APA citations output from Scrivener
Hi all,
I am using Scrivener for my writing and using the scannable cite format from Zotero. The problem is the APA in-text citations are not properly formatted inside parentheses in the resulting output. Example: (author, year). Rather, the output is the author and year, but not enclosed in parentheses.
Here is the process I am using:
Compile document in Scrivener to .odt format.
Run RTF scan in Zotero with ODF to citations format.
Resulting ODT file correctly converts the in-text citation markers to the author, year format, but without the citation information contained in parentheses.
Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this? Thanks!
I am using Scrivener for my writing and using the scannable cite format from Zotero. The problem is the APA in-text citations are not properly formatted inside parentheses in the resulting output. Example: (author, year). Rather, the output is the author and year, but not enclosed in parentheses.
Here is the process I am using:
Compile document in Scrivener to .odt format.
Run RTF scan in Zotero with ODF to citations format.
Resulting ODT file correctly converts the in-text citation markers to the author, year format, but without the citation information contained in parentheses.
Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this? Thanks!
To compile the document, I select "format as original" and compile for ODT.
I save the ODT file.
Then I go to Zotero and use the RTF scan to open the ODT file. File type selected is ODF to citations. Output is an ODT file.
Then I open the output file with Word. The citations are converted from the citation markers to the author, year format, but with no parentheses.
Another issue (which may or may not be related) is that when I open the ODT file with Word after doing the RTF scan, I get the following message: "The file cannot be opened because there are problems with the contents."
If I click "okay," I get another message: "Word found unreadable content in test (citations).odt. Do you want to recover the contents of this document?"
If I then click "yes" the file will open but with a small dialog box that lists a series of repairs that were performed. The errors are listed as "character properties."
You need to exactly follow the instructions under "Setting a citation style" here: http://zotero-odf-scan.github.io/zotero-odf-scan/
Also, I cannot seem to find the "insert bibliography" option in Libre Office (I can when I am using the Zotero plugin for Word). Can you tell me where to find it?
In addition, there is oddly a comma placed in the citation when there are only two authors. For example: Smith, & Jones, 2010. There should be no comma between Smith and the ampersand. Is this just a code error in the RTF output from Zotero?
"In the toolbar of the Zotero LibreOffice plugin, click the "Set Document Preferences" button and choose a citation style."
(For one, because that wold set the citation style correct, but also because the insert citation button is right next to that one)
Now I am looking at the ODT file in LibreOffice. The citations are in APA format, but I put the parentheses in manually in Scrivener. So in other words, if the citations were formatting properly from Zotero, then to the ODT file, then to LibreOffice, it seems like I should now see 2 sets of parentheses. One set being what I added manually in Scrivener, the second set that was added by converting the citation markers to the APA-style references.
As for the bibliography question, I have the ODT file open in LibreOffice. Now I want to create a bibliography from the citations in the paper. Is there a button in LibreOffice to do this?
You're looking for the "Set document preferences" button in the Zotero Toolbar in LibreOffice, which looks basically the same as the Word one. https://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_usage
What I had previously: ( { | English, 1998 | | |zu:2016386:GUYDJNDI}) (parentheses added manually).
Now: { | English, 1998 | | |zu:2016386:GUYDJNDI}
I then went through all the steps again (compiled to ODT in Scrivener, used RTF scan in Zotero to create the ODT output file, opened ODT output file in LibreOffice).
The citation looks like this in the ODT output file: English, 1998
No parentheses.
I'm not seeing any toolbar for Zotero in LibreOffice...??
http://thedigitalresearcher.com/how-to-use-zotero-with-scrivener-part-2/
I'm pretty sure you haven't been doing that.
Thank you again for your help!!