Editing APA style

tiffanygbr · October 21, 2019

Hi,

I'm just starting with Zotero and I'd like to adjust APA style. Can you help me?

Changes in references would be :
- remove book collection
- remove uppercase in title after :
- italics number for journal if no volume exists

Thanks a lot,
Tiffany

adamsmith · October 21, 2019

What do you mean by "book collection"?

The uppercase after : will, I believe, automatically disappear if you change the style ID (Zotero has that hardcoded for APA-type styles)

(leaving the last one for someone else)

bwiernik · October 21, 2019

I’m not sure what you mean by the last one?

adamsmith · October 21, 2019

I figure this is "print issue number in italics if there's no volume #

tiffanygbr · October 22, 2019

Thank you for your help.

By "book collection" I mean series. Sorry, bad translation from french to english.

The uppercase after : -> APA style is selected in Zotero and Word.. but uppercase still there. Detail, I know ;)

Last one -> maybe an exemple? Here, its ok. 97 will be in italic :

Augier, P. (2018). Une médiation par l’art à l’école : Un espace sans élèves ni enseignants. Revue de l’enfance et de l’adolescence, 97(1), 197‑211. https://doi.org/10.3917/read.097.0197

But with this one, i don't want parentheses and would like 33 in italic :

Waldis, B., & Rivier, R. (2014). Médiation culturelle et action d’art collective dans l’espace public : Transformations, participations et réappropriations. InfoAnimation, (33), 17‑18.

tiffanygbr · November 5, 2019

Any help please?

bwiernik · November 5, 2019

Uppercase after colon:
This is hard-coded in by Zotero for styles with an id that starts with “apa”. Change the id to anything that doesn’t start with that to suppress.

For the issue number:
Personally, I would recommend storing "33" in Volume, instead of Issue in this case. That "33" really is functioning as a volume number, rather than an issue number.

If you do want to change the style, find

<group>
  <text variable="volume" font-style="italic"/>
  <text variable="issue" prefix="(" suffix=")"/>
</group>

And change it to:

<choose>
  <if variable="volume">
    <group>
      <text variable="volume" font-style="italic"/>
      <text variable="issue" prefix="(" suffix=")"/>
    </group>
  </if>
  <else>
    <text variable="issue" font-style="italic"/>
  </else>
</choose>