Upgrade StorageE-Book citations
E-book citations are a modern necessity. Many Zotero users on the forum have requested that the program be updated to include a separate e-book citation format for data entry because e-books are not cited in the same way as print books. Researchers are continually attempting to find workarounds for an issue which becomes more prevalent each day. Every textbook for the graduate research class that I am enrolled in now is a Kindle and my papers must adhere to APA standards.
APA requires that the bibliography entry for a Kindle e-book include that designation to be enclosed in brackets ––not parentheses–– immediately after the title and before the period (Lee, 2011). However, "[Kindle]" must not be italicized. Therefore using the "edition" line in Zotero does not work because that results in italics. Using the "publisher" line does not work because although it does put the bracketed word in the correct place it also adds a period before and after the bracketed word. Utilizing the "extra" line does nothing because it doesn't print. Furthermore, APA requires that in-text citations of e-books must include the following parameters: Author, Year, Chapter, Section, para., none of which are readily supported in Zotero (Lee, 2011). Please make our lives easier by creating an e-book citation entry method in Zotero.
Thank you.
Resources
Lee, C. (2011, March 6). How do you cite an e-book (e.g., Kindle book)? Retrieved August 5, 2018, from http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2011/06/how-do-you-cite-an-e-book.html
APA requires that the bibliography entry for a Kindle e-book include that designation to be enclosed in brackets ––not parentheses–– immediately after the title and before the period (Lee, 2011). However, "[Kindle]" must not be italicized. Therefore using the "edition" line in Zotero does not work because that results in italics. Using the "publisher" line does not work because although it does put the bracketed word in the correct place it also adds a period before and after the bracketed word. Utilizing the "extra" line does nothing because it doesn't print. Furthermore, APA requires that in-text citations of e-books must include the following parameters: Author, Year, Chapter, Section, para., none of which are readily supported in Zotero (Lee, 2011). Please make our lives easier by creating an e-book citation entry method in Zotero.
Thank you.
Resources
Lee, C. (2011, March 6). How do you cite an e-book (e.g., Kindle book)? Retrieved August 5, 2018, from http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2011/06/how-do-you-cite-an-e-book.html
Medium: Kindle bookThat will add [Kindle book] in brackets according to APA style.
Regarding in-text citations, the preferred method for referring to locations is still page numbers. Most modern e-book formats indicate the corresponding page numbers for the print edition. These are the preferred locators because they are consistent across formats and devices. In the case that page numbers are not available, APA style wants some other form of locator, such as chapter or paragraph number, but as indicated at the blog post you linked to, these are used only in the case that actual page numbers are not available because they are less useful.
Zotero does support a variety of locators, including chapter and paragraph. In the Word add-on window, click the blue bubble for the citation, then click the Page drop down box to select chapter, paragraph, etc. If you want to do both Chapter and Paragraph number, choose Chapter and then enter it like this:
2, para. 2
If you want to refer to a type of location that is not in the list (e.g., Table), use the Suffix field instead.
See https://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_usage#customizing_cites
*Edited* I wrote accessed instead of URL field.
Medium; Kindle
If that doesn’t show up, the citation style needs to be edited. What style are you using?
Our style currently does
Begley, Adam. Updike. Kindle. New York: Harper, 2014.
it should be
Begley, Adam. Updike. New York: Harper, 2014. Kindle.
footnotes are trickier