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I'm trying to include names of institutions written in Cyrillic in the bibliography list, with the following code:

main.tex

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[T2A]{fontenc}
\usepackage[english,bulgarian]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{apacite}

\begin{document}
    \cite{item:2020}

    \newpage
    \bibliographystyle{apacite}
    \bibliography{resources}
\end{document}

In the resources.bib file there the following:

@article{abstract:2020,
    author  = {И.Иванов, Национална Природоматематическа Гимназия, Софийски Университет "Св. Климент Охридски"},
    title   = {Заглавие},
    journal = {Име},
    year    = {1000},
    volume  = {1},
    number  = {1},
    pages   = {1-2},
} 

Instead of the names of the institutions, i.e. Национална Природоматематическа Гимназия Софийски Университет "Св. Климент Охридски", I get the following:

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Question:

What am I doing wrong? Is there a way to correct it?


Update:

The solution using biblatex+biber as suggested by @Bernard:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[T2A]{fontenc}
\usepackage[english,bulgarian]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[stylename=apa, style=authoryear, backend=biber]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{aparesources.bib}

\begin{document}

   \parencite{abstract:2020}

   \newpage
   \printbibliography

\end{document}

Produces the following error:

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Software used: Overleaf

Compiler: pdfLaTeX

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  • 1
    Did you try with biblatex+biber? biber understands utf8.
    – Bernard
    May 3, 2020 at 11:00
  • @Bernard I just tried, however, it throws an error "too many commas, skipping entry 'abstract:2020'". If I omit the institution names it prints the bibliography list correctly.
    – Ziezi
    May 3, 2020 at 11:31
  • @Bernard I've updated the question.
    – Ziezi
    May 3, 2020 at 12:07
  • 1
    The error message is quite clear: author = {И.Иванов, Национална Природоматематическа Гимназия, Софийски Университет "Св. Климент Охридски"}, has too many commas. Name fields like author have a special input format and only accept properly formatted input. In your case that would probably be author = {И. Иванов}. The rest does not appear to be a name and needs to go elsewhere (or can be dropped; it looks like the affiliation of the author, which is usually not listed in the bibliography).
    – moewe
    May 3, 2020 at 12:25
  • @moewe Thank you for the response! In the specific case the two authors are performing an experiment on students from the listed school using finance from the listed university. That is why the institutions are listed. You are probably right, they should be dropped.
    – Ziezi
    May 3, 2020 at 12:35

1 Answer 1

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Name fields like author expect names as input and they expect them to be formatted according to the rules explained in How should I type author names in a bib file?.

In your case that means that names should not include the academic affiliation of the author. The correct input for your entry would be

author  = {И. Иванов},

or

author  = {Иванов, И.},

Multiple authors would be separated with and

author  = {Иванов, И. and А. Антонов},
author  = {И. Иванов and А. Антонов and Фёдор Достоевский},

It is uncommon to include the academic affiliation in the bibliography, so I suggest you just drop the Национална Природоматематическа Гимназия, Софийски Университет "Св. Климент Охридски" bit.

biblatex is not compatible with

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

so I changed that to

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

But note that since April 2018 \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} has been the LaTeX default, so it need not be given at all. For full Unicode support (especially with fonts) you should be looking into LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX in which case both inputenc and fontenc should be dropped.

Note that biblatex knows no argument stylename, so stylename=apa, will throw an error, so I removed it. If you need APA style, load biblatex with style=apa, (7th. edition APA style) or style=apa6, (6th. edition APA style) [assuming an up-to-date distribution].

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T2A]{fontenc}
\usepackage[english,bulgarian]{babel}

\usepackage[style=authoryear, backend=biber]{biblatex}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{abstract:2020,
  author  = {И. Иванов},
  title   = {Заглавие},
  journal = {Име},
  year    = {1000},
  volume  = {1},
  number  = {1},
  pages   = {1-2},
} 
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}
  \parencite{abstract:2020}

  \printbibliography
\end{document}

produces

Иванов, И. (1000). “Заглавие”. в: Име 1.1, с. 1—2.

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