Upgrade StorageAPA 6 not formatting correctly
I have had all APA6 chapter in an edited volume entries for this article come out of Zotero absolutely incorrectly. Example here. COUNT the errors.
What's going on?? Why can Zotero no longer properly format APA 6?
Mahiou, Ahmed. 2017. “Les Droits de l’homme Dans Les Constitutions Algériennes (1963-2016).” Pp. 675–88 in Mélanges en l’honneur du professeur E. Decaux, edited by Pedone.
What's going on?? Why can Zotero no longer properly format APA 6?
Mahiou, Ahmed. 2017. “Les Droits de l’homme Dans Les Constitutions Algériennes (1963-2016).” Pp. 675–88 in Mélanges en l’honneur du professeur E. Decaux, edited by Pedone.
It would be weird if one of the most widely used styles on the repository is off, no?
So yeah, I pointed fingers at the wrong thing. But I've been a Zotero evangelist for over a decade, and the unauthorized removal of one of the widely used styles in the repository from my system is BURN IT DOWN anger making.
I was wrong to be not angry enough. Thank you for pointing that out.
And seriously reconsidering my loyalty to Zotero. It's not just my error-- which existed-- in selecting the wrong style. It's that APA 7 was added by a means other than my manual addition of it, and THAT APA 6 WAS REMOVED without the same.
This affected my work. This is impacting my income today. Reliable, fantastic Zotero has turned into another Microsoft tool, making updates without permission or information. This unreliability, at this level, renders it an untrustworthy tool. I trust Nooodle Tools more than I can trust Zotero today.
You're misunderstanding the way this works.
Zotero has a single main version of each bundled style, and they update automatically as new style guide editions come out and we implement the changes. Zotero has always worked like this. Nearly every other reference manager or citation tool that exists — almost all of which use the same Citation Style Language styles — works like this. If you've used Zotero for a decade, this has happened numerous other times before, as new editions of APA, Chicago, and other styles have been released. When people use Zotero and select the bundled APA style, they expect it to be up to date with the latest edition of the style guide.
We also announced this change on Twitter, which you can follow for updates:
https://twitter.com/zotero/status/1212492549044211712
Additionally, every time you start a new document, you would need to choose a style, and the name reflects the current version.
If you want older editions, all you need to do is reinstall the older version, which you can do in a few clicks from the Cite pane of the preferences.
No more.
https://zotero.org/styles/apa-6th-edition
Zotero simply keeps the versions of its major styles up to date with the current versions of the guides. The APA manual was updated over a year ago.
That said -- it isn't at all irrational to choose the tool that best helps you do your work, or to advise for or against tools you have good or bad experiences with. If you're on Windows, Qiqqa has gone open source a while ago. I've not used it myself, but if open source was one of the reasons you had to check out Zotero, it might be worth a look.