Multiple citation with same author
When I make a multiple citation of the same author, but different works, only the page number for the first entry appears, but at the end.
I checked this out in 2 different documents with different authors.
I can edit the citation, put the page numbers in manually, and it works (it even survives a Refresh.
FF 3.0.1
Zotero 1.0.7
XP
Word 2003 plugin
I checked this out in 2 different documents with different authors.
I can edit the citation, put the page numbers in manually, and it works (it even survives a Refresh.
FF 3.0.1
Zotero 1.0.7
XP
Word 2003 plugin
I'm using APA, also, I'm using the set bibliography language to Spanish.
The citation should be (Smith, 2006, pág. 1; Smith, 2005, pág. 2; Smith, 2004, pág. 3), but it ends up:
(Smith, 2006; Smith, 2005, Smith, 2004, pág. 1)
(Smith, 2006; Smith, 2005, Smith, 2004, pág. 1) is clearly wrong. Right now the plugin is not displaying page numbers for the other two books.
However, I am not sure that (Smith, 2006, pág. 1; Smith, 2005, pág. 2; Smith, 2004, pág. 3) is right either.
If these are all the same Smith shouldn't it be. (Smith, 2006, pág. 1; 2005, pág. 2; 2004, pág. 3)?
Can some APA folks confirm what exactly this should look like?
So, to correct my post from yesterday, the citation is coming out as (Smith, 2006, 2005, 2004, pág. 1).
I won't venture to say what it should be, except to say, I'd like the page numbers to be included.
And just to confirm...yes they are all the SAME Smith (John Q. Smith).
Thanks for your patience.
There, I think that's right.
Sorry for the confusion.
http://books.apa.org/books.cfm?id=4200065
If they're all identical, one option would be to just hard-code those strings. The other option would be for users to just switch the bibliography locale to English (which will eventually be made easier in the UI and possibly be a document setting), which would only be useful if someone wanted, for example, a style similar to APA but with localized terms.
Wow, thanks!
Now, who do we contact to change the Spanish version?
Aside from particular words, like "En" instead of "In" or "trad." instead of "trans." for translator, there aren't any differences between the Spanish and English versions. I think the first option is a good one (hard-code the pagination string, for example). In this way we can use the Spanish locale without having to change those words. Thanks!!!!
Example:
What should be (Yoder, n.d., 1908, 1916, 1930) shows up as (Yoder). The bibliography is OK.
If I put n.d. in the date field, it shows up as (Yoder, , 1908, 1916, 1930). (I just discovered this as I was writing this post and checking different permutations. I can live with this for the time being since I can edit the entry and put in n.d.).
The page numbering issue from the original post is still there.
How is this ticket coming? https://www.zotero.org/trac/ticket/1154 can it be amended with this new anomaly?
I'm in crunch time right now with two monographs due in a few days. It would be nice to have this working soon.
Edit:
FF 3.0.4
Word plugin 1.0b3
Zotero 1.0.7.r3709 (Can't wait till 1.5 is stable enough to use with real data!)
I´m with a fellow student right now, and he is having the same problem, and he is encountering it a lot and it´s fairly problematic for him.
Do you think this will be fixed soon? (I mean, it´s not like you have anything else to be doing.)
Does anyone know the conventions on this? Is it acceptable to treat "n.d." as the equivalent of zero (which produces a sort such as that in arggem's example)? Or should undated items be placed last in a sorted list of dates always (which I have seen suggested for bibliographies)? Or do different rules apply in different contexts?
Could use some guidance, if anyone out there has experience with this, or access to style guidelines that cover this.
This is the answer I got when I posted the question on the APA Blog