Upgrade StorageAPA 7 article titles incorrectly capitalized.
Half the time when I use Zotero to create references in APA 7th edition, the journal article title has incorrect capitalization. I have combed through recent changes from APA 6 to 7 but using "sentence case" capitalization (everything lowercase except the first word, proper nouns, and the first word after a colon) for journal article titles remains the standard as far as I can tell. Why isn't Zotero doing this correctly? Here's an example copied directly from Zotero:
Rendall, D., Vokey, J. R., & Nemeth, C. (2007). Lifting the Curtain on the Wizard of Oz: Biased Voice-Based Impressions of Speaker Size. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance, 33(5), 1208–1219. https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.33.5.1208
From the style manual, a correct APA 7 citation should be:
Rendall, D., Vokey, J. R., & Nemeth, C. (2007). Lifting the curtain on the Wizard of Oz: Biased voice-based impressions of speaker size. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance, 33(5), 1208–1219. https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.33.5.1208
I have dozens of other examples from Zotero. I wrote an entire book chapter using Zotero for my bibliography in APA, and I encountered this issue constantly. It is annoying to have to correct the capitalization of every journal article title.
Can this please be fixed? Are others encountering this?
Rendall, D., Vokey, J. R., & Nemeth, C. (2007). Lifting the Curtain on the Wizard of Oz: Biased Voice-Based Impressions of Speaker Size. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance, 33(5), 1208–1219. https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.33.5.1208
From the style manual, a correct APA 7 citation should be:
Rendall, D., Vokey, J. R., & Nemeth, C. (2007). Lifting the curtain on the Wizard of Oz: Biased voice-based impressions of speaker size. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance, 33(5), 1208–1219. https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.33.5.1208
I have dozens of other examples from Zotero. I wrote an entire book chapter using Zotero for my bibliography in APA, and I encountered this issue constantly. It is annoying to have to correct the capitalization of every journal article title.
Can this please be fixed? Are others encountering this?
Until it's fixed, I always have apa.org and Purdue OWL open, so I fix the citations as I go. I have become very familiar with Word's format painter and the Change Case tool.
For whatever shortcomings, Zotero's still pretty great and saves me a lot of time!
Especially things like italics should never need to be manually corrected, so if italics aren’t showing correctly, something is wrong.
E.g., I posted about a week ago (I think) that the podcast template doesn't include a date, but there's certainly a date according to APA. In fact, there are key things that are always included, which are author (or organisation or title where those other things can't be found), date, and title when authors exist. So, if any of the templates don't include a date, that's an error.
Any suggestions?
The volume should be italicized (and Zotero does that), issue and page numbers should not be.
Issued: 2025-03-15