italicized comma after journal in APA

adolfojg
Thanks kindly for your guidance.

In APA 6 the comma after the journal name should be italicized. Is there an easy way to make this comma change to italics? The editor is perhaps too advance for me. :)

thank you!
  • bwiernik
    edited July 21, 2017
    The APA manual is inconsistent with its italics here. When an issue number is given, the comma is never italicized, but it is sometimes italicized and sometimes not in the examples when only a volume number is given. In practice, all APA journals never italicize the comma. So Zotero doesn’t italicize the comma.
  • adamsmith
    I'm not sure whether I should be impressed or horrified that you know this. But it's very useful you do -- thanks!
  • adolfojg
    Thanks bwiernik. As a rule I don't include the issue number. I'm in the Communication field so we follow the APA conventions but I have seen examples where there is some variance from the APA 6th. Is there an easy way to change my own APA 6 style in zotero?
  • LiborA
    edited July 21, 2017
    Yes, visual editor is available on http://editor.citationstyles.org/visualEditor/ or you can edit in any text editor manually.
  • adolfojg
    The editor is amazing, would you be able to show me how to add the itals in the editor? Many thanks.
  • bwiernik
    edited July 21, 2017
    Actually, now that I think about this, the font-styling for punctuation is controlled by the citation processor program, not specified in the CSL style. The processor works by following standard typesetting conventions for the language being used. A comma is typically not italicized when it follows italicized text in standard typesetting (see some discussion here: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/37091/citeproc-bug-punctuation-in-quotes#Comment_190716). There isn't a way to specify in the CSL style that the comma should be italicized, sorry (though, I would generally recommend against italicizing it anyway).
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