{apa-style} is about bibliography questions using the style of the American Psychological Association. Use this tag in addition to the tag for the specific package you use to implement the style.
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First lines in the bibliography list are indented when I use numbering in apa style
I want my references numbered and appear the following order: author, year, title, etc...
When I use apa.bst style with the natbib code:
\usepackage[round,numbers]{natbib}
the first line of each ...
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Biblatex and apa style: reviewauthor undefined warning
I get the warning,
Package biblatex warning: Macro 'reviewauthor' undefined
when running the following,
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
...
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How to modify apalike.bst to have a colon (:) instead of period (.) after “author (year)”?
I already modified apalike.bst to some of my needs, but I can't find this one -- which part do I have to change to have it include a colon after "author (year)" instead of a period .?
(I am using ...
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Using biblatex-apa
I got biblatex working with the authoryear style in Texlipse:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[canadian]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=authoryear,backend=biber]{biblatex}
...
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Biblatex and apasoft style [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Adding an [AuthorYear] block at the beginning of bibliography entries
I am trying to get the best of both worlds: I want to take advantage of the URL capabilitites of ...
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German APA reference: origyear field is incomplete (needs reprinttitle)
I use LuaTeX, BibLaTeX and biber with APA bibliography style. The German version has the origyear field wrong.
The original english APA version wants it like this:
Author (Year). Title. Location: ...
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How to add References in Bibliography without a specific Author
I want to refer to a report available on a particular site. Although some human being must have compiled the report, but there isn't any reference to any specific name. Which BibTeX attribute should I ...
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Formatting apalike-url.bst link to reference
I am using apalile-url.bst to get APA references formatting, but I want to format the reference link when I am using a URL, for example when I reference a URL I get.
this is a url reference ...
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I want to use the apa bibliography style [closed]
I am trying to use the APA style using apacite bibliography style. The bibliography is generated very well but my problem are the citation themselves in the actual document. They just show author ...
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English / German APA reference fails partly - “retrieved from” and “origyear” untranslated
I have a problem with my multilingual APA reference. I use LuaTeX, BibLaTeX and biber. I use the BibLaTeX option babel=other to activate language switching. Switching gets done by adding an ...
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How to add page numbers to APA citations in ConTeXt?
I have created a basic document with APA citations using the course code for creating bibliographies in MK IV in APA format, as found at the ConTeXt garden:
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Antichronological ordering of references in moderncv using apacite
I'm using the moderncv documentclass to create my CV and I need the reference list to adhere to the APA guidelines. I know biblatex provides sorting options but unfortunately moderncv does not support ...
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Style-independent way in BibTeX to cite a web page as a source [closed]
I know how to cite a web page in BibTeX, but the method proposed is not style-independent.
That is, it suffers from not having metadata for the access date and URL (it's a hack to put the access ...
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Bibliography Issue apacite: Argument of \@@cite has an extra } [closed]
I am having an issue when citing references within my thesis. I use the apacite package. Below is the basic structure of the code:
\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage{apacite}
\begin{document}
...
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Ambiguity feature in apa style for biber creating non-apa-like et al behavior
we are currently experiencing some issues with the ambiguity feature of apa for biblatex/biber (we use biber) in TexLive 2012. What would be correct with the ambiguity feature:
Doe J., Peters M., ...
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apacite with newapa in spanish (apacite + newapa en español)?
I was using apacite in Spanish, but I had a problem because instead of "et al" used to appear something like "y cols." which was wrong.
After looking at another answer, I've found that if I use:
%
...
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Supress initials of authors in biblatex-apa intext
I am referring to exactly the same issue as RSoul in his post a while ago:
Apacite: suppress initials intext?
However, I am looking for a solution with the biblatex-apa using biber-backend. It would ...
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Capitalize no date “n.d.” in in-text citation with apacite style
Is there a way to capitalize the "n.d." or no date in in-text citation in LaTeX? As in:
Lorem ipsum (Doe, n.d.) to Lorem Ipsum (Doe, N.D.)
Or for the sake of it is there a way to customize "n.d." ...
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Apacite - Different citation output for multiple authors
I have a question that I haven't been able to solve, even though I got through the documentation , web pages and apacite.bst code (although I'm quite new with this stuff). The problem is as follows:
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bibnewpage option using apacite not working
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 ...
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Fixing JAIR style
According to the Eigenfactor ranking of journals, the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) is a leading open-access journal in AI. Unfortunately, the JAIR style files appear to be ...
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bibliography does not appear using a template which uses apalike style
When I compile the tex provided in the following template, the bibliography does not appear, and I don't understand why. I'm using Texmaker on windows, and I've already tried to compile with BibTex ...
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How to obtain the width of a column within the APA document class?
I am using the APA document class. My document has some tables:
\documentclass[jou]{apa}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\title{This is the title}
\author{This is the author}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
...
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Apalike-letters and non-English (Polish) characters (alphabibitem) [closed]
I'm using apalike-letters bibliography style which inserts heading for each first letter of authors' names. It works well for English letters but when a name starts with Polish letter it starts to get ...
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Displaying BibTeX item in References without label
I'm using apalike-letters bibliography style and the references are displayed like this:
Is it possible to hide the label in each reference? So that the display be:
Alsop, K., Fereday, S., ...
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Separator for citing multiple sources in BibTeX without natbib
I'm using apalike-letters bibliography style and when citing multiple sources a comma is used to separate them:
How can I modify this to use semicolon instead of comma? I've changed every comma to ...
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How to do APA referencing [closed]
I am new to LaTeX. Can somebody please show me how to do APA referencing in LaTeX? I am using Texmaker and TexnicCenter. I guess I need basic help.
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How to suppress insertion of letter labels after year for references from the same year
I hope this is a simple question, but I've been googling it all evening and haven't made much progress. I am currently working on converting my CV to LaTeX (which is going quite well), but I've come ...
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1answer
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Last visited URL in apa style
I'm using the apa-good.bst file to typeset my bibliography in APA style. I need to include something like "Last visited..." (using the urldate variable) when I cite a webpage but I don't know how I ...
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Beamer: Changing the font size of the references using the shrink argument causes an error
I'm trying to change the font size of the references using the shrink of the frame argument.
However, if I run this code:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[american]{babel}
...
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Beamer: Strange spacing in references with biblatex apa-style
I stumbled upon these two spacing errors (marked with red numbers):
I guess the first space is not really an error, but simply English spacing (\nonfrenchspacing). Can it be turned off (without ...
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How to set parindent in apa class?
Usually one can adjust paragraph indent with
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
but that fails for the apa class. Is there another way to get rid of this indents in this class?
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biblatex-apa — biber
I'm using LaTeX for four days now and I have a problem with the biblatex-apa style.
Here is the important part of my header:
\documentclass[
a4paper,
12pt,
%twocolumn,
...
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biblatex-apa: undefined references
I cannot, for the life of me, get biblatex's apa style to work. Other biblatex styles work fine, apa, however, does neither print a reference list, nor produce a citation at all (single output is key ...
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biblatex-apa does not print reference list and prints reference codes [closed]
I am new to latex and i am using biblatex-apa. I am using \parencite{} and \textcite{}. I am running into two problems (there is no message error when running latex)
1) does not print the reference ...
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APA formatting and changing the parameters
So my teacher is being really picky with the APA formatting of my paper and I decided to use LaTeX to typeset my paper (currently its 21 pages). I used the package \usepackage[man]{apa} which has ...
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natbib authoryear error [closed]
I'm getting natbib error:
Bibliography not compatible with author-year citations.
The 'help' says
Check the bibliography entries for non-compliant syntax, or select author-year Bibtex style ...
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Can you invoke stylizing commands in a .bib-file when using the BiBLaTeX apa package?
This question has been heavily rewritten. That's why some of the comments and answers might be a little bit odd (they were responses to earlier versions of the question).
I'm using the BiBLaTeX apa ...
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Using “and” instead of ampersand in natbib in-text citations (“\citet”)
I am using natbib and a modified \bibliographystyle that approximates the APA style (downloaded from here: http://web.reed.edu/cis/help/latex/images/apa-good.bst.zip).
The only problem is this: In ...
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xelatex and apa
I am using biblatex to format my references.
Document is book and is written in greek.
References are mainly english but I have some in greek as well.
While the authoryear style works very well, the ...
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APA Master's thesis?
Has anyone written a Master's thesis in APA with LaTeX (preferably LyX)? The documentation for apa.cls says "do not use this for your thesis", but I can't find any alternative on the web.
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biblatex-apa and hyperref: right parenthesis not part of link for \textcite
I use biblatex-apa citation style. I also use hyperref with colour links, rather than ugly coloured boxes. When I use \textcite the author name and year are both part of the link, but the right ...
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How to make biblatex behave like apacite?
The title is probably too broad. The problem I face is that I am working on a beamer presentation, and because beamer conflicts with apacite, it has been suggested that biblatex be used instead. I ...
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Biblatex, apa-style, polyglossia and multilingual-bibliography
For my scientific article I need to use some sources that are in Korean, which is why I've switched from using pdflatex\bibtex to xelatex and biber.
I've managed to get biblatex with apa style ...
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Polyglossia and biblatex-apa
I am trying to typeset a document in British English, using XeLaTeX, Polyglossia and BibLaTeX, with APA-style references.
Unfortunately, I get the following error:
! Undefined control sequence.
...
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Mimic BibTeX “apalike” with BibLaTeX - (biblatex-apa broken?)
I am trying to move on to BibLaTeX. With BibTeX the Style apalike provides everything I need, as illustrated by the following MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{natbib}
...
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Line breaking (or hyphenation?) of references in apalike
This is a problem I encountered some time ago and I never could solve it: how can you achieve correct line-breaking or hyphenation when citing references with the apalike style?
Here is an example:
...
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Modify list of authors (`format.names` problem)
I am using natbib and started with apa-good.bst and was able to make minor modifications; for example use full-name instead of abbreviated :) But even after reading several tutorials on the "unnamed ...
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customizing apa style in biblatex
I am trying to create a document where citations follow the authoryear styling and bibliography follows the apa.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[american]{babel}
...
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Biblatex: Abbreviating authoring organisations in citations
In my manuscript (apa6) I'm citing a report by the World Health Organisation. The .bib-file entry looks like this:
@techreport{WHO_2001,
Author = {World Health Organization},
Address = {Genf, ...
