Incorrect bibliography for books

Asker

Whenever I cite a book (with page numbers) in the text, it shows up in the bibliography like this:

Title. In Part of Title (cursive).
For example: Benatar, D. (2006). Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence. In Better Never to Have Been. Oxford University Press.

This happens even if I delete the short title for the book in the Zotero library.

How can I fix it?

damnation

This is not a "book", but a "chapter" which are two distinct item types.

If you are indeed wanting to cite the book this chapter is contained in "Better Never to Have Been", then you can:
a) just change the item type to book
b) duplicate the item and THEN change the item type to book.

Asker

No, the item type is book and was added as such to the library, but it comes out like a chapter (kind of - the full book title is in place of what would be the chapter title) in the bibliography.

damnation

What do you have in the "title" field? If it contains "In Better Never to Have Been" then you'd need to remove that manually as it's just incorrect metadata.

Asker

I have the full title of the book which is "Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence" in the title field, nothing else.

damnation

Which citation style is this? then I'll have a look if there's something going on with the style.

Asker

The same thing happens for every book I cite.

Asker

APA7

damnation

APA7 certainly works correctly for books, so there is something else going on.

In text: (Isaacson, 2011, pp. 244–252)
Bibliography: Isaacson, W. (2011). Steve Jobs. Simon & Schuster.

Is there anything in the extra field?
Can you try in a fresh document and take a screenshot of the document with the citation and bibliography and the Zotero entry also?

Asker

There was something in the extra field! I removed it, and now it's correct :D