APA 7th Edition but with Footnotes

Foot_notes
Hi Community,

I am currently preparing to start to write my Master thesis. My Chair is asking for a citation style with footnotes with several requirements. I identified the APA 7th edition style, that covers all requirements, except for the position of the citation. I would therefore need the citation in a footnote below.

I know, that the APA style usually does not use footnotes. Does anyone know how to adjust the setting of this particular style or is there an other style that fits better?

Best regards

Peter
  • damnation
    Changing a style from in-text to note is fairly easy.
    There is an APA-like style on the repository that is just that: https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=id:citation-compass-apa-note&format=note

    The differences that make it a note style are in line 1: class=note
    and a few lines down: ... citation-format=note

    You can follow this guide to make those changes in APA. https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step
  • Foot_notes
    Thank you very much for the help. Your answer was very helpful and I completed the changes quiet easily.

    I just have one additional question. Instead of having the quote in parentheses, I would like to remove them.

    Does anyone have a clue what adjustments I need to make in the code?
  • bwiernik
    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bwiernik/zotero-tools/master/apa-fullnote.csl

    Or

    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bwiernik/zotero-tools/master/apa-note.csl
  • Foot_notes
    edited April 27, 2022
    Hi,

    thanks a lot, could you tell me, what's the difference between these two styles?

  • bwiernik
    First one has the full bibliography reference in the first note, then short one thereafter. Second one always has the short (like standard APA in-text) citations and only has the full references in the bibliography
  • Foot_notes
    Okay, thank you. :)

    So I applied the first style and it seems to fit almost perfectly.

    There is just one problem left, because the year is no longer written in parentheses.

    Is it possible to just make the additional changes in the code? If so, could you tell me where? I searched for "year" and counted the word 18 times, of whom I think a few refer to the bibliography.
  • adamsmith
    Could you provide examples of what you need to make sure we understand correctly, please?
  • Foot_notes
    Right now, for example, a paper is cited as the following:

    1. Abrahams & Sidhu, 1998

    The style that I would need is the following:

    2. Abrahams & Sidhu (1998)

    And it needs to be in the note.
  • adamsmith
    Find <group delimiter=", ">
    <text macro="author-intext"/>
    <text macro="date-intext"/>
    </group>

    Change to
    <group delimiter=" ">
    <text macro="author-intext"/>
    <text macro="date-intext" prefix="(" suffix=")"/>
    </group>
  • Foot_notes
    Hey thanks a lot, I think this is the style I need. I made the adjustments and the preview looks perfect to me.

    I just have one additional Problem: I am constantly trying to install it but it does not work, even though I already used a different name in the code. Any reasons why I can't install the new style?
  • adamsmith
    What happens when you try to install?
  • nancynlobo
    Hello,
    How can I achieve this style that ApA references appear in footnotes?
    Can I download it or I will have to do everything again?
  • damnation
    Bwiernik linked to the style above. Install it and then switch the style in your Document Preferences. No need to "redo" anything.
  • juliamm2011
    Would you be willing to share your finished .csl file? I am trying to do the same thing (have APA as footnotes + change to 'Author (Year)' format), but am having trouble editing the code accurately.
  • bwiernik
    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bwiernik/zotero-tools/master/apa-note.csl

    Change

    <group delimiter=", ">
    <text macro="author-intext"/>
    <text macro="date-intext"/>
    <text macro="citation-locator"/>
    </group>


    To

    <group delimiter=" ">
    <text macro="author-intext"/>
    <group delimiter=", " prefix="(" suffix=")">
    <text macro="date-intext"/>
    <text macro="citation-locator"/>
    </group>
    </group>
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