I have been asked to present my inline citations as "name (year)" rather than "(name, year)" although I'm not sure what this type of citation is called. I have been using the apacite
package so far for citations with bibtex. I would like some assistance to change the way this is presented and which packages to use, thank you.
2 Answers
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[natbibapa]{apacite}
\begin{document}
\cite{doody}
\citep{doody}
\citet{doody}
\bibliographystyle{apacite}
\bibliography{biblatex-examples}
\end{document}
APA style calls the "Author (year)" form narrative citation whereas "(Author, year)" is called parenthetical citation (see e.g. https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/citations/basic-principles/parenthetical-versus-narrative).
In APA style narrative citations are used if the author(s) form a natural part of the flow of your sentence, e.g.
Doody (1974) showed that ...
whereas parenthetical citations are used to give a reference if it does not form natural part of the sentence.
If you want to use standard apacite
(without natbib
/natbibapa
), you can use \citeA
for narrative citations
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{apacite}
\begin{document}
\cite{doody}
\citeA{doody}
\citeNP{doody}
\bibliographystyle{apacite}
\bibliography{biblatex-examples}
\end{document}
biblatex
(the parentheses for the year are missing, but it is easy to patch biblatex commands)