APA: Zotero seems to cite wrong.. (u.a. insted of et al.)
Hello everybody
First question: Is it possible, that Zotero switches to the german abbreviation "u.a." instead of "et al." because i'm writing in german? And if so, how can i change that?
Second question: If I remember this right, in APA style, if there are up to 6 authors you cite them all the first time and then you use "et al." for further citations (if there are more than 3 authors of course). Zotero starts using "et al." (well actually "u.a.") from 5 authors on. And then again: How can I change that?
Does anyone have the same problem? It'd be great to get some help from you guys, because it's really annoying to always correct the citations especially when writing a pretty long master thesis.
Thanks a lot for your support!
First question: Is it possible, that Zotero switches to the german abbreviation "u.a." instead of "et al." because i'm writing in german? And if so, how can i change that?
Second question: If I remember this right, in APA style, if there are up to 6 authors you cite them all the first time and then you use "et al." for further citations (if there are more than 3 authors of course). Zotero starts using "et al." (well actually "u.a.") from 5 authors on. And then again: How can I change that?
Does anyone have the same problem? It'd be great to get some help from you guys, because it's really annoying to always correct the citations especially when writing a pretty long master thesis.
Thanks a lot for your support!
https://www.zotero.org/support/supported_languages?&#citations_and_bibliographies
2. APA lists up to five authors for the first citation. That's what Zotero does, too
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/03/
Zu deiner ersten Frage habe ich jetzt nach ewig langer Suche eine Lösung gefunden, daher teile ich sie mit dir:
Gehe zu Einstellungen-->Erweitert-->CSL Editor öffnen. Relativ weit oben hat es eine Zeile, in der steht " <info>". Setze den Cursor hinten drann, drücke Enter und füge folgendes ein:
<terms>
<locale xml:lang="de">
<term name="et-al">et al.</term>
</locale>
</terms>
Das hat bei mir funktioniert. Bei dir?
Falls du eine Lösung bzgl. der zweiten Frage findest, bitte poste sie hier, das bräuchte ich auch.
Gruss
Caroline
Zotero listet bis zu 5 AutorInnen im ersten Zitat, danach bis 2. Das sind die APA Regeln.
Funktioniert das nicht oder willst Du das anders haben?