I am using the Preview feature extensively to copy refs to other documents, using the American Psychological Association 7th Ed as the preview. (I would use any other similar reference format)
But it doesn’t display certain fields I consider necessary:
address for books: all I get is the publisher, but most publications require something like New York, NY: Wiley, rather than just Wiley.
URL field. I see DOIs, but not URLs
Is there another format that gives what I want or some way to edit the APA 7th Ed preview?
If an online work has both a DOI and a URL, include only the DOI.
If an online work has a URL but no DOI, include the URL in the reference as follows:
For works without DOIs from websites (not including academic research databases), provide a URL in the reference (as long as the URL will work for readers).
For works without DOIs from most academic research databases, do not include a URL or database information in the reference because these works are widely available. The reference should be the same as the reference for a print version of the work.
For works from databases that publish original, proprietary material available only in that database (such as the UpToDate database) or for works of limited circulation in databases (such as monographs in the ERIC database), include the name of the database or archive and the URL of the work. If the URL requires a login or is session-specific (meaning it will not resolve for readers), provide the URL of the database or archive home page or login page instead of the URL for the work. See the page on including database information in references for more information.
Other alphanumeric identifiers such as the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) and the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) are not included in APA Style references.
Still doesn’t solve the DOI problem. I’m using for Preview:
American Psychological Association 6th Edition (“doi:” DOI prefix)
For an entry like:
@Article{Friendly:2022,
author = {Michael Friendly},
journal = {Sociological Spectrum},
title = {The Life and Work of Andr\'e-Michel Guerry, Revisited},
year = {2022},
note = {accepted, May 15, 2022; Article ID: USLS 2078450},
doi = {10.1080/02732173.2022.2078450},
eprint = {https://www.datavis.ca/papers/guerryvie/GuerryLife2_v3.pdf},
keywords = {moral statistics; crime mapping; history of social science; Quetelet; thematic cartography},
owner = {friendly},
}
the preview doesn’t show the DOI:
Friendly, M. (2022). The Life and Work of André-Michel Guerry, Revisited. Sociological Spectrum.
JabRef 5.6–2022-04-25–5c9d898
Linux 5.4.0-110-generic amd64
Java 17.0.2
JavaFX 18+12
Could you please provide the version of JabRef you are using? Could be that you have an older version an in a newer version this is already fixed. Could also be that you have to reset your preferences (please backup your preferences before doing so) or you have to restart JabRef, but I don’t think so. It worked for me immediately upon selecting the style.
reinstalling JabRef; Maybe try the portable version?
editing the citationstyle (only if all else fails).
Also, did you make sure you klicked on “save” after selecting the citationstyle? (Sorry, stupid question, but I am out of ideas now)
You also can switch between preview styles using F9 and Shift + F9…
please provide the data within the “biblatex source” tab of the entry editor. It really would help debugging this issue.
JabRef’s entry preview is based on https://citationstyles.org/, but since “citation style language” is a different standard than “bibtex” and “biblatex”, in certain edge cases, there can be conversion issues, but in most cases it works pretty well. Citationstyles from the CSL project get regularly updated (and merged into JabRef), so it could simply be that the CSL code was updated to more closely follow the APA style. There are whole books about what and how citations should look like. There are many edge cases, so maybe there are cases, where the DOI is supposed to now show. Without real data from your entry, we cannot evaluate if it is a bug or rather one of the edge cases.
