Underlined journal names in bibliographystyle of apacite with natbibapa option

Question

I am using these commands:

\usepackage[natbibapa]{apacite}

and later:

\bibliographystyle{apacite}

I would like to keep the natbib option because my text already uses citep and citet a lot. The reason why I am using apacite is because I need ampersand ('&') between author names (instead of 'and'). So the citiations in text and paranthesis are correct, but the References section has a strange format:

1) Journal names are underlined,

2) Pulications with several authors uses "..." to abbreviate names.

I would like the bibliographystyle not to underline Journal names but rather follow "normal" conventions. Any ideas?

Answer 1

The package apacite does no underlining. The problem could be in you loading

\usepackage{ulem}

Note that underlining for emphasis is a typographical device that eminent typographers consider very bad. It can have its uses for special notation, but it should never be used for emphasis.

Answer 2

You should use biblatex with style=apa and natbib option. For the problem created by ulem, if you need its functionalities, you can load it with option normalem or use soulutf8 instead:

\documentclass[12pt,american, a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
%\usepackage{soulutf8}%
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=apa, natbib, backend=biber]{biblatex}
\DeclareLanguageMapping{american}{american-apa}

\begin{filecontents}{apatest.bib}
@Article{BRW,
Title = {The determinants of undergraduate degree performance: how important is gender?},
Author = {Barrow, Michael and Reilly, Barry and Woodfield, Ruth},
Journal = {British Educational Research Journal},
Year = {2009},
Number = {4},
Pages = {575-597},
Volume = {35},

Doi = {10.1080/01411920802642322},
Eprint = {link},
Url = {link}
}
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{apatest.bib}

\begin{document}
Text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text. \cite{McNabb}.

\nocite{*}

\printbibliography

\end{document} 

Note that natbib is a compatibility option that emulates natbib commands, whose functionality is otherwise available in biblatex.