I am using the BibLaTeX APA style to cite and generate a bibliography for a university assignment. However, I am finding problems in the way newspapers and websites are appearing in the bibliography when compared to APA website references and APA newspaper references.
Example code is:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % Required for inputting international characters
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % Output font encoding for international characters
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage[autostyle=true]{csquotes} % Required to generate language-dependent quotes in the bibliography
\usepackage[style=apa, backend=biber]{biblatex}
%\usepackage[backend=biber,style=authoryear,citestyle=apa]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{bib_test_lib.bib} % The filename of the bibliography
\begin{document}
Add citations for bibliography to appear \parencite{thomasWhyDidAirbus2019, wallHowAirbusA3802019}.
Also over-rode addinfo2 macro to stop [newspaper], [magazine] etc. being appended to the title field - \textbackslash renewbibmacro*{addinfo2}\{\}.
\renewbibmacro*{addinfo2}{}
\printbibliography[title=References]
Should be (with incorrect indentations):
\section*{References should be}
\noindent Thomas, D. (2019, February 14). Why did the Airbus A380 fail? \emph{BBC News.} https:/\slash www.bbc.com\slash news\slash business-47225789
\noindent Wall, R., \& Michaels, D. (2019, February 19). How Airbus’s A380 Went From Wonder to Blunder; World’s largest passenger plane was hurt by misjudged market trends, internal dysfunction and production problems. \emph{Wall Street Journal (Online)}.
\end{document}
The bibliography file content (generated from Zotero) is:
@article{thomasWhyDidAirbus2019,
title = {Why Did the {{Airbus A380}} Fail?},
author = {Thomas, Daniel},
date = {2019-02-14},
journaltitle = {BBC News},
url = {https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47225789},
urldate = {2020-08-20},
abstract = {It was billed as the future of air travel, but airlines increasingly saw the jet as too big and inefficient.},
entrysubtype = {newspaper},
file = {D\:\\Users\\Michael\\Zotero\\storage\\R3NSWI6X\\business-47225789.html},
journalsubtitle = {Business},
langid = {british}
}
@online{wallHowAirbusA3802019,
title = {How {{Airbus}}'s {{A380 Went From Wonder}} to {{Blunder}}; {{World}}'s Largest Passenger Plane Was Hurt by Misjudged Market Trends, Internal Dysfunction and Production Problems},
author = {Wall, Robert and Michaels, Daniel},
date = {2019-02-19},
journaltitle = {Wall Street Journal (Online)},
file = {D\:\\Users\\Michael\\Zotero\\storage\\BEVIACL9\\18.html}
}
The generated bibliography entries appear as (with incorrect indentations):
Thomas, D. (2019). Why did the Airbus A380 fail? BBC News: Business. Retrieved August 20, 2020, from https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47225789
Wall, R., & Michaels, D. (2019, February 19). How Airbus's A380 Went From Wonder to Blunder; World's largest passenger plane was hurt by misjudged market trends, internal dysfunction and production problems.
Where the bibliography should appear as:
Thomas, D. (2019, February 14). Why did the Airbus A380 fail? BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47225789
Wall, R., & Michaels, D. (2019, February 19). How Airbus's A380 Went From Wonder to Blunder; World's largest passenger plane was hurt by misjudged market trends, internal dysfunction and production problems. Wall Street Journal (Online).
The 'Thomas' reference, which is tagged as a newspaper, should have a long date field after the author. The 'Wall' reference is missing the website title.
I would be satisfied if I could change the newspaper entry to use the long date format (that way I could reclassify the above webpage as a newspaper), but I am getting lost looking through the apa.bbx file to find out what is going on here.
I'm using Windows 10, MiKTeX Console 4.01, TeXstudio 2.12.22, and updated all packages on 21 AUG 20 prior to asking the question.
PS Is this worth an issue report on CTAN, as the APA style package isn't matching the APA style examples on their website?
