APA 6th edition style

adegroo4

Why does only one author show in each reference listed in the bibliography? It seems to me that APA 6th edition still requires multiple authors to be listed when referencing a journal article.

adamsmith

Zotero follows APA 6th ed. rules exactly: It list up to seven authors and for more than seven lists the first six, followed by ... and the last author.
Double-check your data and if you're using Zotero provide more details. If you're not using Zotero contact the support for your reference manager.

adegroo4

I am using Zotero to create a bibliography in APA 6th edition style. When I create a bibliography by right clicking the title of article in the center column, create bibliography from selected item, select style, then copy to clipboard, the pasted bibliography in MS Word only shows the first author. What am I doing wrong?

adamsmith

This works - e.g. this is what I get doing exactly that:
Yabe, H., Asai, R., Hiruma, T., Sutoh, T., Koyama, S., Kakigi, R., … Kaneko, S. (2004). Sound perception affected by nonlinear variation of accuracy in memory trace. Neuroreport, 15(18), 2813–2817.

Double check that your item actually has multiple authors in Zotero - (and they have to be "Author" not "Contributor"). Depending on where you got it from, the data may be wrong or incomplete. Also make sure that you have the latest version of the APA style by reinstalling it from the style repository:
http://www.zotero.org/styles
(though that's less likely to be the problem. I strongly suspect something is wrong in your data).

adegroo4

I did the entire list and find some journals show one author on a two author journal and some two.
Is this caused by Zotero or the journal source?

adamsmith

where did you import the data from? It's more likely a problem on the journal side than on Zotero, but I'd need to see the source.

adegroo4

Got it... google scholar seems to give a proper biblio to Zotero - fixed all the ones I had problems with.

As far as I understand, apa 6th edition requires that my annotations in an annotated bibliography must be indented two spaces more than the second and subsequent lines of the reference listing (the first line has the hanging indent)... but I can't figure out how to do this on MS Word 2007. Could you help me out with this?

adamsmith

I'd still be curious about the wrong data - where was that from?

Can't help much with Word, sorry.

DWL-SDCA

There are two ways to get a hanging indent with MS Word. 1) use the (lower) slide control on the top ruler. 2) You can set a hanging indent using a style setting for the reference list or bibliography section -- you will need to make an adjustment to the paragraph controls).

Please reply to the question about the source that gave you problems with incomplete author names. That sort of issue is important beyond this immediate discussion.