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Omitting author names

When an author’s name occurs naturally within a sentence, you may not want to repeat it within an in-text citation.

To omit an author’s name:

Click within the in-text citation in the Word document, then select The Edit & Manage Citations Window will appear
Click the drop down arrow next to Default (bottom frame in this window), select Exclude Author, then .

Example

The profession of paleontology looks at history, at the narrative of the rocks and the bones. It cannot turn into a laboratory science. Barlow (2001) contends that people who don’t understand paleontology try to make it physics.