APA 7th ed. with annotations

rabnett · January 2, 2020

I am no longer able to created an annotated bibliography with this style, which shows as updated on 1 Jan 2020. The citations appear correctly, but all abstracts are omitted. Has something changed? I am using the standard "Generate bibliography" command.

adamsmith · January 2, 2020

It prints the Extra field, not the abstract.
@bwiernik -- I think that´s a change from APA 6? Was that on purpose? I´d keep this same as before.

bwiernik · January 3, 2020

@adamsmith See discussion here: https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/pull/4419#discussion_r362687824

rabnett · January 4, 2020

Problem solved. Thanks to @bwiernik 's advice I checked the GitHub discussion from 2017: https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/pull/4419#discussion_r362687824

@denlinkd directed people to a web page: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/denlinkd/styles/aba008aa268d430778034c6fd6b0a5124b581d21/dependent/apa-annotated-bibliography-abstract-annotation.csl

Save the page (right click, "Save Page As"). Save it to a favourite downloads folder, then go to Zotero preferences -> Cite -> Click the plus sign -> Open the .csl file you saved.

This will restore an APA 6th edition style which includes abstracts. Saved my vegan bacon.

What's really odd is that no one thought to include abstracts in an APA 7th ed. style to complement the two recently added to Zotero. Librarians frequently include the abstract in bibliographies we prepare for researchers, most of whom want to see this important information. Perhaps a new 7th ed. style with abstracts could be added to the list to make life easier for many disappointed users.

Thanks to the forum for your prompt assistance.

bwiernik · January 4, 2020

Here is a version of APA that prints the abstract https://raw.githubusercontent.com/citation-style-language/styles/2cb26a34a965dce1e5d104575052bbe039e20c08/apa-with-abstract.csl

rabnett · January 4, 2020

Thanks to @bwiernik for sending this link. I added it according to the method I outlined above. It seems to be another version of the link provided by @denlinkd, which dates from 2017. Both versions produce an APA 6th ed. bibliography with abstracts. The date in my Zotero list of styles is 7/11/2017. So far there doesn't seem to be a corresponding style for APA 7th ed. Nonetheless, I'm happy they both work.

bwiernik · January 5, 2020

No, the link I gave is a new style with APA 7 and the abstract.

PaulAtKent · February 1, 2020

As a librarian....am also glad that the link provided by bwiernik provides abstract again ! Thanks !

kamellat1961 · May 8, 2020

@bwiernik you just saved my annotated bacon -- thanks!

stevencrunge · October 15, 2020

So, is the only way to get APA 7th annotations to download and install a csl file? The current selection for APA 7th annotations *doesn't* seem to provide annotations, either from the extra field or the abstract field. I'm not gonna try to teach undergrads with annotated bib assignments to download and install csl files.

adamsmith · October 15, 2020

https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=id:apa-annotated-bibliography prints Extra
https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=id:apa-with-abstract
prints the abstract

If that's not working you'd have to describe more details.
(So there's no need for this in your case, but "try to teach ... to install csl files" is a bit odd: If you click on any of the above links with Zotero & a browser connector installed, it will offer to install those styles just like it would from the style repository. There's really nothing to teach)