APA 6th

fivemom
I have just started using Zotero, and have created my first bibliography using APA 6th. However, there apear to be two problems. Some of the journal article entries are missing the date, even though it is in the item panel on the right hand side (it does show month and year there so I'm not sure if that is the confusion). As well, the journal article has all words capitalized. The title of the article should be in sentence-case, with only the first word and proper nouns in the title capitalized. The journal title is to be capitalized, and is done so correctly.
Any suggestions?
  • fbennett
    That doesn't give us much information to go on. Please provide more details, such as:

    - The item type of the entries that render incorrectly
    - The field content of the entries that render incorrectly
    - A note of whether the offending entries fail always, or only under certain conditions
  • fivemom
    Here is an example from the reference list that was created:
    Elgar, F., Knight, J., Worrall, G., & Sherman, G.Attachment Characteristics and Behavioural Problems in Rural and Urban Juvenile Delinquents. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 34(1), 35-48.

    As you can see, the year is missing (after the last author), and the words are incorrectly capitalized in the article name. (the journal title is correctly italicized in the original document). The date that was originally entered is Fall2003. The entire item was entered manually as it could not be imported, although there are others that were imported via the ISBN that are also missing the date.
  • fbennett
    I'm on my way to teach a class, so a fuller response will need to wait a few hours. But you have no space between Fall and 2003? If so, put a space there and see what happens.
  • adamsmith
    Try if those items have a date in other citation styles - it's unlikely that this is due to APA and more likely something is wrong with how it's entered into Zotero.

    For the sentence case see this:
    http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/5464/apa-citation-style-capitalization/
    which still applies and will for any foreseeable future.
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