Help! Messed up the code in APA 7

newbieuser745669

Hi everyone,

A very beginner user here. I had an issue with the order of references in parentheses. If there are multiple references, Zotero orders the citations in alphabetical order. I wanted to keep the order that I originally inputted my references in (usually by year, but sometimes also per relevance to the text, etc.)

Based on the instructions I read online, I tried to modify the code and delete a chunk of text between and .
However, I must have deleted a wrong part of the code, as now the issue still persists - but now my bibliography is all jumbled up and not ordered alpabetically!

Please note that I tried to create my own reference style and only modify that, but it did not seem to "download" into the styles list. Therefore, I edited the APA 7 style directly, and this thing happened.

I'm not sure how to redeem the situation. Perhaps if someone could post the whole, functioning code here, I could copypaste that into the APA 7 style editor and then restore normalcy?

Thanks in advance,

Newbie

adamsmith

You can just remove the APA style in the styles tab of your preferences and re-install the style from zotero.org/styles

newbieuser745669

Thank you! That's helpful!
The bibliography now looks right. However, the references within the text are still organised alphabetically, not chronologically.
How can I change this? Thank you.

newbieuser745669

Hi again

Another modification that would work well would be to "never sort" the references. I've always input the references in the order I want them.
Is this somehow possible to change within the APA?
Thank you.

damnation

APA sorts the citations for you. If you delete lines 1644-49 completely, it will not sort them for you and Zotero will leave the order of the citations as you entered them.

adamsmith

(Though do note that the APA manual is very clear that you should sort citations as you sort the bibliography, i.e. alphabetically first)

newbieuser745669

Thank you so much both. I am now trying to do this (even if I know it goes against APA guidelines). Having some trouble navigating to lines 1644-1649. Sorry, but do you know the exact text I should remove?

Currently I get an error message saying that it is not proper XML when I try to delete what I think is on lines 1644-1649.

damnation

The "sort" section that lives within "citation". At the bottom of the style (after all the macros, before the "bibliography" section).