Need a style with original published date

silvonen · 2026-01-14T09:25:50+00:00

Hi,
could anyone help. I need a style which include the original publishing date of book. This is important in history papers, and in some cases in theoretical works. In APA style it is not possible to include original date. Is there any style like APA, with original included?

Something like this: Marx, Karl (2024) Das Kapital. Place: Publisher (original date 1867)

damnation · 2026-01-14T09:37:40+00:00

All the styles here have the original-date variable built into the style somewhere.
https://github.com/search?q=repo:citation-style-language/styles original-date&type=code

So, check a bunch of those out.

Note though that APA does include the original date (and original publisher) in its output:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u452233/9pg0xoldkpp95vgiqz6l.png

silvonen · 2026-01-14T09:40:27+00:00

I have now a modified version of APA 6, made by a friend. It gives the original date in brackets as follows:

Vygotsky, L. S. (1987). Lectures on Psychology [1932]. Teoksessa R. W. Rieber & A. S. Carton (Toim.), The Collected Works of L. S. Vygotsky. Volume 1. Problems of General Psychology (s. 289–358). New York: Plenum Press.

dunning · 2026-01-14T11:31:51+00:00

APA, Chicago, MHRA, MLA, and New Hart's Rules all have full support for the new original publication fields. There is currently a bug meaning that data in the Original Date and Original Publisher fields are not transferred to citations in Zotero 7.0.31; this should be fixed in the next release.

The current version of APA does not display the Original Publisher, but I have made an updated version with support for this. It will hopefully be available some day on the official style repository, but in the meantime you can download it here:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/adunning/styles/54409188b0ce72fc9be093d8527f69aef5fe7d7c/apa.csl

In these styles, you can also add a more complex annotation to the end of a bibliography entry using a references: line in the Extra field, as in these examples:

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2205533/items/ANA3PBEP

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2205533/items/CX5IIDRJ

silvonen · 2026-01-14T11:33:42+00:00

Well,
result using APA 7 is this:

Vygotsky, L. S. (1986). Thought and language. (A. Kozulin, transl.). MIT.

Original date still missing.

dunning · 2026-01-14T14:30:39+00:00

Yes, as I indicated, if you're using the current version of Zotero, the information in the original publication fields is not transmitted to the citation generator.