How to generate/italicize (APA 6th) all the book titles in the thesis (reference ) correctly?

melissagarden
Dear all,

I wonder if you could help?

The APA 6 manual calls for titles of books/documents to be in italics, but my Zotero is generate them in plain in all my reference list.

I have more than 300 book titles that I need to get them italicize. I wish Zotero could get them updated correctly.

I'm using Zotero 3.0.8 on Win 7, Mircosoft Word 2010.

Please advise.

Many thanks in advance,

Best wishes,
Lisa
  • RintzeRintze
    The "American Psychological Association 6th Edition" CSL style (http://www.zotero.org/styles/apa) style should do that already. You could try reinstalling the style.
  • melissagarden
    Thanks for your reply.

    May I ask how can I reinstall the style?
    Could you please explain a bit more?

    Cheers
    Lisa
  • RintzeRintze
    See http://www.zotero.org/support/styles#installing_additional_styles and http://www.zotero.org/styles (look for the "American Psychological Association 6th Edition" style).
  • melissagarden
    Dear Rintze,

    I downloaded the new APA 6th from the link you gave me.

    My reference list --book titles--were once all italicised for a while. ( it was great!!) However, when I updated the reference list again. The italicised effect disappeared.

    Do you know why? How can it maintain the italicised effect?

    Please advise,

    Lisa
  • adamsmith
    There is s Word bug that affects italics at times - if your first reference has a lot of italics that can mess up the whole bibliography - try adding a fake item - a journal article, e.g., so it wouldn't have much in terms of italics - with an author like "Paul Aardvark" that would be at the beginning of the bibliography. That should fix this and you can delete it at the end.
  • melissagarden
    It works!!! Hallelujah!

    Well done, Adam.

    Thank you very much for your advice:)
    It's much appreciated.

    Best wishes
    Lisa
  • melissagarden
    Dear all,

    I have one more question. I wonder if you could help?

    The APA 6th basic form of author-date citation is (Surname,year), but my Zotero keeps generate (Frist name, Surname, year) for a few authors.

    e.g. the education needs for the 18 per cent students in normal classroom were enormous (Mary Warnock, 2005).-->Wrong

    What is an effective way to correct it back to (Warnock, 2005)?

    Thanks!!!

    Lisa
  • julien_akten
    Hi Lisa,

    Did you correct this "First Name" error since August ?
    I currently encounter the same problem.

    Thanks,

    Julien
  • adamsmith
    This was never broken.
    are you seeing first names or initials?
    If you're seeing initials:
    http://www.zotero.org/support/kb/given_name_disambiguation

    If you're seeing full first names, you have the name input in Zotero the wrong way. They need to be in the form "Warnock, Mary" in two-field mode (i.e. there should be one single box behind the name that says "Switch to single field" when you hover over it).
  • julien_akten
    Thanks a lot.
    I deleted the "given name disambiguation" rule from the citation style.
    It fits better now.
    Have a nice day.

    Julien

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