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From: Wilfried <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 6:43:33 AM
Subject: Re: The tyranny of the APA Manual (more or less on topic)
John Kane wrote:
> I was poking around the Zotero site trying to see if there was a way to get a
> specific APA citation format [Author (date)] which is easy enough in LyX or
> LaTeX to work in a word processor such as AOO Writer or MS Word[1]. Well
> actually I was finding that Zotero inserts the citation in (Author, Date)
> format without allowing modifications as one can when inserting from a bibtex
> file and hoped to find a way to avoid having to go back and edit later if it
> could be done in a word processor.
>[...]
> 1. The answer was no, Zotero does not do this but there is a reasonable work
> around: Just type the Author part and insert the reference with author
> suppressed.
You can easily edit Zotero's style file to make it insert the required
parentheses.
To edit Zotero's style file:
- use a text editor which can handle UTF-8 files
- do not overwrite the original style file but save the changed file
with a different name and also change the style name in the header part.
You can contact me for further questions by PM.
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Wilfried Hennings
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Thanks you for the suggestion but does that not still leave me with only one
way o insertion? What I was hoping to find was the equivalent of the LyX
insertion menu where I have the choice of several different ways of inserting
Author (date)
(Author, date)
(date)
The Zotero package in Apache Open Office offers (Author date) as default and
one can get the equivalents of pre and post text etc by editing the citation
after insertion rather than before as one does in LyX. It was just a minor
annoyance that I had to go back and edit the Zotero citation in LyX. I just
find it more logical and convenient to do it the way LyX does natively.
From my reading on the Zotero forum this seems an acknowledged issue and it
really is a Word/OpenOffice problem so I won't worry about it. At a rough guess
80% of my citations would be (author, date) so the Zotero default makes sense.
I was just being lazy.
Thanks very much though.
