bib_metadata {knitcitations}

get the full metadata for a citation / bibliographic object

Description

get the full metadata for a citation / bibliographic object

Usage

bib_metadata(x, BibEntry = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

x

a query or citation identifer, as in citep/citet, except that it must be a single query, not a list of multiple queries.

BibEntry

logical. Coerce to RefManageR's BibEntry type?

...

additional arguments to query (see RCrossRef)

Details

This function is called internally by citet and citep, but is also made available in the namespace for a user wanting to return the full citation object directly.

Value

a BibEntry (or bibentry, if requested) object with the required citation information.