Incorrect Automatic Formatting APA 7th Edition Bibliography

olly3661 · 2025-09-16T15:57:41+00:00

Hey guys, I'm not sure if this is just a me problem or whether other people are experiencing this, but the formatting for the Bibliography for APA 7th Edition is wrong. Paper titles are automatically inserted in Title case if the paper saved was already written in Title case, not Sentence case. Can we have a feature which automatically converts the titles of papers to sentence case in the bibliography so I don't have to go through and do each one manually?

dstillman · 2025-09-16T15:59:49+00:00

No, you need to store them in sentence case. Zotero can help you do the one-time conversion, but you need to check the results and correct proper nouns.

https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/sentence_casing

olly3661 · 2025-09-16T16:29:36+00:00

any way to do this en masse? I have thousands of citations.

dstillman · 2025-09-16T20:50:34+00:00

That's the point — it's not something that can be done en masse, because you have to correct proper nouns. Zotero can't do that for you.

But you also only need to fix items that you'll actually be citing, not every item you add to your library. (Also, whether items have sentence-cased titles by default depends on where you're importing data from.)