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Zotero is not entering the bibliography for APA 6th ed. correctly.
The titles of articles should be in lower case.
I select APA 6th ed. The citations are correct most of the time.
I notice there are times that Zotero uses Phd as a last name. I correct it.
However it consistently enters all titles with Upper case.
I have been manually editing the titles. There got to be an easier way.
The titles of articles should be in lower case.
I select APA 6th ed. The citations are correct most of the time.
I notice there are times that Zotero uses Phd as a last name. I correct it.
However it consistently enters all titles with Upper case.
I have been manually editing the titles. There got to be an easier way.
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From those where they aren't, you can right-click on a title to apply pseudo-sentence case.
But as that article explains, there's no way to automate sentence casing. Even if you had a list of all English nouns, many of them double as proper nouns.
Know that, while most (by far) journal publishers send their metadata with titles in title-case or all upper case, many literature databases PubMed, PsycInfo, and my own SafetyLit) employ staff to convert the titles to sentence case. For example, when records first appear in PubMed they are essentially the raw metadata as supplied by publishers. Only after a week or so will the records be edited to fix the casing of the titles, adjust the volume/issue information and supplements so that it is uniform, and remove words such as "Abstract" or "Summary" from the top of the abstract field. The additional editing by database curators to make casing and such meet a standard by is deemed worth the effort indeed almost a necessity to deliver a quality product.
Veering off point: What I don't understand is why some major journal publishers do not make it easier to correctly cite their articles. Impact factors may be important to university based authors and their departments, but the IFs are everything to editors and publishers. Bibliometry studies have demonstrated several things about citations (except for classic or key items in a field's literature. Among these are: authors are much more likely to cite papers when they don't need to expend extra work to type the reference (principle of least effort); information seekers (graduate student assistants) select articles based on the ease of including the item in the report (items with short titles are more likely to be included); etc. It would seem that publishers would go to great lengths to have easily cited articles. Alas, most publishers seem to view metadata quality as an afterthought. A few actually take steps to make hand entry the only way to record article metadata -- even for subscribers. But that becomes even further off topic than I have already drifted.