Formatting of journal articles in reference list (APA 7) after import from Citavi 5

kzenf
I just made the switch from Citavi 5 to Zotero. Journal articles that I imported from Citavi aren't being formatted as such in the reference list and instead appear as book chapters of edited books. (Journal articles that I enter directly into Zotero seem to work fine.)

Example of the formatting of a journal article entry imported from Citavi:
Baay, P. E., Ridder, D. T. D., Eccles, J. S., van der Lippe, T., & van Aken, M. A. G. (2014). Self-control trumps work motivation in predicting job search behavior. In Journal of Vocational Behavior (Vol. 85, Issue 3, pp. 443–451). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2014.09.006

A test that I entered manually:
Aardvark, A. (2020). An article as a test. Journal of Tests, 5(20), 1–6. https://doi.org

The item type of both examples is "Journal Article". I've tried switching the item type of the example above to "Magazine Article" and back to "Journal Article", but the problem remains.

Is there a way to fix the existing imported entries without having to replace them by hand?
  • damnation
    How are you generating these references?

    If you want to cite in Word/LibreOffice then you can select a citation style there. As long as the fields have the data entered correctly, Zotero will take care of the rest for you.

  • bwiernik
    You haven’t selected APA 7th edition style.

    Note that you set the citation style in a Word document using the Document Preferences window in the Zotero tab in Word.
  • kzenf
    edited June 11, 2020
    These references appear this way both in Word and in Zotero (using the "Create Bibliography from Item" function). I have selected APA 7th edition as my document preference (as well as as the default format for exporting in Zotero). The above discrepancy persists. I would have thought that the "Item Type" would determine how they appear in the reference section, but these examples seem to contradict that.

    Screenshots of the data that generated the examples above:
    Example 1 (imported from Citavi): https://imgur.com/aqrare7
    Example 2 (manually entered): https://imgur.com/8n4lVoV

    Both examples, as generated by the Word add-in: https://imgur.com/W3jKdGC
  • damnation
    Can you just double check that you are inserting the citations via the Zotero cite pane and also have APA (and not ASA or something else) set under Document preferences?
    Documentation here: https://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_usage

    Open a fresh document, add the citations with "Add citation". 1st thing it'll ask you is to set the citation style.
  • kzenf
    Sure. Here is a screenshot of the selected setting under Document Preferences: https://imgur.com/AIGwwwk

    And the result: https://imgur.com/05KGNxd
  • bwiernik
    edited June 11, 2020
    (As a side note, you should remove the "https://doi.org/" part from the DOI field. That's not part of the DOI; Zotero will add it to styles that require it.)

    The problem is the "Type: JournalArticle" in Extra for the Citavi items. That isn't a valid CSL item type, and it seems that the citation processor is treating this item as a book chapter because of that.

    Delete the "Type" information from Extra.

    @zuphilip @adamsmith Could we exclude this field from Citavi XML import?
  • kzenf
    That works -- thank you!
  • adamsmith
    See https://github.com/zotero/translators/pull/2192
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