APA7 style with publisher and address

Question

I'm using biblatex with biber and "apa" style, which is appearently APA7.

In this style - using an book entry in the .bib file - the publisher and the address is not printed in the bibliography.

How can i achieve to print the full address of the publisher as in APA6 and the following example (note: publisher was removed using \DeclareSourcemap)

I'm looking forward to your help.

Answer 1

According to https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples/book-references @book references should show the publisher, but not the location/address field in APA7 style.

This is exactly what happens if you use an up-to-date version of biblatex-apa.

\documentclass[american]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}

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

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@book{elk,
  author    = {Anne Elk},
  title     = {A Theory on Brontosauruses},
  year      = {1972},
  publisher = {Monthy \& Co.},
  location  = {London},
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\begin{document}
Lorem \autocite{sigfridsson,elk}

\printbibliography
\end{document}

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If you want 6th edition APA style, where both publisher and location are shown, you should load biblatex-apa6's style=apa6,

\documentclass[american]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}

\usepackage[backend=biber, style=apa6]{biblatex}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@book{elk,
  author    = {Anne Elk},
  title     = {A Theory on Brontosauruses},
  year      = {1972},
  publisher = {Monthy \& Co.},
  location  = {London},
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\begin{document}
Lorem \autocite{sigfridsson,elk}

\printbibliography
\end{document}

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If you absolutely need biblatex-apa's 7th-edition APA style to show the location (which is not APA compliant), you can try to patch the drivers like this

\documentclass[american]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}

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

\usepackage{xpatch}

\xpatchbibdriver{book}
  {\printlist{publisher}}
  {\usebibmacro{location+publisher}}
  {}{}
\xpatchbibdriver{inbook}
  {\printlist{publisher}}
  {\usebibmacro{location+publisher}}
  {}{}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@book{elk,
  author    = {Anne Elk},
  title     = {A Theory on Brontosauruses},
  year      = {1972},
  publisher = {Monthy \& Co.},
  location  = {London},
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\begin{document}
Lorem \autocite{sigfridsson,elk}

\printbibliography
\end{document}