Upgrade StorageAmerican Psychological Association 5th Edition - wrong bibliography output
I use the Zotero Standalone version 3.0.8.
I wanted to generate a Bibliography of selected items by using the citation style "American Psychological Association 5th Edition".
This works quite nicely. However, there are sometimes errors in the alphabetical order of citations especially for studies of the same first author:
e.g.:
Yabe, H, Winkler, I., Czigler, I., Koyama, S., Kakigi, R., Sutoh, T., Hiruma, T., et al. (2001). Organizing sound sequences in the human brain: the interplay of auditory streaming and temporal integration. Brain Research, 897(1-2), 222–227.
Yabe, H., Koyama, S., Kakigi, R., Gunji, A., Tervaniemi, M., Sato, Y., & Kaneko, S. (2001). Automatic discriminative sensitivity inside temporal window of sensory memory as a function of time. Brain Research, 12(1), 39–48.
Yabe, Hirooki, Asai, R., Hiruma, T., Sutoh, T., Koyama, S., Kakigi, R., Tervaniemi, M., et al. (2004). Sound perception affected by nonlinear variation of accuracy in memory trace. Neuroreport, 15(18), 2813–2817.
instead of:
Yabe, H., Asai, R., Hiruma, T., Sutoh, T., Koyama, S., Kakigi, R., Tervaniemi, M., et al. (2004). Sound perception affected by nonlinear variation of accuracy in memory trace. Neuroreport, 15(18), 2813–2817.
Yabe, H., Koyama, S., Kakigi, R., Gunji, A., Tervaniemi, M., Sato, Y., & Kaneko, S. (2001). Automatic discriminative sensitivity inside temporal window of sensory memory as a function of time. Brain Research, 12(1), 39–48.
Yabe, H., Winkler, I., Czigler, I., Koyama, S., Kakigi, R., Sutoh, T., Hiruma, T., et al. (2001). Organizing sound sequences in the human brain: the interplay of auditory streaming and temporal integration. Brain Research, 897(1-2), 222–227.
This problem might be related to another problem: In the wrong version, the citations are inconsistent in that the first name of the first author is either abbreviated 1) with or 2) without point or 3) is not abbreviated.
I wanted to generate a Bibliography of selected items by using the citation style "American Psychological Association 5th Edition".
This works quite nicely. However, there are sometimes errors in the alphabetical order of citations especially for studies of the same first author:
e.g.:
Yabe, H, Winkler, I., Czigler, I., Koyama, S., Kakigi, R., Sutoh, T., Hiruma, T., et al. (2001). Organizing sound sequences in the human brain: the interplay of auditory streaming and temporal integration. Brain Research, 897(1-2), 222–227.
Yabe, H., Koyama, S., Kakigi, R., Gunji, A., Tervaniemi, M., Sato, Y., & Kaneko, S. (2001). Automatic discriminative sensitivity inside temporal window of sensory memory as a function of time. Brain Research, 12(1), 39–48.
Yabe, Hirooki, Asai, R., Hiruma, T., Sutoh, T., Koyama, S., Kakigi, R., Tervaniemi, M., et al. (2004). Sound perception affected by nonlinear variation of accuracy in memory trace. Neuroreport, 15(18), 2813–2817.
instead of:
Yabe, H., Asai, R., Hiruma, T., Sutoh, T., Koyama, S., Kakigi, R., Tervaniemi, M., et al. (2004). Sound perception affected by nonlinear variation of accuracy in memory trace. Neuroreport, 15(18), 2813–2817.
Yabe, H., Koyama, S., Kakigi, R., Gunji, A., Tervaniemi, M., Sato, Y., & Kaneko, S. (2001). Automatic discriminative sensitivity inside temporal window of sensory memory as a function of time. Brain Research, 12(1), 39–48.
Yabe, H., Winkler, I., Czigler, I., Koyama, S., Kakigi, R., Sutoh, T., Hiruma, T., et al. (2001). Organizing sound sequences in the human brain: the interplay of auditory streaming and temporal integration. Brain Research, 897(1-2), 222–227.
This problem might be related to another problem: In the wrong version, the citations are inconsistent in that the first name of the first author is either abbreviated 1) with or 2) without point or 3) is not abbreviated.
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H before H. before Hirooki. As things are, you would also get initials for in-text citations because APA requires those to distinguish between different authors.
That said, it should be impossible to get a full first names for the author list in APA no matter what. My suspicion would be that you have somehow input the author in that last case wrong - e.g. as Yabe, Hirooki in a single field or so. (Same applies to the H without period - that should show up with).
The problem must lie somewhere else (probably in the programming of the citation style) as the citations (e.g. Yabe et al., 2004) were included correctly into Zotero (e.g. from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15597060).
The problem might be that Zotero handles item informations for the first and the following authors differently. To give two examples:
Yabe, H, Winkler, I., Czigler, I., Koyama, S., Kakigi, R., Sutoh, T., Hiruma, T., et al. (2001). Organizing sound sequences in the human brain: the interplay of auditory streaming and temporal integration. Brain Research, 897(1-2), 222–227.
In Zotero library the first names of this reference were abbreviated by only the first letter (i.e. without following point) of all authors. As one can see in the Zotero output for the Bibliography this letter is followed by a point for all authors except for the first author.
The same holds when the first names of all authors were not abbreviated in Zotero library:
Yabe, Hirooki, Asai, R., Hiruma, T., Sutoh, T., Koyama, S., Kakigi, R., Tervaniemi, M., et al. (2004). Sound perception affected by nonlinear variation of accuracy in memory trace. Neuroreport, 15(18), 2813–2817.
The citation format handeled the authors' first names correctly, except for the first author.
I imported the Sound perception citation from Pubmed and I consistently get
Yabe, H., Asai, R., Hiruma, T., Sutoh, T., Koyama, S., Kakigi, R., Tervaniemi, M., et al. (2004). Sound perception affected by nonlinear variation of accuracy in memory trace. Neuroreport, 15(18), 2813–2817.
using the APA 5 style, which is correct. That's also what I see you have in your example above, but not in your second post.
Triple check your data in Zotero - I've seen this reported multiple times and every single one of them has been a data issue. You should have each author displayed as "Lastname, Firstname" and followed by a single white rectangle. If you hover your mouse cursor over that rectangle it should say "Switch to Single Field."
If you're 100% sure the data is correct, export the items in questions to Zotero RDF (right-click --> export selected items as) without notes and files, open the .RDF file with any texteditor, copy the entire content and paste it as a public gist at gist.github.com and provide the URL here.
I again checked my data and, at least what you suggested, seemed to hold: "Lastname, firstname" and if I scroll over the rectangle with the cursor of the mouse it says "Switch to Single Field" (even though in a different language).
Interestingly, I checked for the bibliographic output of only a single item and I, indeed, got the correct output this time as you also got (for the reference Yabe et al., 2004).
Then I checked again what happens if I select three different items, and in this case, I again got the wrong output for Yabe et al., 2004
I am a bit afraid of posting my library entries as I am not 100% sure that my data is correct. But I don't know where the mistake comes from, so I will post it: https://gist.github.com/3906255
Thanks a lot for your support.
Since just using an initial (H.) wouldn't allow you to distinguish between the three "different" authors, Zotero prints the full first name. I'd have to check, but I believe that's in line with APA manual.
@Rintze - to make sure I understand you correctly: Your suggestion would only solve the problem of intials with and without periods in the data, not of initials vs. full first names, right? If so, I think that's a good idea, especially now that CSL's initialization behavior is smarter.
As far as I understood, the best solution would be to store the items always with the complete instead of the abbreviated author's first name so that in case of authors with the same last name there is no ambiguity or confusion (as APA uses the initial of the first name of the first author in such ambigues cases - and probably also the whole name in those rare cases when the first authors' last name and initial of the first name also match).
Taken together one is in need to carefully check whether the automatically stored items from the web contain the complete authors first names, as different formats (such as complete vs. abbreviated first name) might cause ambiguity in that the CSL processor treats the items from the same first author as would they stem from different first authors.
If one has not to deal with the problem of same authors' last names, items containing the abbreviated authors' first name would be enough and in this case treating "H and H. as the same" by the CSL processor would be very helpful, indeed.
Thanks a lot for your support.
Yabe, H, Winkler, I., Czigler, I., Koyama, S., Kakigi, R., Sutoh, T., Hiruma, T., et al. (2001). Organizing sound sequences in the human brain: the interplay of auditory streaming and temporal integration. Brain Research, 897(1-2), 222–227.
using Zotero for Firefox 3.0.8 and using https://raw.github.com/citation-style-language/styles/master/apa5th.csl . The style uses disambiguate-add-names="true", which takes precedence over disambiguate-add-givenname="true", so there shouldn't be any name expansion going on, and a periodless "H" in my library gets properly initialized with a period in the formatted citation:
Yabe, H., Winkler, I., Czigler, I., Koyama, S., Kakigi, R., Sutoh, T., Hiruma, T., et al. (2001). Organizing sound sequences in the human brain: the interplay of auditory streaming and temporal integration. Brain research, 897(1-2), 222–227.