APA bibliography error

susanlulee
I created APA style bibliography but the format is wrong as shown below:

Garavalia, L.S., Hummel, John H. , & Huitt, William G. Constructing the Course Syllabus: Faculty and Student Perceptions of Important Syllabus Components.
Gorelick, R.P. "Read My Lips" and Other Rhetoric: A Qualitative Ethical Study of TAs Using Standardized Syllabi in First-Year Composition Classes. , 11.
Hume, E., & McElhinny, Bonnie S., Ed. The COSWL (Committee on the Status of Women in Linguistics) Collection of Language and Gender Syllabi. , 250.

Susan
  • videodesk
    Hi, Zotero,

    I'm having a rather more serious problem on the Mac side with Zotero. (OS 10.4.10; Firefox 2.0.0.4; Zotero 10.0.0b4.r5)
    When I export an APA bibliography, many of the entries are missing the author information, and begin instead with the publication title in italics.

    This has been happening for a couple of iterations of Zotero.

    Any thoughts?

    Gary
  • videodesk
    RE: APA error. OK, I've diagnosed my own problem and proved that I can fix it by getting the cites from Amazon (different translator) rather than from my academic library.

    But here's the thing: the library I use is "Ohiolink" through Ohio State University. It is probably one of the biggest academic library networks in the country. The library world's own metadata standard (Dublin core) was invented here.

    So how is it that
    it would generate errors with Zotero?

    Questions? Comments?
  • Simon
    susanlulee, thank you. That problem should be fixed in the next release.

    videodesk, are you sure the authors are specified as "Author" and not "Contributor" in the Zotero pane? Zotero scrapes MARC records from the OhioLINK catalog (an older, but more useful library metadata standard). Unfortunately, sometimes MARC records are incorrect. I've successfully generated a bibliography entry from an OhioLINK record in the past, but it may be an issue with the particular books in your library.
  • videodesk
    Hi, Simon,

    RE: Author vs. contributor. No, it happens regularly with authors of books, although it seems to be a more frequent problem when there are multiple authors.

    Best,

    Gary
  • videodesk
    RE: Author VS. Contributor. I went back and looked at the OhioLink entries that don't print out correctly as references and the authors ARE all listed as contributors in the OhioLink listings. Amazon doesn't use the word "contributor" in their metadata and Zotero formats Amazon entries just fine in APA bibliography.

    But why does this Contributor thing trip up Zotero? Contributor and author are treated the same in APA-formatted bibliographies, aren't they?

    Gary
  • bdarcus
    Amazon doesn't use the word "contributor" in their metadata and Zotero formats Amazon entries just fine in APA bibliography.
    Different data sources. There's only so much Zotero can with bad data (though perhaps with MARC data it ought to assume a contributor without an explicit creator is in fact a creator for Zotero purposes?).

    But why does this Contributor thing trip up Zotero? Contributor and author are treated the same in APA-formatted bibliographies, aren't they?
    Not at all. A translator is treated very differently than an author.

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