Chicago/APA author-date notes

bdarcus commented 11 months ago

Chicago

year suffixes can only be used for single-author works (15.20); multi authors are disambiguated using names and'/or short titles (I didn't realize this; will need to think on how to address it)
et al. is italicized in bib, not in text (recent refactor should make this easy)
sometimes formatting will vary depending on presence of months or dates; there's no way to achieve this here without a parameter outside the templates.

~only ever use et al when the "others" are more than one (see also, which includes a link to a biblatex issue on this, which reminds me #64), since et al. is in fact plural (with recent refactor of contributors, this should be straightforward; can incorporate it when expanding disambiguation support);~ see Brenton's response, which recommends ignoring this rule
"and" conjunction on names is different for narrative and parenthetical citations (I was aware of this, but haven't implemented it yet, since I haven't gotten to citations yet)

bwiernik commented 11 months ago

Personally, I don't think that the "et al" rule from APA should be implemented.

bdarcus commented 11 months ago

Yeah, I saw your response, and am not planning to.

Though it probably wouldn't be difficult to in this model/codebase.