How to generate/italicize (APA 6th) all the book titles in the thesis (reference ) correctly?

melissagarden

Dear all,

I wonder if you could help?

The APA 6 manual calls for titles of books/documents to be in italics, but my Zotero is generate them in plain in all my reference list.

I have more than 300 book titles that I need to get them italicize. I wish Zotero could get them updated correctly.

I'm using Zotero 3.0.8 on Win 7, Mircosoft Word 2010.

Please advise.

Many thanks in advance,

Best wishes,
Lisa

Rintze

The "American Psychological Association 6th Edition" CSL style (http://www.zotero.org/styles/apa) style should do that already. You could try reinstalling the style.

melissagarden

Thanks for your reply.

May I ask how can I reinstall the style?
Could you please explain a bit more?

Cheers
Lisa

Rintze

See http://www.zotero.org/support/styles#installing_additional_styles and http://www.zotero.org/styles (look for the "American Psychological Association 6th Edition" style).

melissagarden

Dear Rintze,

I downloaded the new APA 6th from the link you gave me.

My reference list --book titles--were once all italicised for a while. ( it was great!!) However, when I updated the reference list again. The italicised effect disappeared.

Do you know why? How can it maintain the italicised effect?

Please advise,

Lisa

adamsmith

There is s Word bug that affects italics at times - if your first reference has a lot of italics that can mess up the whole bibliography - try adding a fake item - a journal article, e.g., so it wouldn't have much in terms of italics - with an author like "Paul Aardvark" that would be at the beginning of the bibliography. That should fix this and you can delete it at the end.

melissagarden

It works!!! Hallelujah!

Well done, Adam.

Thank you very much for your advice:)
It's much appreciated.

Best wishes
Lisa

melissagarden

Dear all,

I have one more question. I wonder if you could help?

The APA 6th basic form of author-date citation is (Surname,year), but my Zotero keeps generate (Frist name, Surname, year) for a few authors.

e.g. the education needs for the 18 per cent students in normal classroom were enormous (Mary Warnock, 2005).-->Wrong

What is an effective way to correct it back to (Warnock, 2005)?

Thanks!!!

Lisa

julien_akten

Hi Lisa,

Did you correct this "First Name" error since August ?
I currently encounter the same problem.

Thanks,

Julien

adamsmith

This was never broken.
are you seeing first names or initials?
If you're seeing initials:
http://www.zotero.org/support/kb/given_name_disambiguation

If you're seeing full first names, you have the name input in Zotero the wrong way. They need to be in the form "Warnock, Mary" in two-field mode (i.e. there should be one single box behind the name that says "Switch to single field" when you hover over it).

julien_akten

Thanks a lot.
I deleted the "given name disambiguation" rule from the citation style.
It fits better now.
Have a nice day.

Julien