public string GenerateInlineCitation(string selectedText)
{
string[] allReferences = GetAllReferences(selectedText);
if (allReferences.Length == 0)
{
return(null);
}
string finalReference = "";
int workingWithReferenceNumber = 0;
foreach (string reference in allReferences)
{
workingWithReferenceNumber++;
ReferenceObject referenceParts = GetReferenceParts(reference);
if (referenceParts == null)
{
continue;
}
if (referenceParts.authors.Length == 0)
{
continue;
}
if (referenceParts.useEtAl)
{
finalReference += referenceParts.authors[0] + " et al.";
}
else
{
foreach (string author in referenceParts.authors)
{
finalReference += author + " and ";
}
finalReference = finalReference.Substring(0, finalReference.Length - 5); //chop of the last and
}
if ((allReferences.Length - 1) == workingWithReferenceNumber)
{
finalReference += " (" + referenceParts.date + ") and ";
}
else
{
finalReference += " (" + referenceParts.date + "), ";
}
}
finalReference = finalReference.Trim();
if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(finalReference))
{
finalReference = finalReference.Substring(0, finalReference.Length - 1); //chop off last ,
}
return(finalReference);
}
public string GenerateEndCitation(string selectedText)
{
string[] allReferences = GetAllReferences(selectedText);
if (allReferences.Length == 0)
{
return(null);
}
string finalReference = "";
foreach (string reference in allReferences)
{
ReferenceObject referenceParts = GetReferenceParts(reference);
if (referenceParts == null)
{
continue;
}
if (referenceParts.authors.Length == 0)
{
continue;
}
if (referenceParts.useEtAl)
{
finalReference += referenceParts.authors[0] + " et al.";
}
else
{
foreach (string author in referenceParts.authors)
{
finalReference += author + "&";
}
finalReference = finalReference.Substring(0, finalReference.Length - 1); //chop of the last &
}
//add the date
finalReference += ", " + referenceParts.date + "; ";
}
if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(finalReference))
{
finalReference = finalReference.Trim();
finalReference = finalReference.Substring(0, finalReference.Length - 1);
finalReference = "(" + finalReference + ")";
}
return(finalReference);
}
private ReferenceObject GetReferenceParts(string selectedText)
{
string referenceText = GetReferenceText(selectedText);
ReferenceObject referenceParts = new ReferenceObject();
if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(referenceText))
{
return(null);
}
//find the date
var indexOfLastComma = referenceText.LastIndexOf(",");
string possibleDateString = referenceText.Substring(indexOfLastComma + 1);
int result = -1;
int.TryParse(possibleDateString, out result);
if (result > -1)
{
if (result.ToString().Length == 4)
{
referenceParts.date = result.ToString();
}
}
//chop off the date
referenceText = referenceText.Replace(possibleDateString, "");
referenceParts.referenceText = referenceText;
//split the authors
referenceParts.authors = referenceText.Split(new char[] { ',' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
if (referenceParts.authors.Length > 1)
{
referenceParts.useEtAl = true;
}
return(referenceParts);
}