Upgrade StorageEditing APA style to include abstract for annotated bibliography?
I just tried to modify the APA style to include the abstract for an annotated bibliography. I was able to insert the line:
<text variable="abstract" prefix=" Abstract: " />
before the /layout line at the end of the Bibliography section and it now includes the abstract, but I can't figure out how to make the following mods:
1. How do I force a new line before the "Abstract" prefix? If I add
display="block"
in that line, it puts the abstract on a new line, but not the prefix.
2. The bibiography section forces a period at the end. How can I force that before the abstract field?
Thanks
<text variable="abstract" prefix=" Abstract: " />
before the /layout line at the end of the Bibliography section and it now includes the abstract, but I can't figure out how to make the following mods:
1. How do I force a new line before the "Abstract" prefix? If I add
display="block"
in that line, it puts the abstract on a new line, but not the prefix.
2. The bibiography section forces a period at the end. How can I force that before the abstract field?
Thanks
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But that aside, something like this should work:
<layout><group suffix=".">
<text macro="author" suffix="."/>
<text macro="issued"/>
<text macro="title" prefix=" "/>
<text macro="container-contributors"/>
<text macro="secondary-contributors"/>
<text variable="container-title" font-style="italic"/>
<text variable="collection-title" prefix=", " suffix="."/>
<text macro="locators"/>
<group delimiter=". " prefix=". ">
<text macro="publisher"/>
<text macro="access"/>
</group>
</group>
<text value="Abstract" display="block"/>
<text variable="abstract" display="block"/>
</layout>
Note what I've done with the outer group, and the text/value element.
Will see how that works. For this course assignment we were told we could use the supplied abstract. Is there a way to use one of the notes entries instead of an abstract? That would be more useful as I progress through the program. I didn't see that as a variable listed in the csl_syntax page.
I just noticed that I can use the extra field and the text variable "note" to pick that up. So I can do two different styles for an annotated bibliography, one with the abstract field and one with my notes.
Jonathan
I am interested in using your modified APA style as I don't know how to modify the code - did you post this to the Zotero site?
Jonathan, you wrote that you "can use the extra field and the text variable 'note' to pick that up," but everything I tried either displayed nothing or caused zotero to pop up an error message.
Thanks for your help!
<text variable="note"/>
displays whatever is in the 'Extra' field (not the note attached to the item).
@ Everyone else: Is there any way to get notes into a bibliography?