replace p. with : in Author-Date in APA

AnneAnneAnne

Hello. I'm sorry for bothering you. I just uploaded the 6th edition of the APA style. Unfortunately the author-date citation in the text (with page numbers) always looks like
(Schmidt, 2010, p. 3)

How can I change it to just

(Schmidt 2010: 3)?

Thanks a lot for your help. Anne

adamsmith

I wouldn't call that "unfortunately" - (Schmidt, 2010, p. 3) is correct APA - but if you want to change the style to something else
generally have a look here
http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step
, specifically, change

<layout prefix="(" suffix=")" delimiter="; ">
<group delimiter=", ">
<text macro="author-short"/>
<text macro="issued-year"/>
<text macro="citation-locator"/>
</group>
</layout>

to

<layout prefix="(" suffix=")" delimiter="; ">
<group delimiter=": ">
<group delimiter=" ">
<text macro="author-short"/>
<text macro="issued-year"/>
</group>
<text macro="citation-locator"/>
</group>
</layout>

Also, I believe, American Sociological Association does what you want out of the box.

AnneAnneAnne

Dear Adam, thanks for your quick response. That was a big help! Your code works fine!!!!!