Upgrade StorageAPA 7th and commercial databases
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But include database name only if from databases with original, proprietary content and works of limited circulation -- so generally not from databases like ProQuest or EBSCO, or other widely available databases.
Also don't include URL if it is session-specific (meaning it will not resolve for readers). Instead, provide the URL of the database home page or login page instead.
From: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/database-information#work
We have had inconsistent results at best with getting Zotero to get the database name to appear in the citation in Word. Changing the Item Type works sometimes, but it comes at the cost of losing important metadata such as volume and issue info.
I guess the easiest workaround is to break the coding at the very end, and manually add the database name for these specific, limited database types.
Some good news is that many of the refs that we see do have DOIs. And if they don't, many come from databases like ProQuest, and students can simply cite as print sources.
If the item is a thesis and comes from ProQuest, you should include the ProQuest information. If it is a journal article, those are rarely only available through ProQuest. But in that case, include the URL (ProQuest URL is fine) rather than omitting any retrieval information at all.