Changes to APA Style in 7th Edition

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  • I thought the intext disambiguation should be (Smith et al., 2021) versus (Smith et al., 2021a)?
  • No, 2021a and 2021b are only used for the exact same author groups.
  • edited November 19, 2021
    Edit: solved using https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step and https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/given_name_disambiguation!

    Following up on @carrotroll 's question, I noticed that in some cases suddenly the initials are given to distinguish between such publications (whereas for other publications, a second author is added like in carrotroll's example). For example, my own publications are listed in-text as 'Vandeputte et al., 2021' OR 'M.M. Vandeputte et al., 2021' OR 'M. Vandeputte et al., 2020' for publications in the same year with different author groups. Can this be changed? All of these publications are listed correctly and consistently in Zotero (Vandeputte // M. M.).
  • The style follows the APA manual exactly here. It is correct APA style to add initials to distinguish authors with the same last name and to add additional names to distinguish citations that are shorted to the same “Jones et al” form. There isn’t any changes needed to bring the style into compliance with the APA manual.
  • Regarding APA 7
    Law Statutes and Common Law case referencing broken, doesn't reference properly
    Narrative in-text citation broken/non existent

    Please work on these as APA is one of the big ones to comply with.
  • @ephestion I don’t know what you mean. The APA style definitely produces the legal citations as described in the APA manual. If you are having an issue, please open a new thread and give specific examples.

    For narrative citations, use the Suppress Author setting in the Zotero Word plugin.
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