Chicago/APA author-date notes

[bdarcus]

Chicago

• year suffixes can only be used for single-author works (15.20); multi authors are disambiguated using names and'/or short titles (I didn't realize this; will need to think on how to address it)
• et al. is italicized in bib, not in text (recent refactor should make this easy)
• sometimes formatting will vary depending on presence of months or dates; there's no way to achieve this here without a parameter outside the templates.

APA:

• only ever use et al when the "others" are more than one (see also, which includes a link to a biblatex issue on this, which reminds me Borrow from biblatex #64), since et al. is in fact plural (with recent refactor of contributors, this should be straightforward; can incorporate it when expanding disambiguation support); see Brenton's response, which recommends ignoring this rule
• "and" conjunction on names is different for narrative and parenthetical citations (I was aware of this, but haven't implemented it yet, since I haven't gotten to citations yet)

[bwiernik]

Personally, I don't think that the "et al" rule from APA should be implemented.

See citation-style-language/schema#431 (comment)

[bdarcus]

Yeah, I saw your response, and am not planning to.

Though it probably wouldn't be difficult to in this model/codebase.