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I need to switch from APA citation to Chicago author-date. One thing that I couldn't find is how to cite within parentheses with other text, for example like this: (see James 2013 for an introduction)
In APA I could use \nptextcite to omit the parentheses but I couldn't find something similar for the biblatex-chicago package. Does anyone know a solution?
As far as I am aware, unlike APA style, Chicago style does not demand a different for citations inside and outside of a pair of parentheses. This distinction is something characteristic of APA style.
So the 'equivalent' of biblatex-apa's \nptextcite for biblatex-chicago is probably just \cite: That will give you a citation without parentheses.
\documentclass[british]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[authordate, backend=biber]{biblatex-chicago}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\begin{document}
(see \cite{sigfridsson} for an introduction)
\printbibliography
\end{document}
If you are already heavily using \nptextcite in your paper and don't want to switch the command in case you go back to biblatex-apa, you can add
\newcommand*{\nptextcite}{\cite}
\newcommand*{\nptextcites}{\cites}
to your preamble.
\nptextcitenecessary in the first place), so you could probably just use\cite. – moewe May 2 '19 at 10:10