Italicizing web page title in APA 6 style
I'm using the Visual Editor for the APA 6 style, and I want to make what seems to be a simple modification. I want webpage titles to be italicized. However, nothing I try is working.
I essentially want the webpage title to be treated like a report title. So I added an OR condition for document type = webpage in parallel with the document type = report condition, and deleted the document type = webpage condition where it occurred earlier. That doesn't work.
I'd be grateful for a clue, a tip.
I essentially want the webpage title to be treated like a report title. So I added an OR condition for document type = webpage in parallel with the document type = report condition, and deleted the document type = webpage condition where it occurred earlier. That doesn't work.
I'd be grateful for a clue, a tip.
You most likely want to look at these two lines in the title macro
<else-if type="post post-weblog webpage" variable="container-title" match="any">
<text variable="title"/>
</else-if>
<else>
<text variable="title" font-style="italic"/>
</else>
and remove webpage from the first one, but note that the logic for titles in webpages is also contingent on the presence of a container-title (that's Website Title in Zotero). You'd also want to check what's happening in the substitute logic of the author macro, which will print titles absent authors/editors.
Thanks!
However, I'm curious about where APA 6 states that web page (I assume you mean web page and not website) titles must never be italicized. The online APA 6 guides I see recommend italic, e.g., https://aut.ac.nz.libguides.com/APA6th/websites.
I'll be happy to be corrected, but there seem to be no examples of a Web page in the manual. I suppose one could infer a "no italic" rule from Examples 74 to 77, but a style guide should say so explicitly. There seems to be neither such a prescription nor an example in the APA 6 manual.