export hearing wrong style

kbbeen

Hi,

I have a citation for a congressional hearing, my export style is set to APA 7 in Settings/Export, and in Settings/Cite when I look at Style Preview it looks correct, which is like this (with the title in italics):

Debt Ceiling Increase: Hearing before the Committee on Finance, US Senate 85th Congress (1958).

But when I export I get this:

@misc{noauthor_debt_1958,
title = {Debt {Ceiling} {Increase}},
year = {1958},
}

which can't be right because it doesn't have the committee, etc.

Seems like Zotero must know how to do this, since the preview is correct. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Thank you!

adamsmith

Zotero isn't a bibtex manager and bibtex doesn't have an item type for hearing nor a field for committee, etc.
What exactly are you trying to do?

kbbeen

Sorry, yeah, I realized this was a bibtex problem and not a Zotero problem after I submitted it.

Anyway, for the record, I have a workaround that mostly works. Ideally, I want to store the item in Zotero in a way that it will export to a bib file that latex can import and format like this, where everything before the comma is the title and in italics:

Debt Ceiling Increase: Hearings before the US Senate Committee on Finance, 85th Congress (1958).

My workaround is to store it as item type Book, with everything before the comma in the Title field and "85th Congress" in the Publisher field. It puts the publisher after the date, which is not exactly what I wanted, but it's good enough for me right now.

Thanks!