At the beginning I used
\usepackage{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{apa}
and I really like the author-year notation. The result looks fine, but it's English and this time my seminar thesis is written in german. Within the text and the bibliography I need to change the conjunction "and" into "und", and substitute some more vocab like "pages, volume" etc.
There were some suggestions to this issue and the most promising is:
\usepackage[natbibapa]{apacite}
\bibliographystyle{apacite}
I only need two implementations:
- a cite-version "Smith et al. (2000)" in running text
- and a citep-version "(Smith et al., 2000)" in parathesis
At the moment the apacite-solution alternative citet doesnt work for me, so all my \cite-refs are missing (questions marks within my text).
Another small but important issue are two options for the \citep
- \citep[zitiert nach:][S. 6]{sedlacek2011economics}
Doesn't work anymore. On the other hand a minimal example works very well for me:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,titlepage,headinclude,bibliography=totoc]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[colorlinks, linkcolor = black, citecolor = black, filecolor = black, urlcolor = black, pdfborder ={0 0 0}, pdfstartview={FitH}, bookmarksopenlevel=1]{hyperref}
\hypersetup{colorlinks=true, linkcolor=black}
\usepackage[natbibapa]{apacite}
\bibliographystyle{apacite}
\begin{document}
I test my syntax with cite like this \cite{beck2014behavioral} and \citet{nudge2008}. And the citep command with \cite[S. 10]{nudge2008}. This also works with double citation \cite[zitiert nach:][S. 10]{nudge2008}
\bibliography{Ref}
\end{document}
My main-file blg. report doesn't list any mistakes. I still try to figure out the MWE/mainfile difference ..
Thank you
biblatex
has proper support for language other than English, but it is not compatible with ye olde.bst
files (and thus alsoapa.bst
) it uses a different systems for bibliography styles. If you don't have to use a particular.bst
file (and don't submit to a journal that does), this might be an option for you, the package has author-year styles as well. Thegermbib
bundle hasgerapali.bst
a German version ofapalike
.apa.bst
yourself and change all the English words to their German counterparts. Theapacite
package seems to speak German as well. See also Wie formatiere ich ein Bibtex Literaturverzeichnis für eine deutschsprachige Ausgabe nach den Regeln der APA?.biblatex-apa
on the link. See Biblatex with Biber: Configuring my editor to avoid undefined citations for that. If it still doesn't work you need to have a look at the.log
and.blg
files. (If you don't need to follow real hard-core APA style, you might find that usingbiblatex
with juststyle=authoryear
- or similar - also suits your needs.)apacite
package with the optionnatbibapa
and (b) specifying theapacite
bibliography style? (After making these changes, be sure to delete all aux files and run LaTeX, BibTeX, and LaTeX twice more to fully propagate all changes.) Assuming you're also loadingbabel
with the optionngerman
, this setup should give you German-based citation callout and bibliography formatting features. Passing the optionnatbibapa
toapacite
ensures that you can continue to use\citep
and\citet
.