APA 7th edition citation

douaazaidan

hello,
I want to ask for a custom style for APA 7th edition in arabic.
I have a problem with the current style, the orientation of the brackets in the citation keeps appear in the opposite way and the citation include "&" in English instead of "و" in Arabic
I'll be thankful for your help

bwiernik

The ampersand character isn’t customizable by language, so we would need to do a custom style. Can you show an example of what you want it to look like

douaazaidan

it appears in this form )الحمامي & سرحان, 2015(
and I want it to be in this form (الحمامي و سرحان، 2015) with the direction from right to left and the comma to be in Arabic direction
it only becomes in the right orientation when I turn the direction to the left to right direction which mixes up my whole paragraph in Arabic

douaazaidan

any help please?

bwiernik

Can you make a short document with one paragraph with citations in it, post to Dropbox or similar, and share a link here?

douaazaidan

yes check this link please

https://drive.google.com/file/d/19wVA_1zzgCc3fIrXNMewzZ8rj2-PF9C5/view?usp=sharing

ptornielli

I know this is not the ideal solution, but I hope it helps.

I entered both the authors' surnames and initials in just one surname field, living the "name" field empty. I got the following:

الهمامي، ح. و إبراهيم، ح.

The stop on the right switches to the left when I click on the right-to-left button in my word processor.

Commas generated by Zotero will be in left-to-right shape. I solved this with an automated search and replace of (,) with (،) in the word processor.

bwiernik

We will look into the LTR parentheses issue

douaazaidan

ok thank you that will be great

SaraAQT40

Good Morning
Can I know how this problem is resolved??
I am facing the same problem