APA 6th Style - Comma between author and year

AndyAlter · January 12, 2020

Dear Community,

I have to use the APA 6th style but without a comma between the author and the year. Is it possible to make a change or somehow suppress it genrally?
It is requested to be like that: (author year, p. 000) respectively in German (Autor Jahr, S. 00)

Looking forward to your responses and help.
Kr Andy

bwiernik · January 12, 2020

You will have to edit the CSL style file.

In the APA 6th file, in the "citation" section near the bottom, find the lines:

<group delimiter=", ">
  <text macro="author-short"/>
  <text macro="issued-citation"/>
  <text macro="citation-locator"/>
</group>

and replace them with:

<group delimiter=", ">
  <group delimiter=" ">
    <text macro="author-short"/>
    <text macro="issued-citation"/>
  </group>
  <text macro="citation-locator"/>
</group>

Then edit the style title and style ID at the top of the file, save, and install into Zotero. General style editing information here: https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step