An in-text citation is a short marker built from a handful of parts, and every style disagrees about which parts and in what order. Pick a style and a situation, then click chips to assemble the marker one element at a time. When you check it, you get the rule you tripped — not just a red X.
Step 1 · Style
Step 2 · The situation 0 of 11 solved
Step 3 · Build the marker
Click chips below to assemble it.
Ready
Assemble a marker on the left and press Check it. The sentence above updates live, so you can see the citation doing its job inside real prose rather than floating on its own.
The other half · matching reference entry
Every marker you build must point at an entry like this one, and every entry must be pointed at by a marker somewhere in the text. Fail either direction and the reader hits a dead end or a padded list.