Bug on APA 7 Not displaying page interval. Displaying journal number as article number

leoarriagada
Hi all,
Recently I have experienced a bug using the insertion of the references in Word under APA 7 style via the Zotero add-on.
Example:

It print:
Turing, A. (1950). Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Mind, 59(236), Article 236. https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/LIX.236.433

It must be printed (and a few months ago, it did print)
Turing, A. (1950). Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Mind, 59(236), 433–460. https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/LIX.236.433

I would like to ask for a quick fix because I am ending my thesis.
Kind regards,
  • DWL-SDCA
    edited October 25, 2022
    Check the record in your desktop Zotero. Is 433-460 in your Pages field? If the page range is there, someone else will need to troubleshoot. If instead you have 236 in the Pages field, that is the problem. If you do have the full page range in your Zotero record, you can try deleting the citation from your Word document and re-inserting it. Make sure that you insert the citation from your Zotero library.

    [Question for the experts: Does deleting the citation also delete the record held in the Word document? I'm unsure of how to make certain that upon reinserting the reference that it will be taken from Zotero instead of from what is within Word. I use LibreOffice and the situation may be different with Word.]
  • adamsmith
    You likely have
    Number: 236 in the Extra field -- that shouldn't be there: delete it.
    [Question for the experts: Does deleting the citation also delete the record held in the Word document?
    Likely not relevant here but: You need to delete all citations to a given work but then, yes. There are two ways to make sure the item is taken from the Zotero library:
    1. In the quick format citation bar, select the work under "My Library" (or a group) not under "Cited Items".
    2. In the Classic add citation dialog this happens automatically.
  • leoarriagada
    Thank you both,
    Yes, all the main fields are correctly filed.
    Volume 59
    Number 236
    Pages 433-460

    In fact, the "433-460" page range is displayed correctly if I choose another style but APA 7.

    I appreciate your help.
  • adamsmith
    No, the problem is "Number", that should be "Issue" -- "Number" is for the article number. Check what you have in the Extra field and if there is indeed a line starting with number, delete it.
  • leoarriagada
    @adamsmith that fixed it! Thank you! Is there an option to delete the Extra Field massively?
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