APA 6th ed. Citation Help?

kovalchuk71

Hello, my professor needs me to convert a bunch of references into APA format 6th edition and I need some help. Here is one of the citations:

Batson, C. D. 1998. Altruism and prosocial behavior. In D. T. Gilbert, S. T. Fiske, & G. Lindzey (Eds.), The handbook of social psychology, vol. 2, 282-316. New York: McGraw-Hill.

First, this is MLA correct? Can someone help me convert this so I have an example to look at? The authors are tripping me up. I usually use MLA when I cite, so this is a little different. Thanks!

adamsmith

no, this isn't MLA - in fact, it's a style pretty close to APA, but I don't quite recognize it.

To get an example in APA, just input the data into Zotero and create a bibliography using APA - that's what Zotero is for.

hrabia_kirke

Hey guys I have a question regarding APA style in Zotero. What Zotero does is to use capital letters for every word of the title (e. g. Inclusive Altruism Born of Suffering: The Relationship Between Adversity and Prosocial Attitudes and Behavior Toward Disadvantaged Outgroups) which is at odds with the apa manual! Can anyone tell me if I'm doing something wrong or is it a Zotero-related problem?

adamsmith

For the APA style, Zotero just prints whatever is in the title field. It's not possible to auto-convert titles to sentence case reliably (mainly bc of proper nouns), so we don't do that.

We recommend you store/convert all your titles in sentence case. For the styles that _do_ require title case Zotero (MLA, Chicago Manual...) Zotero can and does auto-convert.

To facilitate manually converting to sentence case, you can right-click on a title and select "Transform Text --> Sentence case"
You will still have to check for proper nouns.

hrabia_kirke

Thanks!