APA citing of "Clifton A. Ericson, II"

jeffmutonho · November 28, 2011

Hi guys.
I'm trying to cite material from the book :
http://www.amazon.com/Concise-Encyclopedia-System-Safety-Definition/dp/0470929758

When I click on the Zotero blue icon in the browser URL, Zotero stores the author's details as :
First name: Clifton A. Ericson
Surname : II

Hence, Zotero is inserting "II, C. A. E. (2011). " in the bibliography instead of Ericson, C. A., II.(2011){according to the APA 6th edition manual}
How do I get around this issue?

Thanks

fbennett · November 28, 2011

I don't think there is full documentation on name formatting yet, but the processor manual has this:

http://gsl-nagoya-u.net/http/pub/citeproc-doc.html#suffix-ordinary

What that distills down to in the Zotero UI is that the name should be entered as family name "Ericson" and given name "Clifton A., II".

adamsmith · November 28, 2011

[technical note]: that likely means the translators would all import names like this wrong - I haven't checked, but I think Amazon.js just uses the clean Author function like all the other translators.