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I would like to use author-year citation but its length can be distracting for the reader. I still want to mention author names and dates explicitly because this shows the chronological progress of the literature. Thus, I would like to place the author-year citation to the left with (say) 2mm margin where each reference being numbered on its own line.

documentclass[aspectratio=169, xcolor={x11names}]{beamer}



usecolortheme{seahorse}

useoutertheme{miniframes}

usefonttheme[onlylarge]{structurebold}

useinnertheme{inmargin}



newlength{widthTextMarginLeft}

setlength{widthTextMarginLeft}{1.5mm}

newlength{widthTextMarginRight}

setlength{widthTextMarginRight}{2mm}

setbeamersize{text margin left=widthTextMarginLeft, text margin right=widthTextMarginRight}

newlength{widthSideBar}

setlength{widthSideBar}{0.3paperwidth}

setbeamersize{sidebar width left=widthSideBar, sidebar width right=0cm}



        % ===== Custom margin codes for pagewide frames =====

% BEGIN_FOLD



            % Set margins

            newlength{widthTextMarginLeftPageWide}

            setlength{widthTextMarginLeftPageWide}{5mm}

            newlength{widthTextMarginRightPageWide}

            setlength{widthTextMarginRightPageWide}{5mm}



            % Command to change margins for a page wide

            makeatletter

            newcommand{framePageWide}{

                    defGm@lmargin{widthTextMarginLeftPageWide}%

                    defGm@rmargin{widthTextMarginRightPageWide}%

                    textwidth=dimexprpaperwidth-Gm@lmargin-Gm@rmarginrelax

                    hsizetextwidth

                    columnwidthtextwidth

                    setlength{linewidth}{textwidth}

                    hoffset=dimexpr-beamer@leftsidebar+Gm@lmargin-widthTextMarginLeftrelax % IMPORTANT: widthTextMarginLeft is not to be changed to widthTextMarginLeftPageWide

                                        }

            makeatother



% END_FOLD



usepackage{natbib}



hypersetup{citecolor=SlateBlue2, citebordercolor=SlateBlue2, 

    linkcolor=DodgerBlue3, linkbordercolor=DodgerBlue3, urlcolor=Blue1, colorlinks=true}





begin{document}





begin{frame}



    Cite cite{wu2017,MRITS-Grant2014,earnest2015}



    Cite textsuperscript{color{SlateBlue2} 1,} textsuperscript{color{SlateBlue2} 2,} textsuperscript{color{SlateBlue2} 3}



end{frame}





{framePageWide



begin{frame}[allowframebreaks=0.9]{Referencing}







bibliographystyle{elsarticle-harv}



bibliography{sample_margin}



end{frame}



}







end{document}

Contents of the .bib file

@book{earnest2015,

  title={Wind Power Technology},

  author={Joshua Earnest},

  year={2015},

  publisher={PHI Learning}

}



@techreport{MRITS-Grant2014,

     title = {{Report in the Matter of Integration and Transmission Study for the Future Renewable Energy Standard}},

     author = {Grant},

     group = {Minnesota Department of Commerce},

     year = {2014},

     institution = {Minnesota Department of Commerce},

     month = {Nov},

     Date-Added = {2014},

     Date-Modified = {2014}

}



@ARTICLE{wu2017,

  title={{Assessing Impact of Renewable Energy Integration on System Strength Using Site-Dependent Short Circuit Ratio}},

  author={Wu, Di and Li, Gangan and Javadi, Milad and Malyscheff, Alexander M and Hong, Mingguo and Jiang, John Ning},

  journal={IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy},

  year={2017},

  publisher={IEEE}

}

Some starting point, but you'll have to make sure yourself, that you only use one inmargin command per line.

documentclass[aspectratio=169, xcolor={x11names}]{beamer}



usecolortheme{crane}

useoutertheme{miniframes}

usefonttheme[onlylarge]{structurebold}

useinnertheme{inmargin}



newlength{widthSideBar}

setlength{widthSideBar}{0.3paperwidth}

setbeamersize{sidebar width left=widthSideBar, sidebar width right=0cm}



usepackage{natbib}



usepackage{filecontents}

begin{filecontents*}{jobname.bib}

@book{earnest2015,

  title={Wind Power Technology},

  author={Joshua Earnest},

  year={2015},

  publisher={PHI Learning}

}



@techreport{MRITS-Grant2014,

     title = {{Report in the Matter of Integration and Transmission Study for the Future Renewable Energy Standard}},

     author = {Grant},

     group = {Minnesota Department of Commerce},

     year = {2014},

     institution = {Minnesota Department of Commerce},

     month = {Nov},

     Date-Added = {2014},

     Date-Modified = {2014}

}



@ARTICLE{wu2017,

  title={{Assessing Impact of Renewable Energy Integration on System Strength Using Site-Dependent Short Circuit Ratio}},

  author={Wu, Di and Li, Gangan and Javadi, Milad and Malyscheff, Alexander M and Hong, Mingguo and Jiang, John Ning},

  journal={IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy},

  year={2017},

  publisher={IEEE}

}

end{filecontents*}



makeatletter

newcommand{inmargin}[1]{beamer@putleft{cite{#1}}{2.5ex}vspace*{-baselineskip}}

makeatother





begin{document}





begin{frame}



    inmargin{MRITS-Grant2014}Cite textsuperscript{color{SlateBlue2} 1,}linebreakinmargin{wu2017}Cite textsuperscript{color{SlateBlue2} 2,}





end{frame}



begin{frame}[allowframebreaks=0.9]{Referencing}

bibliographystyle{elsarticle-harv}

bibliography{jobname}

end{frame}



end{document}