The expectation is that the intext citations will look like (Pierson 2000) and (Pierson 2005). For example, suppose two articles by Paul Pierson are cited, but in one the author is is recorded as “Pierson, P” and in the other as “Pierson, Paul”. This usually happens when two items from the same author are cited, but the author names are not identical.
Author names include first names, extra initials and/or middle names. If you have additional differences between this style file and the style guide, let me know and I will attempt to edit it.Ģ. If this is not a concern for you, use this edited style: apa-sentence-case-v2.csl (21.5 KB) You can add it by going to the gear in the upper right of Paperpile -> Settings -> Citation Styles -> Upload CSL file. For example, the title “An analysis of the labor conditions at Beringer Gold mines” would mistakenly be written as “An analysis of the labor conditions at beringer gold mines” if sentence case were enforced. The main reason for this is that there is n way to identify proper nouns. The APA style guide specifies that titles should be in Sentence Case, however, the default APA style used by Paperpile (and Mendeley and Zotero) does not apply this specification. Given the title of this post I will address a few of them here. We run unto a few common errors/complaints with the APA style in particular but other styles as well.