Inquiry: Support for "author-in-text" citation style

[tcztzy]

Hi,

First of all, thank you for creating and maintaining this incredibly useful plugin for MkDocs. It's been a great help for managing citations in my projects.

I'm writing to inquire about the possibility of supporting an "author-in-text" citation style, often referred to as author-date or APA style (e.g., from @smith2025 found that bla to Smith et. al. (2025) found that bla).¹

I've been looking through the source code and the documentation, and from what I can see, the currently supported styles for bib are inline (e.g., (Smith et. al., 2025)) and footnote. I couldn't find an option to generate author-in-text citations directly.

Is this feature something that is already available and I might have missed, or is it something that could be considered for a future release? Being able to cite directly with the author's name in the text would be a fantastic addition.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Footnotes

1. https://pandoc.org/demo/example33/8.20-citation-syntax.html#citation-syntax ↩