Apa 7 and polish language

malgorzatawitkowska · 2025-08-26T01:48:48+00:00

Hello
I am writing document in polish (mac in english, word in english, document in polish, zotero settings in word to polish)

1. when I am using apa 6/7 I have a polish connector "i" instead of & which is OK, however names and dates are not separated by a coma
(Midgley i Wilby 2015).

2. when I switch to Apa 7 I see coma separation between name and date, but "i" is switching to "&"
( Midgley & Wilby, 2015)

What can I do to hava APA 7 with polish "i" instea dof "&"

Thank you

adamsmith · 2025-08-26T02:35:13+00:00

The first part isn't true -- there was never an APA style without comma before the date. You might be looking at ASA 6?

In any case, there's a no ampersand variant of APA that'll give you what you want: https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=id:apa-no-ampersand

malgorzatawitkowska · 2025-08-27T06:34:10+00:00

Actually you are right. By mistake I have chosen ASA.

The variant you presented works great :) . Thank you. I have checked also multiple authors and it presents "et all" while it should "i in.". Could you update this as well?

I wonder why it doesnt change to local language while "polish" language is chosen.

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Thank you.

damnation · 2025-08-27T07:13:30+00:00

Do you have some authoritative source that shows it should be "i in."?

malgorzatawitkowska · 2025-08-27T07:51:02+00:00

Apparently as per polish univeristies and publications, you have some polish language specific that translate into polish. Example is et al.
I attach few sources that reference that

https://apa7.liberilibri.pl/
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https://lacznosc.usz.edu.pl/IMG/pdf/apa.pdf (last sentence reffers to multiple authors)

https://journals.umcs.pl/public/journals/1/Przewodnik_APA_7.pdf. (section 1.2)