Error in [Basic and Applied Ecology] Citation Style

MelanieChiste

Hello,

I have a problem with the [Basic and Applied Ecology] Citation Style.

If the authorship of a publication is larger than 4 persons, the citation in the text looks like this:

bla bla bla (author 1, u.a., 2015)

but it should be:

bla bla bla (author 1, et al., 2015)

u. a. is the german translation of et al., but even if it's a german journal the citation style is international.


Thanks for your help!

adamsmith

Hmm, the style is correct, something else isn't working right.
Could you confirm your version of Zotero?
If you're in a hurry, you can just use APA style and select English (United States) as the language, which is all the style does anyway.

MelanieChiste

It was the version!
I updated zotero and it works now.

Thanks!

Should be always the first thing to try out :)

MelanieChiste

But now there is something else.
The first line of citations in the bibliography is not indented. The lines are directly among each other.

Thanks for your help!

adamsmith

It might be that your Word style somehow overrides these settings. It's very easy to get indenting simply in Word by modifying the Word style or the paragraph settings. I'd do that. (The style itself does this correctly).

MelanieChiste

Hmm, maybe that is a Mac-Problem.
Now I have the error again with the (author 1, u.a., 2015) instead of (author 1, et al., 2015). But at least the indenting works.

When I open my firefox I always get this message:

"Zotero Word for Mac Integration 3.5.12 requires Zotero 4.0.27.5.SOURCE or later to run. Please download the latest version of Zotero from zotero.org"

But my version of zotero is the latest (4.0.28.8)
I don't know if there is a connection between those things.

adamsmith

That sounds like you may not have Zotero for Firefox updated only the standalone version. You need to update both.

MelanieChiste

So true, thank you!