APA Style Bib

Ishron
Does anyone know why when you create a bib in APA style zotero puts the total number of pages that are in a book into the bib citation? Can you change this feature instead of having to go into your bib and deleting this part everytime? APA style bib's do not include total pages when citing a whole book/text. I think it is a good feature for zotero to grab this when you are creating your collection, but it is not supposed to be in your bib in APA style.
  • noksagt
    Zotero doesn't differentiate from total pages (which don't belong in the bib) from locating pages (which do belong in the bib). Most translators should not be putting total pages into the page field & you should delete the numbers from records that do have them manually.

    There are plans to improve the root cause of this in the future (but you may have to edit current references anyway).
  • mark
    So where should translators be putting the total number of pages? It is pretty important in some cases, and some types of bibliographies. Does CSL recognize the difference?
  • noksagt
    At this time, there is no appropriate place to store the total number of pages.

    CSL currently defines only page ranges or the first page to be used as locators. There is not entity for the total number of pages in the schema, although I mentioned it in passing on the xbiblio mailing list.
  • Tjowens
    I believe the Chicago styles skirt this issue by simply skipping the pages field for books. It is a bit of a hack, but it actually seems to do the job pretty well. When you are citing a book you shouldn't need page numbers for the book itself, just on spesific citations, if you do need page numbers your really talking about a book section, which in the case of Chicago includes the page numbers.

    Would it make sense to exclude the pages field in the APA CSL?

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