Capitalization of book titles with book sections (APA 6/ed)

nigelcaplan
I'm working with a long bibliography in APA 6/ed format, and I have a glitch I haven't seen before. Most book chapters are correctly formatted (the chapter title and book title both appear in sentence case), but in a small number of references, Zotero seems to have overruled the correct sentence-case for the book title in my database and has capitalized it.

Here are two references back to back -- the first is incorrect; the second is fine:

Brisk, M. E., & Zisselberbger, M. (2010). “We’ve let them in on the secret”: Using SFL theory to improve the teaching of writing to bilingual learners. In T. Lucas (Ed.), Teacher Preparation for Linguistically Diverse Classrooms: A Resource for Teacher Educators (pp. 111–126). New York: Routledge.

Brooks, L., & Swain, M. (2009). Languaging in collaborative writing: Creation of and response to expertise. In A. Mackey & C. Polio (eds.), Multiple perspectives on interaction: Second language research in honor of Susan M. Gass (pp. 58–89). New York: Routledge.

In both entries in my database, the book title is in sentence case.

(I am using Zotero 3.0.11 FF plugin w/ Write n Cite in Word 2010)

Thanks for any help you can provide.
  • adamsmith
    something odd is going on - note that the (eds.) label in the second citation is wrong - it should be (Eds.)
    Try reinstalling the APA style from the repository, and then, in your Word Doc, change to a different style and back.
  • thulslander
    I am having this same issue and I do not understand the suggestion to reinstall from repository. If this is the fix, please provide additional information. I have tried changing style to something other than APA and then back again, but it did not correct the issue.
  • adamsmith
    go to zotero.org/styles and re-install the APA style.
    See here for additional instructions: http://www.zotero.org/support/styles#installing_additional_styles .
    You probably still have to switch to a different style and back in your document afterwards.
  • nigelcaplan
    Thanks -- this almost fixed the problem, but for some reason I'm still getting (eds) not (Eds) in some references, but not others! (#2, below). At least the title caps are right. Any other tweaks?

    Carkin, G., Dodson-Knight, S., Gerard Finger, A., Rodriguez Spence, S., Caplan, N. A., & Trupin, J. (2009). Reader’s theater: Turbo-charged language acquisition. In S. Rilling, S. Rilling, & M. Dantas-Whitney (Eds.), Authenticity in the language classroom and beyond: Adult learners. Alexandria, VA: TESOL.

    Ellis, N. (2009). The psycholinguistics of the interactionist approach. In A. Mackey & C. Polio (eds.), Multiple perspectives on interaction: Second language research in honor of Susan M. Gass (pp. 11–40). New York: Routledge.

    Rothery, J. (1996). Making changes: Developing an educational linguistics. In R. Hasan & G. Williams (Eds.), Literacy in society (pp. 86–123). Harlow, England: Longman.

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