In Text Referencing

riyd67

Hi all

I have just recently moved from EndNote to Zotero and find it amazing. I am also using APA 7th. While Zotero is great, I am struggling with a couple of things. When I am starting a sentence using an author followed by the year, Zotero puts it as (Bachus, 2020) states that ...... Instead it should be Bachus (2020) states that ...... In EndNote, you can right-click to change the reference format, but I cannot work out how to do this in Zotero. Also, Zotero wants to put the reference on the right side of the full stop instead of inside the sentence. If I insert it on the left side, Grammarly picks it up as an error.

Any help would be fantastic!

Roger

dstillman

Customize the citation and use Omit Author. See "Narrative Citations with Omit Author” there.

enozkan

Zotero places the citation wherever you put it - inside the sentence or outside.

With author-date style citations, I have not seen full-stops inside the parentheses. For example, https://writing.wisc.edu/handbook/documentation/docchicago/author-date/

So, ignore Grammarly. But for some reason, you wanted to do it that way, use the Suffix option (see Prefix and Suffix) in the citation bubble with a .:

https://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_usage#customizing_cites

riyd67

Thank you @dstillman your suggestion has worked. @enozkan I think you may have misread my text but thankyou anyway.

All is good now thanks.

Roger