Questions tagged [apa-style]
{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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apacite+bibtopic: how not to print heading
I need to give multiple bibliography list in tex file in APA style.
Here's an example code:
\documentclass[letterpaper, 12pt, draft]{report}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{apacite}
\...
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LyX says apalike isn't compatible with author-year?
I am pretty new to LyX, and have no expirience with LaTeX. I'm writing my master's thesis in LyX, though, and I'm supposed to turn it in in a week. I want my bibliography to be "apa-ish", and have set ...
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Biblatex-apa: numbered, annotated bibliography using \fullcitebib?
EDIT #3: The code below has been updated to what I'm currently using, from the post at https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/91381/24264; note that I've added a field to my bibentry (annote) as part of this ...
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biblatex-apa update appears to print the year of the citation twice
biblatex-apa was updated on the 20th and it appears to be broken. All my references now appear as "Smith (20082008)"
This is really weird. Why is this happening? I've gone back to authoryear-comp for ...
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Book edition string for APA style of biblatex in Spanish
I am using the APA style of biblatex for a document written in Spanish. Here is a MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\usepackage[spanish]{babel}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}...
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Renew command for \parencite if db entry type is @online
I need to change the command \parencite for a specific case but I have absolutely no clue how to rewrite ist. Could anyone help me?
What I have as a database entry is this:
@online{ref1,
author = ...
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Biblatex is putting brackets for APA citations instead of the expected (Author, Year) citations
I am attempting to cite a website using biblatex in APA format.
However, it is citing it wrong i.e. an in-text citation looks like the following [1] instead of (Author, Year)
The same goes for the ...
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Biblatex (apa): How to correctly use multiple shortauthors
Using biblatex in combination with the apa style, I would like to cite references with institutional authors. As suggested in a previous post I use the shortauthor field to include abbreviations.
My ...
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Sort bibliographic entries according to first author's surname, then year, disregarding any further authors
I am using natbib and the bibliography style apalike.
This looks fine to me but my supervisor wants the bibliography to be sorted according to 1.) first author's surname, 2.) year.
So, if I have ...
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Trying to get APA work gives Undefined control sequence [duplicate]
I'm trying to get APA working with special characters. I got kind of far with it but it gives me Undefined control sequence on rendering citations.
My minimal source is:
\documentclass[british]{...
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Using APA style referencing in elsarticle class document?
Ive just had my paper sent back to me by the editor of a journal I submitted to and was instructed to change the referencing system of my paper to APA ver. 6 style.
Text: Citations in the text ...
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Remove parentheses around year in apacite
I need to remove parentheses around year in bibliography. I am using apacite.
My setup:
\usepackage{apacite}
\usepackage{natbib}
...
\nocite{*}
\bibliographystyle{apacite}
\bibliography{literature}
...
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Add Comma Before & in reference list
I am relatively new to LaTex and I am using TexMaker on Linux for my thesis. I am using the following code for my document and in particular for my reference list:
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,...
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How do you reference using apa style in latex?
I googled and searched alot or maybe i'm just missing something i dont know.. My problem is i want to do a reference page using apa style. I kept on trying but doesn't seem to give any output.. Anyone ...
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How to get Proper APA referencing format
I'm trying to use reference in apa format for my report.
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,openany]{report}
\usepackage{apacite}
\begin{document}
\bibliographystyle{apacite}
\chapter{Intro}
A traditional ...
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apacite and local language translations
Is there an easy way to change a few things regarding apacite package? I'm particularly looking at the url reference. When compiled apacite says "Retrieved from" but I'd like it to be "Sótt þann" and ...
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How to remove extra space after volume number in References section
When I compile my manuscript, in the references section extra space is added after the volume number. My corrector told me to remove it, but the problem I don't know how to remove it.
MANUSCRIPT.TEX
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Error: class or style file required by it is not available
I'm new to Latex. I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit with Lyx 1.6.7. I had created a modified APA template for school. It works on my Windows XP and Mac OSX systems. But in the Ubuntu system I get an ...
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Bold authors' names in reference list
I try to make the names of authors bold in my bibliography, and keep them normal (unbold) in the document body \cite{Smith2005Latex}. How can I do that?
\documentclass[a4paper,twoside,twocolumn,...
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APA reference format with numbers
I was told by my editor that I need to write the references of my article in APA format. So I went ahead and used the apacite package with \usepackage{apacite} and \bibliographystyle{apacite}.
Now, ...
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Corporate authors not sorted alphabetically
I'm using natbib with the apalike-german.bst and a bibliography in alphabetical order. I need to cite some corporate authors in my thesis. However these are unfortunately not included alphabetically, ...
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Apalike sort as it appears in text [duplicate]
I am currently using \documentclass[12pt,reqno]{amsart}
I am currently using
\bibliographystyle{apalike}
\bibliography{harry}
with
\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}
I want my references ...
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problem with apacite "while executing---line 5079 of file apacite.bst [closed]
there's an error message in my file which i do not understand.
I'm using TeXnicCenter and JabRef/bibtex with the apacite-package.
I get an pdf but there is a space line in between the bibliography. ...
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Make Author's Last name uppercase, leave first name intact and more
I need help adjusting my reference list (not the in-text citation).
I adjusted the existing apalike.bst for capitalization of the author name by inserting the below functions and renaming the file ...
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How to use APA 6 with elsarticle.cls
First, let me tell you that I am a total newbie in Latex.
I am trying to use APA 6 with elsarticle. As far as I get, elsarticle has natbib pre-loaded. Does anyone help me use APA with elsarticle? ...
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apacite error - The style file: apacite.bst Database file #1: ... is a string literal, not a function
I am trying to use the apacite package for referencing however I am having some problems getting it to work.
I am using Ubuntu and the Tex Live distribution so I installed the texlive-bibtex-extra ...
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How can I use natbib and make my reference list resemble apalike?
My question is related to here and here, but I could not yet find a satisfying answer. I will use the same example from this post.
I like the apalike reference style but I have trouble with breaking ...
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Biblatex apa-style citation link issue [closed]
The biblatex apa-citation only link the year other than author-year together.
apa-style:
while the citation of a typical journal paper looks like this:
So how to make the default apa-style citation ...
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APA-Biblatex Problem with amount of authors
I've got a problem with the biblatex-apa version.
Here is the relevant part of my header:
\documentclass[
a4paper,
12pt,
headings=normal
bibtotoc,
pointlessnumbers
]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[babel=...
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How to modify APA Biblatex style to look like "elsarticle-harv" style?
I have been using the \bibliographystyle{elsarticle-harv} style for a long time, since I newly swtiched to biblatex and it is only for natbib, so how to modify the default biblatex style or ...
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style=apa causes bibliography to fail
I need to write an article with APA citations. I have sample code that works fine with style=authoryear, but if I switch to style=apa I get the following error message:
Error Line 21 ! Undefined ...
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How to use \autocite with biblatex-apa?
I'm trying to use \autocite feature with biblatex-apa, but it seems that the \autocite macro is not defined in biblatex-apa 5.7 (and biblatex 2.5). Example code follows:
\documentclass[a4paper]{...
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How to make Manual references appear in bibliography (citing R)
I would like to cite R in my bibliography. However I'm having trouble getting it to appear.
Here my mini.bib files contains
@Book{,
author = {Hadley Wickham},
title = {ggplot2: Elegant Graphics ...
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How can I remove the comma after journal name and before volume in my bst description?
I am using an apparently heavily-edited apalike bst style, which I have to use for some reason.
This style unfortunately outputs a comma between the journal name and the volume number, which is ...
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Remove "&" from bibliography in biblatex
I have the following file:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[backend=biber, style=apa,natbib=true]{biblatex}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\DeclareLanguageMapping{...
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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:
\setupbibtex[database={sample},sort=author]...
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Article in Portuguese, how to get sentence case in bibliography?
I'm writing an article in Portuguese, but where most references have English titles. I'm following the APA citation style. In the bibliography, I'd like to have terms like 'translator', date formats ...
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Biblatex APA citation with parentheses
What style should I use to make the citations rendering as (Einstein, 1915)? Using biblatex on Overleaf
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APA style not working
Reviewing other posts related with APA citation style and parenthetical citation, and packages related with citation style in general, I made a mess, installing too many lines in the code, with natbib,...
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Alignment numbered apalike bibliography style
I prefer the apalike bibliography style with the number in brackets in front (see also this post and this post). However what I am curious about is how to align the first and subsequent text lines ...
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How to include the title of the website in bibliography
I want to include the website title in my bibliography. In the bibtex file (created by Zotero) the website title is stored as journal.
\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{mybib.bib}
@...
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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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customization of the apa-style with biblatex
I'm trying to help a friend who needs to use the apa-style for his dissertation. Two things should be modified since he uses the \footcite command:
The title (of the book) should appear in the ...
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"et" instead of ampersand "&" for French biblatex-apa
I'm using BibLaTeX (APA) in French and I have one little problem:
When I have only two authors, they are cited with the conjunction symbol & whereas I would like the grammatical French conjunction ...
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Using LuaTeX to automate \textcite vs. \nptextcite from biblatex-apa
According to the biblatex-apa documentation (section 4.1), APA dictates that citations inside parentheses should not contain extra parentheses. Therefore, it provides the command
\nptextcite[⟨prenote⟩...
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why no colon after location with biber apa?
MWE:
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=apa,natbib=true]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{/home/joe/...
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Excessive white space in bibliography entry
I am struggling with excessive white space in my bibliography entry. This question has been asked before, but the commonly prescribed advice of including the hyphens option of the url package before ...
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Apalike but sort by last name of first author and year
I would like to use the natbib package in bibtex with the bibliographystyle apalike with a specific type of author-year ordering in the bibliography. I want items to generally be sorted/ordered ...
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Apalike style several languages
I am writting my PhD thesis and I have in the manuscript two version of the introduction: one is in French and the other in English.
I am using the bibliography style apalike.
When using the ...
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Make Biblatex Output Translator in Bibliograohy
I'm quite new Latex so excuse my ignorance. I have translator set in my .bib file however when I use \printbibliography no translator is printed. So currently my reference looks like this:
Surname, ...
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