Mac problems with APA style

videodesk
Hi, Zotero,

I'm having a rather more serious problem on the Mac side with Zotero. (OS 10.4.10; Firefox 2.0.0.4; Zotero 10.0.0b4.r5)
When I export an APA bibliography, many of the entries are missing the author information, and begin instead with the publication title in italics.

This has been happening for a couple of iterations of Zotero.

Any thoughts?

Gary
  • videodesk
    RE: APA error. OK, I've diagnosed my own problem and proved that I can fix it by getting the cites from Amazon (different translator) rather than from my academic library.

    But here's the thing: the library I use is "Ohiolink" through Ohio State University. It is probably one of the biggest academic library networks in the country. The library world's own metadata standard (Dublin core) was invented here.

    So how is it that
    it would generate errors with Zotero?

    Questions? Comments?
  • dstillman
    OhioLINK seems to work for me. Can you provide an example of a problematic record?
  • videodesk
    Hi, Dan,

    Surely. Try citing:
    Research Methods in the Social Sciences
    by Bridget Somekh and Cathy Lewin

    or:
    Critical Cyberculture Studies
    by David Silver

    In both cases, the editors get labeled as Contributors, and then trip up the APA citation. This happens on most edited volumes I cite from OhioLink.

    Best,

    Gary Greenberg

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