AAA style out of date?
I'm helping someone who is using AAA style and is inserting page numbers into the in-text citation.
When she does that citation looks like this:
(George 2002:2)
According to the most recent style guide (https://www.americananthro.org/StayInformed/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=2044), it should be
(George 2002, 2).
Does the style need updating?
Thanks.
When she does that citation looks like this:
(George 2002:2)
According to the most recent style guide (https://www.americananthro.org/StayInformed/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=2044), it should be
(George 2002, 2).
Does the style need updating?
Thanks.
And should we create an AAA dependent point to Chicago author-date or not?
@Rintze
Does anyone know how to edit the AAA style to get there to be a space after the colon and before the page numbers? Right now when you add page numbers, it puts in a colon and page numbers but NO space between the colon and the page numbers which is what she is trying to do. Thanks!
If you edit the citation directly in the document, Zotero will warn you on the next refresh that you've made a manual edit and ask you whether it should overwrite the citation in order to keep it up to date or leave the edited version in place. If you choose the latter option, it won't make further changes.
Changing the style should cause the citations to update properly — you should be able to test that in a new document.
If that's not happening in a specific document, you'd first want to confirm that the citations are still active (i.e., they're shaded when you click on them, right-clicking gives a Toggle Field Codes option that toggles them back and forth between text and code). If that's not the case, the document may have been resaved by another program (e.g., Google Docs), which could turn them into plain text.
If they're still active Zotero citations but aren't updating properly when you switch styles, can you email a tiny excerpt of the document that demonstrates the problem to support@zotero.org with a link to this thread?