Cite them right 12th edition - Harvard not citing in the right format

Miyaya22
i have been using Zotero for the last few months for my dissertation, and it had been working fine until like a week ago. While citing it in Harvard format, the format is wrong. For example, Wood, D.J. (1991) ‘Corporate Social Performance Revisited’, The Academy of Management Review, 16(4), p. 691. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2307/258977.
The title of the article should be lower case except for the first letter of the first word. What do I do? this is a bit frustrating.
  • damnation
    That's nothing to do with the style, but a data entry/import issue you are responsible for. Make sure your titles are stored in sentence case within Zotero. If they are not, right click >> sentence case.
  • MarkoY
    According to Cite Them Right, 12th edition (2022), journal article titles (and other items such as magazine/newspaper articles) must be enclosed in single quotation marks.

    However, the current Zotero style Cite Them Right 12th edition – Harvard (last updated 25 August 2025) is outputting article titles in double quotation marks.
  • damnation
    edited 16 days ago
    That's not a style issue, but a localisation issue on your end. Set the language to British English, not US.
  • MarkoY
    THANK YOU. Cite Them Right usually defaults to UK English. So i didn't even look at that.
  • damnation
    No, a style doesn't "default" to anything. It's either got a language hardcoded into it or is open to choose and that I think just used the language you last used.
  • adamsmith
    I think describing the 'default-locale' as defaulting is fine -- and we did use to have Cite Them Right set to en-GB until recently, when people started requesting other languages, so we removed that.

    For styles like CTR (or Chicago, Vancouver, APA) without a default locale, Zotero defaults to the locale of your Zotero installation (but as damnation says, you can switch at any time).
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