Reference list not formatted to APA6th
I have APA6th checked off and I am using the latest version of Word. The reference list was not double spaced with no extra space between references. The references were single spaced, and there was no indent on the second line of a reference and beyond all of which is needed for APA6th. I already paid for extra storage, and this is a big problem since I am in a doctoral program and will have more and more references. What is going on?
The paragraph spacing and indents are controlled by Word’s formatting styles (like Normal, Heading 1, etc.—specifically the style called Bibliography).
When you pick a citation style, Zotero will set the Bibliography Word formatting style to meet the specifications of the selected citation style. But if you change the Word formatting styles (e.g., if you changed Normal), this might change the parameters of the Bibliogrpahy.
A quick way to reset the paragraph formatting of the Bibliography is to switch to a different citation style using the Document Preferences button in the Zotero tab in Word, then switch back to APA.
(I can assure you that Zotero is much easier to use than RefWorks.)
Changing citation styles is two clicks—just click on the Document Preferences button and select a new style. Let me know if you have any more questions!
Regarding saving to Zotero from Ebsco, you should use the Save to Zotero button in your browser toolbar, rather than anything on the Ebsco page itself:
https://zotero.org/support/getting_stuff_into_your_library
Comparing RefWorks to Zotero, it is dramatically easier to import items into Zotero (using the button I mentioned above), and Zotero has the most accurate web import of any program. I also found the Word plugin much easier to use for Zotero compared to RefWorks.
Regarding APA style and Zotero, the formatting will be extremely accurate if you have the data stored completely and accurately in your Zotero library. Rather than manually checking a reference list, I recommend you just verify that the item is complete and accurate when you add it to your Zotero library. If there are problems you are running into, you would need to be more specific about they are.
Yes, I like the plugin as well. Is it possible to import into Zotero the articles I put in RefWorks before I decided to use Zotero (about 60)
I also had one other question. I need to put the references into folders, and what I am finding is that if I do that it duplicates the article, which I don't really want to do. If I try to delete the one in the main library, it deletes the one in the folder as well. I think I must be doing something wrong.
Also, there is a box in the lower left that seems to have keywords and has a search but I don't know how to use that compared to the search at top of the page and making tags for the articles...there must be a difference.
Furthermore now that I think about it, even if I don't make tags will the search still look through all my titles and does it look at the body of the paper as well?
Specific would be that an author was there, but then did not show up in the reference citation, or the editor and not the author shows up, or that one of the lines that should have been indented was not or that the way it is listing a doi is with http in front but APA doesn't like that. I can't think of the rest.
This is a lot, and by me it is one in the morning. I should have been asking questions all along, but I have had a whole lot I have had to handle all at once. I apologize for laying all of this on you at one time, but maybe with the amount of experience you have these questions are easy peazy, I hope...thanks again.
https://www.zotero.org/support/collections_and_tags#the_zotero_collections_model
https://www.zotero.org/support/collections_and_tags#adding_items_to_collections https://www.zotero.org/support/collections_and_tags#the_tag_selector https://www.zotero.org/support/searching
https://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2017/03/doi-display-guidelines-update-march-2017.html
Honestly, all of these sound like either (1) misunderstandings about correct APA style, or (2) potentially you don’t have data entered well into your Zotero library. I would need to know exactly what you mean regarding indenting.
Please believe me when I tell you that the APA CSL style really does handle all of the issues you describe correctly.
The rest I'll get back about later. Again, thanks for your help.
I just went to that link. We can do it both ways according to what it says. The funny thing is that my teacher did not mention it to me.
This is what @adamsmith was saying.