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 should follow the referencing style used by the American Psychological Association. You are referred to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Sixth Edition, ISBN 978-1-4338-0561-5. APA's in-text citations require the author's last name and the year of publication. You should cite publications in the text, for example, (Smith, 2016). However, you should not use [Smith, 2016].
I'm using LyX and tried adding \usepackage{apacite}
but it gave way too many errors. I tried searching for a solution and came across this question: apacite not working in tex
Based on the answer there I added authoryear
in the document class and added the line \usepackage{apalike}
and \bibliographystyle{apalike}
.
This time the document compiled without errors but the referencing within text ins not APA. I should be getting
(Smith, 2016)
however all my within text references are:
Smith (2016)
Would appreciate some help here.
MWE below:
\documentclass[12pt,5p,times,twocolumn,authoryear]{elsarticle}
\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{verbatim}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\makeatletter
\usepackage{apalike}
\@ifundefined{showcaptionsetup}{}{%
\PassOptionsToPackage{caption=false}{subfig}}
\usepackage{subfig}
\makeatother
and
\bibliographystyle{apalike}
and a reference from my bib file:
% This file was created with JabRef 2.11.
% Encoding: Cp1252
@InProceedings{Xiong2015,
Title = {Text-independent writer identification using SIFT descriptor and contour-directional feature},
Author = {Xiong, Yu-Jie and Wen, Ying and Wang, Patrick SP and Lu, Yue},
Booktitle = {Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2015 13th International Conference on},
Year = {2015},
Pages = {91--95},
Publisher = {IEEE}
}
natbib
orbiblatex
?\usepackage{natbib}
in my LaTeX preambles. However adding it in did not change anything.\usepackage{natbib}
appear as\RequirePackage{natbib}
in your class definition. Anyway, I think a minimal working example (MWE) would help us help you!\citep
instead of\cite
or\citet
?