APA Format for Bibliography
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Articles with DOIs use that instead of a retrieval date/url/databasename combination. This can be important because, at least for the EBSCOhost scraper, the doi isn't grabbed. The example from the Guide is:
Stultz, J. (2006). Integrating exposure therapy and analytic therapy in trauma treatment. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 76(4), 482-488. doi:10.1037/0002-9432.76.4.482
Many other categories of sources have changed too. Has anyone checked Zotero's current output against the new Guide?
if DOI, use DOI
else if URL, use URL
This goes back to the fact that it is incorrect to store the URI for the journal database site as a URL; it should be stored as a link.
Bruce
Author, A. (Year). Title of book (2nd ed.). Place: Publisher
Author, A. (Year). Title of book (3rd ed.). Place: Publisher
Author, A. (Year). Title of book (4th ed.). Place: Publisher
etc.
BTW: Word 2003, Word plugin 1.0b1, Zotero 1.0.0rc6.r1847
In APA format, issue numbers are excluded unless the journal resets page numbers with each issue. I assume zotero has no way of knowing whether that is true for any given journal, but since 98% of journals use continuous pagination, it makes more sense to have the "default" behavior be to leave out the issue number.
I hope the rest of the changes, for blogs, e-books, wikis, email lists, and several other categories of sources will also be updated too.
I'd be happy to send a pdf of the new version of the APA Style Guide to Electronic References to anyone who would be working on it, if they don't have their own copy.
Btw, all of this hard work is appreciated!
Would rock!
Best
Ketil
"I saw and corrected the issue with formatting of page numbers. I will commit these changes soon, and they should appear in 1.0 (if not earlier)."
I have version 1.0.1 installed and I'm still getting page numbers going at the end of the citation instead of after the book title.
Also, I was happy to discover the suppress authors function, but noticed that it still leaves a comma and a space before the year.
Example: Olivares et al. (, 2002) studied…
Not a huge deal to correct as I'm writing, but it would be nice if this could be corrected in future versions.
Thanks for all your hard work on this!
My reading is this:
APA allows, but does not require, omitting issue numbers in continuously paginated periodicals. But since a) not all periodicals are continuously paginated, b) we have no way of knowing or encoding that they are, and c) redundant-ish information is not a bug (I really cannot see anyone being bothered by an additional "(3)"), I think the proper behavior is to include the issue number.
Responses?
However, there is no such a ref type in Zotero, and using "journal" and APA style in Zotero will not output doi/URL.
Any suggestion for a work around in Zotero? Maybe adding "electronic journal" as new ref type?
1.the volume number is not italicised.
2.the issue number is still there. (Mentioned above)
3. without capitalizing the important words of journal names (Mentioned above).
Also, once a while, not very frequently, but not rarely either, automatic capture omits the year of the publication (like this article in Pubmed: Research in paediatric neuropsychology past, present and future).
Especially when I use Zotero to generate bibliography automatically, these small problems are really annoying and reduce the productivity a lot. so if they can be solved, I would be very grateful.
Thanks.
Thanks,
Tim
Etu, T., & Ehuy, C. (2008). An analysis of comfort. Princess Anne, MD: Big School.
@techreport{sec99a,
Author = {Timothy Etu and Cynthia Ehuy},
Title = {An Analysis of Comfort},
Publisher = {Big School},
Address = {Princess Anne, MD},
Number = {NS-CS-06-001},
Month = {August},
Year = {2008}}
update: I had the wrong citation type attached to the record - when changed to 'book' it seems to work correctly. However, Zotero is not generating standard APA dissertation citations, even when the source is captured from Digital Dissertaions.
I suppose a reasonable counter-argument is if, say, 95% of journals are continuously paginated, in which case adding back the missing information would be a relatively more rare occurrence (though still a PITA).
Suggestion: someone contact APA and tell them to change this silly rule.
Author's last name, First and Second Initial. (Year). Article title. Journal title, volume number(issue number), page numbers.
I will appreciate if someone can tell me how to delete fields I don't need from bibliographies generated, which is the DOI in this case. Thanks.
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/798/#Item_25
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/4884/
Thanks, your guide to the post helped. The DOI issue has been sorted and it's no longer generated.
I'm using Zotero 2.0b6.2 and for some reason the APA style implementation doesn't seem to be compliant with the APA guide.
When using either the Word plugin or "chrome://zotero/content/tools/csledit.xul" I get the following results:
Single Citations
(R. Schneider et al., 2006)
Multi Citations
(R. Schneider et al., 2006)
As mentioned by the original post of this entry, the APA style requires up to 5 authors to be listed on the first reference. Maybe a new bug?
Cheers
"Six or More Authors: Use the first author's name followed by et al. in the signal phrase or in parentheses."
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/03/
When I tried APA it gave me (Turshen 1999) as in-text citation instead of (Turshen, 1999). How do I format it to display it correctly (without having o use the editor for every entry)?
Also what about on-line documents like university working papers, governement or NGO reports and so? Can we add "Retrieved July 10, 2009 from url" somewhere in the final reference list?
How can I disable Zotero, when using Import to EndNote in Google scholar?
Cheers