Hi - I am experiencing a problem with APA formatting using Zotero. I had imported all my old references from Endnote into Zotero, but the space is missing between the author's first and middle initials after the import procedure (i.e., Author, A. B. becomes Author, A.B.). Unfortunately, Zotero seems to not realize that those are two separate initials: When I insert a bibliography, the author shows up as Author, A. (i.e., missing middle initial) and not Author, A. B. Moreover, if I have one citation for Author, A.B. and one for Author, A. B. in the text of the paper, Zotero thinks they are two separate people and therefore inserts the initials of the author in the text citation. Any possible fixes for this? I'd prefer not to have to manually add the space in the authors' names for 700 imported citations! Thanks much!

I'm happy to change the style, except the previous consensus was to leave issue numbers in. Can we perhaps have more votes on this issue?

I have noticed another issue with Zotero and the APA reference list it outputs. The APA manual 5th edition on page 299 states that the reference list should be double spaced. Zotero outputs it as single space (at least in Word 2007). Do I have something set wrong? If not, can this be changed?

@numa:
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/798/#Item_25
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/4884/

Hi there,

I'm using Zotero 2.0b6.2 and for some reason the APA style implementation doesn't seem to be compliant with the APA guide.

When using either the Word plugin or "chrome://zotero/content/tools/csledit.xul" I get the following results:

Single Citations
(R. Schneider et al., 2006)

Multi Citations
(R. Schneider et al., 2006)

As mentioned by the original post of this entry, the APA style requires up to 5 authors to be listed on the first reference. Maybe a new bug?

Cheers

I agree with trixpan. APA style requires up to 5 authors to be listed on the first reference and only thereafter " author et al, year".

When I tried APA it gave me (Turshen 1999) as in-text citation instead of (Turshen, 1999). How do I format it to display it correctly (without having o use the editor for every entry)?

Also what about on-line documents like university working papers, governement or NGO reports and so? Can we add "Retrieved July 10, 2009 from url" somewhere in the final reference list?

How can I disable Zotero, when using Import to EndNote in Google scholar?

Cheers

Cheers Simon that solved most of the problems.

Hi - just letting you know that your error reports are noted. I don't have an APA manual and I'd prefer to not change the style without a manual, but if nothing happens soon, I'll give it a go.
I noticed you had several issues with APA distributed over several threads. Would you mind collecting them all here so I have them in one place?

@adamsmith

Thanks for monitoring this. Here are the four APA 6th edition issues I've noted, gathered from elsewhere in the forum:

***********Regarding citation for reports in APA 6th ed.:************
Title of report should be italicized, with a parenthetical comment immediately following (without a comma), all in romanized font, that contains three things: the report type, the text “No.” –for number—and a report number
Could it be inserted in the CSL to use the "Report Type" field and "Report Number" field?

Here is the example from page 206 of APA 6th ed.:

Employee Benefit Research Institute. (1992, February). Sources of health insurance and characteristics of the uninsured (Issue Brief No. 123). Washington, DC: Author.

That is, right after italicized title, there is just one space
Then, romanized font
+ Open para "("
+ Report type field
+ the text "No. "
+ Report number field
+ Close para ")"

*********Regarding citation for presentations in APA 6th ed.***************
The title of the presentation should be italicized

**********Regarding citations that include URL and DOI*****************
In APA 6th ed., the DOI information at the very end should not include a period (as seen in the examples, page 198-199, and throughout the book).

The Zotero reference page produced periods at the very end, like this:

Goastellec, G. (2008). Globalization and implementation of an equity norm in higher education: Admission processes and funding framework under scrutiny. PJE. Peabody Journal of Education, 83(1), 71-85. doi: 10.1080/01619560701649174.

Kasa, R. (2008). Aspects of fiscal federalism in higher education cost sharing in Latvia. PJE. Peabody Journal of Education, 83(1), 86-100. doi: 10.1080/01619560701649216.

Student Financial Aid. (2009, September 29). Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved September 26, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_financial_aid.

The periods should not be at the end of these.

*************Regarding citations for dissertations/theses***************
The output for an APA reference for dissertations and theses is not correct according to APA 6th ed.

The title should be italicized (This much is correct in the Zotero-produced reference), but within the same line, without a period or comma delimiter, the type of document is regular, romanized font

There's also the need for a field for the "accession or order number in parantheses at the end". None of the current Zotero 2.x fields output this kind of field. If I knew which one it might read from, I could insert the text how I want it to show up. There is some variation in how the dissertation can be found, so this just needs to be a free-form text field that is reproduced at the correct location at the very end of the reference.

Example:

Author. (YEAR). Building a foundation for evaluation of instruction in higher education and continuing education (Doctoral dissertation). Available from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. (UMI No. #######)

Here's one more curious find:
-Doesn't handle "in press" for the date. For an entry of a report, at least, the automatic citation and reference page skips over the date field completely. Is there alreay a way to handle this?

BTW: just to be sure, the absence of a period occurs with URLs and DOIs, both. Did that get covered?

@adam.

Thanks.

Here's another to add to the request:

APA 6th (I don't know if this has changed) specifies that works by the same author should be ordered with earliest one first. So that makes it count for in the in-text citation too. (APA 6th ed. page 182.

Example:

Upenieks, V. (2003).
Upenieks, V. (2005).

"...as stated in earlier studies (Upenieks, 2003, 2005)."

Cool. I'll test it this morning.

Re: sorting:
I realize I wasn't clear. The challenge with sorting is that Zotero currently sorts things in descending order, from more recent dates to earliest dates, whereas APA v6 manual is asking for ascending order, from earliest to latest.

Example:

Current Zotero output (using "keep sorted" function) which is incorrect:
"...as stated in earlier studies (Upenieks, 2005, 2003, 1999, in press)."
------------------------------
Upenieks, V. (2005).
Upenieks, V. (2003).
Upenieks, V. (1999).
Upenieks, V. (in press).

*** Note: the "in press" text isn't working, but the placement is here.

Correct APA 6:
"...as stated in earlier studies (Upenieks, 1999, 2003, 2005, in press)."
------------------------------
Upenieks, V. (1999).
Upenieks, V. (2003).
Upenieks, V. (2005).
Upenieks, V. (in press).





"...as stated in earlier studies (Upenieks, 2003, 2005)."
------------------------------
Upenieks, V. (2003).
Upenieks, V. (2005).

The thesis/dissertation type works great! Thanks.

1. A couple of details: In the Repository field, could it not prepend the text? I'd like to simply type in that field and WWSIWYG, since the phrasing might change.

2. The Loc. in Archive field needs a period at the end, likewise for the end of the Repository field.

Here is Zotero APA 6th ed. output (using the latest csl you posted):

Calisto, R. S. (1985). Toward a theoretical framework of faculty evaluation in Latin American universities (assessment, reward, professors) (Doctoral dissertation). University of Oregon. Retrieved from Available from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database (UMI No. 7777777)


Corrected:
Calisto, R. S. (1985). Toward a theoretical framework of faculty evaluation in Latin American universities (assessment, reward, professors) (Doctoral dissertation). University of Oregon. Available from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. (UMI No. 7777777).

OK - changing the periods is easy, I actually did this on purpose - could you confirm that the above correction is from the APA manual directly?

I based mine on this
http://langsdale.ubalt.edu/howto/apastyle.htm#dissertations
which is unofficial and may just be wrong, but before I change it back I want to be sure.
Also, is the way the university is displayed correct? I've also seen: (Doctoral Dissertation, Northwestern University, 1988) after the title.

When you say "not prepend" you mean not include "Retrieved from"/"Available from"?
I'd be very reluctant to take that out - I think people should not have to include something like that in their database - it's very unintuitive.
I can tell you how to customize the style for yourself to not include that, though.
Will do that with the next fix.

OK, so the period just at the end of repository, not at the end of the number?
It kind of looks like APA doesn't really know what they are doing here...

The prepend - APA doesn't seem to have a rule on "available" vs. "retrieved" does it?
I can take out the retrieved for the unpublished dissertations, simply by checking for the repository field.
But I'm not willing to make a style that requires the user to hard-code "Retrieved from" etc. into her/his database: What if you want to switch citation style?
As I said, it is easy for you to manually change the style.

I've posted the new style in the repository. Please test and report back here:
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/9298/apa-6th-new-style/

Correct. The period goes after the repository, but not the number. Even though it's in parentheses, I guess they think of it as a doi or url kind of thing.

done

If there is info in the URL field, it will read it and prepend it with "Retrieved from"
e.g.,Retrieved from http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd

yes
and the date rerieved as prescribed by APA.

If there is info in BOTH Repository AND Loc. in Archive, it will read the text from those fields and prepend it with "Available from"
e.g.,
Available from ProQuest Disserations and Theses database. (UMI No. 3351521)

no, it also says retrieved. APA doesn't seem to care between the two - at least I could not find a discernible pattern. And it only checks for repository - it doesn't matter if Loc. in Archive is present or not.

and if there is neither? If it is an unpublished disseration, where would it pull the name of the institution, the city and state, without using any language at all such as "retrieved" or "available"? Simply by having those fields populated in my item entry?

Well the information needs to be in the University field, then it's displayed.
I've decided to always dislpay the university. I may be willing to put in the substantial extra work to take it out, but it's such a useful piece of information and seems so logical to include that, until someone actually complains, I will contend that APA simply wasn't thinking ;-)

But as I said, please continue discussion in the linked thread.