APA 6th ed Journal Article Title Error

queenmaeb
I have just started using Zotero, and am using it with the APA 6th ed citation style. I have noticed that when I created a bibliography, there is an error with the Journal Article Titles. In APA, only the first letter of a journal article is supposed to be capitalized unless it is a proper noun. The Journal title, however, keeps the capitals as published. When I create a bib reference in Zotero, the first letters of all of the words in a journal title are capitalized, and I'm having to go back and fix them.

Has anyone else encountered this? Is there a way to change it in settings? Is it a design miss?

Thanks.
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/sentence_casing
  • fbennett
    edited October 24, 2014
    The recommended practice is to set titles in sentence case in Zotero. It's more a design precaution than a design flaw: it isn't practical to convert from title case to sentence case, since systems are not able to identify proper nouns automatically. When titles are stored in sentence case in Zotero, styles can convert them to title case as required without information loss.

This is an old discussion that has not been active in a long time. Before commenting here, you should strongly consider starting a new discussion instead. If you think the content of this discussion is still relevant, you can link to it from your new discussion.

Sign In or Register to comment.