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Omitting the year of publication

When a year of publication occurs naturally within a sentence, you may not want to repeat it within the in-text citation.

To omit the year of publication:

Click within the citation in the Word document, then select the Edit Citation icon . The Edit Citation Window will appear
Click the box to the left of Exclude year , then .

Example

….to fly by gliding, others argue that the motion of lunging for prey became a flight stroke. New fossils from China, as reported in 2002 research, include a downy, 125 million-year-old, earthbound dromaeosaur may add clues (Murphy, Andersen et al.).