APA Bibliography for URL with n.d. adds extra period

eugenesr

[New user] When citing a website, I get what I expect in the text:

(“University of Delaware: DRC-Disaster Research Center,” n.d.)

but I see this in the bibliography:

University of Delaware: DRC-Disaster Research Center. (n.d.). . Retrieved July 23, 2011, from http://www.udel.edu/DRC/

Note the extraneous period between "(n.d.)." and "Retrieved"

HOWEVER: when I cite something else with no date, such as:

(Phillips, n.d.) what I see in the biblio. is the following:

Phillips, B. (n.d.). Disaster recovery. Boca Raton: CRC Press. with NO extra period so the problem seems to be limited to URLs?

Also, I am new at APA, but is the colon after the City: Publisher correct? I probably missed that detail when 'learning' APA.

Thanks, Eugene

fbennett

For a webpage item, with data similar to your first example, I get this as bibliography output in the APA style:

Doe Inc. (n.d.). Retrieved June 1, 1965, from http://example.com/

What type do you have set on the Delaware item?

(Edit: sorry, I see you indicated it's a web page in your post.)

fbennett

Can anyone reproduce this?

adamsmith

I fixed this on the repository recently. Update the APA style by re-installing from the Zotero repository and it should work correctly. Let us know if that's not the case and I'll take another look.

eugenesr

Adam Smith & FBennett,

Thank you for your advice. How do I find the "Zotero repository?" was going to be my original question, but then I found it, hidden as it is, in the Developer's section. (not being a developer, I would not normally look there, but as it wasn't in "Documentation" I looked elsewhere.

Maybe some more explicit links for we, the uninitiated?

Thanks again,
Eugene Rothman

adamsmith

It's the first hit when you google [zotero repository] or [zotero styles] and there is a link to it from the cite section of the Zotero preferences as well as, I believe, from the word processor plugin, i.e. in most scenarios where you interact with Zotero styles.
It's also not in any developer's section - just to make sure, we're talking about
www.zotero.org/styles
I guess I could have included a link in my post, but most people looking for citation style related issues are aware of it so it didn't occur to me.

adamsmith

Also, when you search the Zotero documentation for [zotero repository] you get this:
http://www.zotero.org/search/#documentation/zotero%20repository
the first hit of which describes the repository and includes a link. So I really can't see how we can make this much easier to find.

eugenesr

No, you are correct... I just looked at the menus, rather that running a search. Sorry.
But, where I did find it was here:
http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles
Halfway down the page there was a like to the repository.

No worries, though.... all roads lead to styles I guess.

Eugene