Generate Reference ID — generate_reference

Creates a compact reference identifier by combining the publication year, first author's last name, and the first three words of the title in PascalCase.

Usage

generate_reference_id(date, author, title)

Arguments

date: Integer or character. Publication year (e.g. 2018).
author: Character. Semicolon-separated author list in "Last, First" format. Only the first author's last name is used (truncated to 10 alphanumeric characters).
title: Character. Publication title. The first three words are extracted and converted to PascalCase.

Value

Character string with format YearLastnameTitleWords, e.g. "2018Last1AStudyOf".

Examples

generate_reference_id(
  date = 2018,
  author = "Last1, First1; Last2, First2",
  title = "A study of recent developments in the field"
)
#> [1] "2018Last1AStudyOf"
# Returns: "2018Last1AStudyOf"