customizing apa style in biblatex

Question

I am trying to create a document where citations follow the authoryear styling and bibliography follows the apa.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage[style=apa,backend=biber]{biblatex}
\ExecuteBibliographyOptions{maxnames=99}
\usepackage{csquotes}
 \DeclareLanguageMapping{american}{american-apa}
\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{test.bib} 
@article{citation01,
Author = {LastName1, FirstName1 and LastName2, FirstName2 and LastName3, FirstName3 and LastName4, FirstName4 and LastName5, FirstName5 and LastName6, FirstName6 and LastName7, FirstName7 and LastName8, FirstName8},
Journal = {A journal name},
Number = {3},
Pages = {22--38},
Title = {A Title name},
Volume = {4},
Year = {2011}}
 @article{citation02,
Author = {LastName1, FirstName1 and LastName2, FirstName2 and LastName3, FirstName3 and LastName4, FirstName4 and LastName5, FirstName5 and LastName6, FirstName6 and LastName7, FirstName7 and LastName8, FirstName8},
Journal = {A journal name2},
Number = {3},
Pages = {22--38},
Title = {A Title name2},
Volume = {4},
Year = {2011}}

\end{filecontents}

\bibliography{test.bib}

\begin{document}

\textcite{citation01} and \textcite{citation02}.

\printbibliography

\end{document}

The output of the above file is:

1) The full author list is not generated at the bibliography section.

2)

• One option I tried was changing maxcitenames (setting it to 1).
• Another option was using citestyle (=authoryear) and bibstyle (=apa) while loading.

Both of them failed.

Citation desired would be

LastName1 et al. (2011a) and LastName1 et al. (2011b)

and bibliography would include the full author list.

Any help is much appreciated!

Answer 1

From the biblatax-apa manual: (p.6)

The \maxprtauth commands returns the number of author/editor names which are printed. APA style defaults to 7. You can reset this after loading biblatex with, for example, \renewcommand{\maxprtauth}{25} if you really want to fully print all author list references in certain contexts (for example in a CV where you are an author in position 8 ...)

So the solution to your problem is to add

\renewcommand{\maxprtauth}{99}

to your document.

You should be aware that the format that biblatex-apa uses is the one required by the APA.