"Series" field not used by the style for "Book Section"?

cyberace

Hi,

I'm wondering how Zotero deals with a book chapter in a volume in a book series, as the series title is missing in corresponding bibliography.

For example, I have a reference supposed to be like (APA 6th, according to examples from http://nova.campusguides.com/content.php?pid=114919&sid=992738):

Purchase, H. C., Freeman, E., & Hamer, J. (2012). An exploration of visual complexity. In P. Cox, B. Plimmer, & P. Rodgers (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Vol. 7352. Diagrammatic representation and inference (pp. 200–213). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. Retrieved from http://www.springerlink.com/index/10.1007/978-3-642-31223-6_22

but it turned out to be like:

Purchase, H. C., Freeman, E., & Hamer, J. (2012). An exploration of visual complexity. In P. Cox, B. Plimmer, & P. Rodgers (Eds.), Diagrammatic Representation and Inference (Vol. 7352, pp. 200–213). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. Retrieved from http://www.springerlink.com/index/10.1007/978-3-642-31223-6_22

I tried some other styles too, but the problem still existed.
I'm new to Zotero, could someone tell me how to fix it? Thanks!

aurimas

Just to be clear, you are using APA 6th edition style here (not just referencing it), correct?

adamsmith

I've looked in the APA guide on series and it's not very clear what they want. The manual has one example along the lines of the one you cite, but they don't have series cited in any other examples, though many of those books are, in fact, parts of series. The manual also says to cite the series editor, but not the book editor.
My best interpretation of this would be to treat the entire part you have in red as the book title and include it in the title field.

cyberace

Thanks for your replies!

TO aurimas: Yes, I'm using APA 6th edition style. It is my bad have not made this indication highlighted. :)

TO adamsmith: I think the problem might be the treatment of "Volume". When encountering with such a reference as I described, the value of the "Volume" field is supposed to be the volume number of the book title in the series. However, it seems the style has seen it as the volume number of the book section in the book, but, in fact, the book itself consists of only one volume.

So, I guess there might be two formatted right alternatives:

1. The first example I showed.

2. Just completely ignores the "Series" and "Volume", and the result should looks like:
Purchase, H. C., Freeman, E., & Hamer, J. (2012). An exploration of visual complexity. In P. Cox, B. Plimmer, & P. Rodgers (Eds.), Diagrammatic Representation and Inference (pp. 200–213). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. Retrieved from http://www.springerlink.com/index/10.1007/978-3-642-31223-6_22

adamsmith

The volume in Zotero (and CSL) for both books and book chapters always refers to a volume within a multivolume book. What you seem to be talking about is the series number (which Zotero also has a field for).

edit: that's also how Zotero imports this. So I'm content with what we're doing here.