APA 6th In-Text Citation Support

brentpabst
Hi,

Zotero does an excellent job doing parenthetical citations in text when quoting a reference. However, it does not support the ability to do non-parenthetical citations.

In other words when paraphrasing in 6th edition I may write something like "Drucker and Sloan (2005) stated that business was awesome!" as opposed to "Business is awesome! (Drucker & Sloan, 2005)"

Zotero cannot do the former. It would be nice to at least provide a feature to export or at least deliniate in a citation whether or not the citation is parenthetical or in-line.

In addition this also affects the MS Word plug-in, and would be very helpful there as well.

You can check out the APA 6th edition manual on page 177 for the complete chart where it lists the differences between in-text using "and" versus the parenthetical that uses an amperstand.
  • aurimas
    edited September 22, 2012
    See suppress authors here: http://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_usage#quick_format_citation_dialog

    Edit: edited link to take you closer to the right section
  • brentpabst
    I know I can supress the author, but I would then still have to include the text manually in the page. This doesn't make much sense since if I then make a change to the reference in Zotero it will not automatically update the reference in text for me. Theoretically my citation skills are perfect, but I much rather trust software rules than my own!
  • adamsmith
    it's likely not going to happen. There are a bunch of threads on the forum with lengthy explanations and if you're interested you can search for them, but the short version is the short version is that in an example like
    "Drucker and Sloan (2005) stated..."
    "Drucker and Sloan" is a grammatically necessary part of the sentence and should thus be part of the text written in your word processor, not the citation generated by Zotero.

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