Only cite the year, and the year has parentheses around it

Question

I am so new to Latex and biblatex.

Here is the problem. \usepackage[style=apa,sortcites=true,sorting=nyt,backend=biber]{biblatex}

my goal is like

(1964)

it only has year and no any authors but, with current command, I only got

Gouldner et al., (1964)

or

1964

or

(Gouldner et al., 1964)

So, is there any way for me to get it?

Answer 1

Many biblatex styles define a starred version of some of their commands that omits the name part of the citation. This is usually the go-to command if you have mentioned the author name manually somewhere and only need the label part of the citation.

If you want to print the publication year, there is \citeyear (which normally does not include any disambiguation letters, but curiously does with biblatex-apa).

\documentclass[american]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}

\usepackage[backend=biber, style=apa]{biblatex}

\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\begin{document}
Lorem \autocite{sigfridsson}

Lorem \parencite{sigfridsson}

Lorem \textcite{sigfridsson}

Lorem \nptextcite{sigfridsson}

Lorem \cite{sigfridsson}


ipsum \autocite*{sigfridsson}

ipsum \parencite*{sigfridsson}

ipsum \textcite*{sigfridsson}

ipsum \nptextcite*{sigfridsson}

ipsum \cite{sigfridsson}


dolor \citeyear{sigfridsson}


\printbibliography
\end{document}