Upgrade StorageHelp modifying APA 7 to (author date: page)
I'm curently going mad trying to change APA in-line citations from (author, date, page) to (author date: page).
I cannot resort to a different style because the bilbiography has to be APA 7. I tried to copy over elements from ASA (American Sociologoy Association) but I could not figure out how to add a space between (date:page).
Could someone walk me through this process?
This is the original code from APA 7 for in-line citations, starting in line 2208:
EDIT: I'm not able to post the code here unfortunately (it shows as white space when posting)
I cannot resort to a different style because the bilbiography has to be APA 7. I tried to copy over elements from ASA (American Sociologoy Association) but I could not figure out how to add a space between (date:page).
Could someone walk me through this process?
This is the original code from APA 7 for in-line citations, starting in line 2208:
EDIT: I'm not able to post the code here unfortunately (it shows as white space when posting)
<layout delimiter="; " prefix="(" suffix=")"><group delimiter=", ">
<text macro="author-short"/>
<text macro="date-short"/>
<text macro="label-locator"/>
</group>
</layout>
Change to
<layout delimiter="; " prefix="(" suffix=")"><group delimiter=": ">
<group delimiter=", ">
<text macro="author-short"/>
<text macro="date-short"/>
</group>
<text macro="label-locator"/>
</group>
</layout>
See https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step for general instructions
Note that that leaves the p./pp. in place for page numbers, so if you also don't want that, you'll have to dig through the code to remove it or start with a different style.
What worked for me now is to paste this into the APA style:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u11636347/0dga088u7cqxj2ex0zd3.png
I dont know how to post code inline here so I've attached it as a picture if anyone else needs this.
It gets rid of the p. too somehow.