"Report" doesn't show institution / Language settings

uerseli
Hi,
I am a bloody beginner struggling with 2 silly problems. I work with Mendeley and the Zotero APA Citation Style (language setting is German)
1) as soon as I try to insert a "report", the publishing institution isn't shown in the bibliography. I checked that in the CSL Editor and there the sample citation shows it in a correct way. Thus, I have no clue why it is not working on my desktop as well.
2) when I'm on the CSL Editor all I can edit is the default version of my style, not the German version. How can I edit that one (I would like to tell Mendeley to use the latin "et. al" instead of the German translation "u.a." - right now it only uses "et. al" with default language settings but then "retrieved from" is also in English)?
Hope you can help me - Mendeley refused to.
Thanks a lot!
  • adamsmith
    Yeah, that's a Mendeley bug/shortcoming. CSL expects "Institution" of reports to be mapped to "publisher" (which Mendeley does e.g. for Theses), but Mendeley doesn't do this. In fact, institution isn't shown to CSL at all, so the citation style can't use it.
    You can see the Mendeley to CSL mapping here: https://service.elsevier.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/22175/supporthub/mendeley/

    As a workaround, you can add "Publisher" to Report under "Options" --> "Document Details". APA style will work correctly if you include the institution in the publisher field for reports.

    For the et al. -- consider using the DGfP style, which is very similar to APA and optimized for German https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=id:deutsche-gesellschaft-fur-psychologie (also available in Mendeley). To edit how et al is displayed in German for APA, you'd need to modify the "term" for German in the APA style. That's possible and we can walk you through that if need be, but see if DGfP meets your needs first.

    But while we have you here, and since you've now seen that Zotero provides better support, better citations, and understands Mendeley better than their own support does, you should consider switching.
  • uerseli
    Wow, thank you so much! Everything works as described. You are the BEST!!!
  • uerseli
    @adamsmith I encounter another problem. DGfP works fine for me so far but repeated citations in the text always produce two authors plus "et al". How can I modify the style to only mention one author plus "et al." for a repeated citation? Thanks a lot for helping again!
  • adamsmith
    Are you sure that's _always_? The style is set up to print only one author before et al, but will add additional authors to disambiguate citations, e.g. if you have
    Smith et al., 1776 and Smith et al. 1792, but Smith has different co-authors, the style would do
    Smith, Meyer, et al 1776 and Smith, Doe, et al. 1792.
  • uerseli
    edited November 6, 2018
    I don't know why, but it is only one source that acts this way :-O. The source originally has five authors: Triandis, H. C., Bontempo, R., Villareal, M. J., Asai, M. & Lucca, N. (1988). Individualism and Collectivism: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Self-Ingroup Relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 54 (2), 323–338. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.54.2.323
  • adamsmith
    Likely you have two versions of it then. Insert a bibliography and they'll show up.
  • uerseli
    I already have inserted a bibliography and I don't have two versions of the source.
  • uerseli
    Ok, I got it (flushing). Thanks again! I've got two sources written by the main author in the same year. That's why the second authors is shown as well. Sorry!!
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