APA in-text citation - Author initials
Hello,
I am trying to figure out how to get correct APA-style in-text citations. No matter how I enter the author names, initials keep appearing in the in-text citations, even though this is against APA style. I just finished going through and entering in author names and initials by hand to make sure they all matched (I read some previous posts about making sure the same authors are entered in the same exact way), and I am still getting initials in the in-text citations. Can you please help with this?
I am trying to figure out how to get correct APA-style in-text citations. No matter how I enter the author names, initials keep appearing in the in-text citations, even though this is against APA style. I just finished going through and entering in author names and initials by hand to make sure they all matched (I read some previous posts about making sure the same authors are entered in the same exact way), and I am still getting initials in the in-text citations. Can you please help with this?
First thing to check would be to insert just the problematic citation in an empty document using APA style - do you get initials there, too?
I'm not clear from your answer: Have you tried this in an otherwise empty document with just one citation?
(Awh, E., Vogel, E. K., & Oh, S. H., 2006)
If it helps, there are no other authors with these last names in my database.
I made sure that I had American Psychological Association chosen in document preferences.
Thanks for your continued help!
Import the article from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306452205008985 and look at how the authors are entered: Last names and initials are in two separate fields in Zotero: If you click on "Awh" you'll see just the last name in the now editable field. Hit tab and now you have just "E." - the initial.
So, to get the correct citation, last names and initials have to be separated into two different fields. Is there ever a time where you would want to use just one field?
edit: by the way - clicking the white rectangle twice may also get those names you have entered correctly into your database right - but not sure, it might also switch lastname and initials. Worth trying out, though.
General guide: https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step