APA 6th ed. References with more than seven authors

igw · September 23, 2009

One of the changes in the new APA manual refers to references with more than seven authors. Now, in addition to the first 6 authors, the last author should be listed, while all others should be omitted.

For example:
Terracciano, A., Abdel-Khalek, A. M., Adam, N., Adamovova, L., Ahn, C.,
Ahn, H., . . . McCrae, R. R. (2005, October 7). National character
does not reflect mean personality trait levels in 49 cultures.
Science, 310, 96–100. doi:10.1126/science.1117199

taken from:
http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2009/08/formatting-apa-references-with-more-than-seven-authors.html

Can zotero accomplish this?

fbennett · September 23, 2009

Oh, joy. The short answer is "not yet".

bdarcus · September 23, 2009

Grumble, grumble, grumble. What are these editors thinking???!!!

Elena once suggested I send an editorial on the insanity of citation styling to something like the Chronicle of Higher Ed. I think that's moving up my priority list.

komrade · September 23, 2009

Bruce - some fellow grumblers:

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=407112
and
http://www.doceo.co.uk/reflection/2009/04/on-shibboleth-of-harvard-referencing.htm

Rintze · September 23, 2009

Two more grumblers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statler_&_Waldorf

:P

cgshields1953 · June 13, 2010

why do they do this to us? We are just trying to publish papers.

adamsmith · June 13, 2010

in all fairness, as has been pointed out before - for most of the hard sciences (and pretty much anything that comes out of a larger lab/working group) the first and the last author are the most important ones - the first one actually wrote the piece, the last one "owns" the lab - i.e. has assured the funding - so while this is a PITA to do, it's not actually a bad idea.

cgshields1953 · June 13, 2010

thanks for the rationale. I just hope someone comes up with a zotero fix. I've spent the last three hours tidying up a reference list for a long paper.