Biblatex custom cite macro

Question

I don't really understand how to use macros, but this would be a good way to learn. Currently, I simply use \cite, which prints Author, Year. When I have this in a sentence, I want the year to be in brackets, so it looks like Author (Year),

I can do this manually with

\citeauthor{author} (\citeyear{author}), conducted a detailed study on different methods of...

But this would be a drag to type out every time. How would I create a macro such as \citeintext{author} that would do all that for me?

Answer 1

With the basic author-year style, there are two main commands:

\textcite{key}
\parencite{key}

The former is for textual citations, the latter for parenthetical ones:

... as we see in the fundamental book by \textcite{key1}. Some developments
have appeared recently \parencite{key2}.

will appear something like

… as we see in the fundamental book by Author (1990). Some developments have appeared recently (Scholar, 2012).