APA -- everytime: more than 3 Authors = et al.
Hi my friends,
i use Zotero for my master thesis (citationstyle: APA 6th Edition). Now the citation looks like that:
The first time i use the source: (Adam, Berens, Smith & Weed 2010, 43)
-> And then everytime: (Adam u. a., 2011, 43)
My wish Zotero to cite like that (EVERYTIME):
(Adam, Berens, Smith, u.a. 2010, 43)
-> it does not matter if it cite with u.a. or et al; but it should only name 3 authors (or 2, if there is no APA citation style with 3), then write u.a. or et al ---> EVERYTIME
Can you help me please?
Greets from good old Germay
Hansi
i use Zotero for my master thesis (citationstyle: APA 6th Edition). Now the citation looks like that:
The first time i use the source: (Adam, Berens, Smith & Weed 2010, 43)
-> And then everytime: (Adam u. a., 2011, 43)
My wish Zotero to cite like that (EVERYTIME):
(Adam, Berens, Smith, u.a. 2010, 43)
-> it does not matter if it cite with u.a. or et al; but it should only name 3 authors (or 2, if there is no APA citation style with 3), then write u.a. or et al ---> EVERYTIME
Can you help me please?
Greets from good old Germay
Hansi
<citation>
section of the .csl style, changeet-al-min="6"
toet-al-min="3"
. Then change the title and id at the top of the style and save, install.Here is a style that I sometimes use that does this already (it also removes APA's requirements to add extra authors or author given names in the case of disambiguation):
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bwiernik/zotero-tools/master/apa-short-authors.csl
Right-click and download that linked file, then install if you like.
(For interested readers, here is also a version of APA that uses numeric citations, like Vancouver, rather than parenthetical author-date citations.):
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bwiernik/zotero-tools/master/apa-numeric.csl
I will test it tomorrow :)
...citation et-al-min="3" et-al-use-first="1" et-al-subsequent-min="3" et-al-subsequent-use-first="1" disambiguate-add-year-suffix="true" disambiguate-add-names="true" disambiguate-add-givenname="true" collapse="year" givenname-disambiguation-rule="primary-name"...
But now there is everytime something like this (just 1 author):
(Adam u. a., 2011, 43)
Why?
I need help again :(
Thank you, Mr. Misread!
So now I got it downloaded but when I try to add it to Zotero, I get a message saying "an unexpected error occurred". Any ideas?
Thanks.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bwiernik/zotero-tools/master/apa-short-authors.csl
and
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bwiernik/zotero-tools/master/apa-numeric.csl
respectively.
Cheers
Thanks for working on this. I'm attempting to modify this style but have been unsuccessful so far. I'd be very grateful if anyone can help me out.
Here are the instructions from the journal (scroll down to "References" section):
https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/14755661/homepage/forauthors.html#SUBMISSION
Key points:
"According to APA style, in-text citations should follow the author-date method whereby the author's last name and the year of publication for the source appear in the text e.g. (Jones, 1998). The complete reference list should appear alphabetically by name at the end of the paper. For references by three or more authors, please abbreviate citation using "et al.," after the first author: (Bottema et al., 2005). Please note, this is a deviation from APA style (which lists all author names in works by three to five authors in the first citation in text and "et al." in subsequent citations)."
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bwiernik/zotero-tools/master/apa-short-authors.csl
@adamsmith There are a few journals I have seen with this specification. Would you be okay with adding the short authors APA to the CSL repository and specifying this journal as a dependent?
On a related note, I often have citations appear in Calibri font when I refresh the bibliography in Word. This is a bit annoying since I'm usually writing in Times New Roman. Any thoughts on why this occurs or how to prevent it?
We can clarify with the journal as to their preferences. In my experience, journals that want APA with et-al at first references also want to dispense with APA's given name disambiguation and adding author names disambiguation. Thoughts?
My Zotero APA though uses et al. already the first time I cite a paper with several authors.
I have never used the <citation> section you mentioned @bwiernik , and I honestly don´t know where to find it. Could you help me with this, please?
Many thanks in advance!
The change to always using “et al” even the first time was one of the big changes in the 7th edition. Zotero’s behavior is absolutely correct for the style.