Style error: [APA 7th ed] Location of publication number in references

msres · 2026-02-19T19:49:54+00:00

For doctoral dissertations/theses.

In the metadata, I have the publication number of a doctoral dissertation in the "Loc. in Archive" field, and in the past, it would automatically put the publication number after the title, following the APA 7th edition style. But now, Zotero is putting the publication number at the very end of the reference... not following the APA 7th edition style. (https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples/published-dissertation-references)

Metadata example:
Archive: "ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global"
Loc. in Archive: "Publication No. XXXXXXXX"

Earlier this month, it would show up correctly as:

Johnson, X. (2025). Topic: Perceptions of XXXX (Publication No. XXXXXX) [Doctoral dissertation, XXXXX Univeristy]. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global.

Now it is showing up as:

Johnson, X. (2025). Topic: Perceptions of XXXX [Doctoral dissertation, XXXXX University]. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global (Publication No. XXXXXX).

Can this be fixed?

dunning · 2026-02-20T15:25:39+00:00

Add the number to Extra, i.e. number: 10289373. For example:

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2205533/items/UD3VZHS5

msres · 2026-02-20T16:07:08+00:00

Thank you for your response! I noticed that the source code for APA 7th edition style was updated over the past several days. I'm assuming the above was one of the changes that happened recently. Were there other changes? Is there a document with all the changes to the metadata input for APA 7th style?

Thanks.

dunning · 2026-02-21T22:08:19+00:00

This might be the only change in the way the APA style interprets fields that it already supported, but it also now supports several more variables:

https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/pull/7510

msres · 2026-02-24T16:46:30+00:00

Thank you again! I appreciate all the work going into this!