I have to spend so much time correcting Zotero mistakes. Book / article title capitalization is not correct and the italic portion is never italicized.
Zotero's APA styles are extremely accurate, so this is likely some sort of misunderstanding.
First, nothing gets "saved" in APA format — data just gets saved to your library, and then later it's formatted in whatever style you select in your document.
Can you provide some screenshots of the bibliography entries you're seeing and what you expect, along with a screenshot of the data as entered in Zotero? See adamsmith's answer below.
I see the error, which the user can not control, is from Zotero DOI imports. If the DOI imports the title of the article with all capitals, then creating the bibliography is guaranteed to be wrong. i.e., Zotero is not forcing the accurate format for titles.
Please Add any of these DOIs, then create the bibliography. You will get what you see after the import.
You can look at the Linter for Zotero plugin which has an option to force (pseudo) sentence case on import -- but even without it, you don't have to change multiple errors per entry -- there's a sentence case option on right-click as the linked article explains.
(And the place to fix this is obviously Zotero, not the bibliography, so you only do this once for any given work, not every time you generate a bibliography)
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First, nothing gets "saved" in APA format — data just gets saved to your library, and then later it's formatted in whatever style you select in your document.
Can you provide some screenshots of the bibliography entries you're seeing and what you expect, along with a screenshot of the data as entered in Zotero?See adamsmith's answer below.https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/sentence_casing
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https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/italics_in_word_bibliographies
Please Add any of these DOIs, then create the bibliography. You will get what you see after the import.
10.1007/s11245-024-10078-z
10.1007/s40593-024-00454-6
10.1080/14746700.2018.1455264
10.5430/ijhe.v6n5p26