Merriam-Webster's APA style (using Zotero's chrome addon) is wrong

Dictpls · July 5, 2020

Merriam-Webster has a nice little section near the bottom if one wishes to cite their definitions. If I use the chrome tool on the website, it's different from the one Merriam built-in citation tool provided. Googling how the standards should be, it seems that Merriam's way is right and Zotero's is wrong. Is there a way to fix this manually?

bwiernik · July 5, 2020

Can you give an example URL? And what exactly are you seeing when Zotero generates an APA-style reference?

Dictpls · July 6, 2020

Yes, of course.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ubiquity

It gives out this.
Definition of UBIQUITY. www.merriam-webster.com, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ubiquity. Accessed 6 July 2020.

The data info
https://i.imgur.com/nkDbBD6.png

bwiernik · July 6, 2020

You need to change the item type to Dictionary Entry after import. The website doesn’t have very high quality metadata for Zotero to import, so you will need to do some cleanup after import.

Dictpls · July 6, 2020

I gave it a go and cleanedup some of the data, but I can't get the actual word that it's defining to display. It's close, but not quite there.

https://i.imgur.com/JVXv2Vw.png
Merriam-Webster. (n.d.). In Merriam.Webster.com dictionary. Retrieved 6 July 2020, from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ubiquity

it is missing 'Ubiquity.' after the date.

bwiernik · July 6, 2020

Enter Meriam-Webster as the Author (in single-field mode, click the bar to the right of the author name to switch from last-first mode). Enter “Ubiquity” as the title.

Title for a Dictionary Entry, like for a book chapter, is the title of the entry/chapter, not the whole book.

Dictpls · July 6, 2020

Title for the the dictionary entry, I see.
Thank you so much, worked like a charm.