bibnewpage option using apacite not working

Question

I am having difficulty with getting the references to show on a new page using apacite. According to the documentation the bibnewpage option should do it, but it is not happening. It is displaying the citation and references fin, just not showing it on a new page. I am also have the natbibapa option.

\documentclass{article}

\begin{filecontents}{test.bib}
@article{author99,
title = {A fine title},
year = {1899},
author = {An Author and Another Bauthor and Yeta Cauthor},
journal = {Madness}
}
@article{author05,
title = {The best title},
year = {1905},
author = {An Author and More Dauthors and Whois Thisauthor and Heis Thatauthor},
journal = {Insanity}
}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass{apa6e}
\usepackage[american]{babel}

\usepackage[natbibapa,bibnewpage]{apacite}

\usepackage{comment}

\begin{comment}
citation commands
\citep Parenthetical citation
\citet Text citation
\citeauthor Author only (text citation)
\citeyear Year only (no parentheses)
\citeyearpar Year citation (with parentheses)
\citealp Parenthetical citation without the parentheses
\citealt Text citation without the parentheses
\citenum Number of the reference
\nocite No citation, only reference list entry
\Citep etc. Capitalized citation
\citep* etc. Full author lists
\shortcites Short author lists
\defcitealias Dene alias (e.g., DSM-IV )
\citepalias Parenthetical citation of alias
\citetalias Text citation of alias
\citetext Arbitrary text within citation parentheses
\end{comment}

\bibliographystyle{apacite}

\begin{document}


\title{Title of Paper}
\shorttitle{Short title}
\author{Name}
\authornote{This is an assignment for .}
\abstract{abstract text }
\date{\today} % or \date{24Jan11} for example


The time has come for all good men to come to the aid of their country test
 \citep{author05}.  According to \citet{author05}, the time has come for all good men to come to the aid of their country.



\bibliography{./test}
\end{document}
...

Note, according to the APA 6 manual (p. 36), "Start the reference list on a new page. The word References should appear in uppercase and lowercase letters, centered. Double-space all reference entries. APA publishes references in hanging indent format, meaning that the first line of each reference is set flush left and subsequent lines are indented." Using the apa6e and apacite with the bibnewpage option does not produce a reference list on a new page. It puts the reference list after the last paragraph on the same page. I tried to enter a \newpage before the bibliography , but that didn't work.

Thanks!

Answer 1

This seems to be a bug in apacite.sty: if the natbibapa package option is not used, the bibnewpage option behaves as expected but, as soon as natbibapa (which internally loads natbib) is used, the bibliographical section doesn't start in a new page.

One way to have the bibliographical section starting in a new page would be to use

\let\oldthebibliography\thebibliography
\renewcommand\thebibliography{\clearpage\oldthebibliography}

in the preamble of the document, as the following example shows:

\documentclass{apa6e}
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage[natbibapa,bibnewpage]{myapacite}
\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{test.bib}
@article{author99,
title = {A fine title},
year = {1899},
author = {An Author and Another Bauthor and Yeta Cauthor},
journal = {Madness}
}
@article{author05,
title = {The best title},
year = {1905},
author = {An Author and More Dauthors and Whois Thisauthor and Heis Thatauthor},
journal = {Insanity}
}
\end{filecontents}

\bibliographystyle{apacite}

\let\oldthebibliography\thebibliography
\renewcommand\thebibliography{\clearpage\oldthebibliography}

\begin{document}

\title{Title of Paper}
\shorttitle{Short title}
\author{Name}
\authornote{This is an assignment for .}
\abstract{abstract text }
\date{\today} % or \date{24Jan11} for example


The time has come for all good men to come to the aid of their country test
 \citep{author05}.  According to \citet{author05}, the time has come for all good men to come to the aid of their country.

\bibliography{./test}
\end{document}