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Biblatex: first names in text only for some sources - why?
If two different authors have the same surname, biblatex adds the first name to identify each of them. (You may add the uniquename=false option to change this behavior.)
Ex:
\documentclass{article}
\...
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Is there a way to apply Apa 7th references and citation style in latex?
The version of apacite currently available on CTAN (v6.03 2013/07/21) implements the requirements of the 6th edition of the APA manual. I am not aware of any BibTeX implementation of 7th-ed. APA style....
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Natbib: Multiple citations with page numbers in one bracket
Here is an alternative solution:
\citetext{\citealp[p.~1]{ref1}; \citealp[p.~2]{ref2}}
gives
(ref1, p. 1; ref2, p. 2)
In your case:
\citetext{\citealp[p.~3]{adams03}; \citealp[p.~5]{collier09}}
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Natbib: Multiple citations with page numbers in one bracket
Also consider the \citealp syntax described at http://merkel.texture.rocks/Latex/natbib.php
You still need to bring your own parentheses and semicolons, but the syntax is slightly more compact than ...
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\bibliographystyle{apalike} invalid
You are mixing commands from two different bibliography methods. The \bibliographystyle command cannot be used with biblatex, and is used with a different bibliography package such as natbib or ...
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BibTeX style with "et al" in italic
I suggest you proceed as follows:
Find the file apalike.bst in your TeX distribution. Make a copy of this file and name the copy, say, apalike-etal-in-italics.bst. (Don't edit the original copy of ...
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biblatex-apa: always use shortauthor in text
You can use the little piece of code
\makeatletter
\AtEveryCitekey{\ifnameundef{shortauthor}{}{\def\cbx@apa@ifnamesaved{\@firstoftwo}}}
\makeatother
It resets the test to check if the name has been ...
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Isn't the title of the book supposed to be italicized in apa?
To answer the question in the title of your query: That would be a "Yes".
The reason you are not getting this outcome is that you are not using the @incollection entry type correctly.
You ...
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Is there a recommended way to replace \cite with \parencite?
You could
\let\cite\parencite
but I'm not too fond of that, in fact I cringe every time I have to see this.
Normally \letting around commands willy-nilly might have (unforeseeable, bad) consequences,...
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Case protection with emphasis in biblatex
The sentence casing function for biblatex is implemented in LaTeX. BibTeX's sentence casing, on the other hand, is implemented in BibTeX directly. That means that there are some subtle and not so ...
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style=apa causes bibliography to fail
biblatex-apa has been updated to use the new commands introduced in biblatex 3.5, if you still have this problem, make sure to update your biblatex styles. The modifications described in the answer ...
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How can I implement a comprehensive apa-style citation and bibliography
Three suggestions:
Don't load both the apacite and the natbib packages; instead, run either
\usepackage{apacite}
or
\usepackage[natbibapa]{apacite}
(Use the latter if you wish to use the natbib-...
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default bibliography style in memoir class
Some comments and observations:
The memoir document class neither provides nor expects any particular bibliography style.
If you want to use natbib-like commands such as \citet and \citep while ...
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Setting maxcitenames for biblatex-apa
biblatex-apa does not obey maxcitenames since the code to implement the APA more-names-on-first-citations-one-et-al-on-subsequent-citations rule is a bit complicated to implement.
The five author ...
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Error when citing in the frontmatter (Spanish)
This is not a complete answer, for I cannot figure out how things are interacting here, or the reason why they break. But I was able to pin down the source of the problem, and it has to do with babel'...
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How can I remove the comma after journal name and before volume in my bst description?
I suggest you proceed as follows:
Open your modified copy of apalike.bst in a text editor. (The program you use to edit your tex files will do fine.)
Immediately after the function output.check, add ...
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Biblatex APA style does not support editor types?
The bibstrings that biblatex-apa uses for editortype are called type<editortype> and type<editortype>s, so you have to define those as well.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=apa, ...
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Biblatex APA citation with parentheses
For real APA citations you want to use the package biblatex-apa (7th-edition APA style) or biblatex-apa6 (6th-edition APA style).
With biblatex-apa use style=apa,. With biblatex-apa6 you'd use style=...
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Resolving conflict between apalike and amsbook
As cfr has observed this is unrelated to tcolorbox The issue is that apalike is incompatible with amsbook. In particular it is not expecting that un-numbered \chapter* entries are written to the ...
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Get both unsrtnat and APA style using natbib
I've solved this issue myself by modifying the unsrnat.bst file. I mixed it up with code snippets from the apa-ben.bst and apalike.bst file, and fixed some whitespace issues regarding urls within the ...
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Problems with "retrieved from" in bibliography produced by BibLaTeX (APA style)
Update: With biblatex-apa version 7.5 or above and biblatex version 3.8 or above (released in November 2017) and explicit \DeclareLanguageMapping should not be needed for biblatex-apa any more. The ...
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Adding symbols to the beginning of certain references in the reference list
You can define a new entry option extsymb where you can give an arbitrary symbol to be printed before the entry in the bibliography
\makeatletter
\providecommand{\bib@extsym}{}
\DeclareEntryOption[...
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APA style not working
Your document class currently loads the natbib citation package and specifies abbrvnat as the bibliography style. Once one \bibliographystyle directive is issued, all later ones are ignored. This ...
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How can I implement a comprehensive apa-style citation and bibliography
The best current implementation of a true APA style is the biblatex-apa style. Here's a sample document using it. If you want to use the 'Retrieved from' field, you need to name it correctly, the ...
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How to cite both editions of a book
Biblatex with Biber should do the trick with that type of file including some sort of crossref:
@book{texttocite,
title={Title},
author={Author},
year={Year},
publisher={Publisher},
related={...
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Starting fancyhdr from title page
As far as I have understood you would like a running head on your title page. You can do it by adding a fancypagestyle as in example below:
\documentclass[12pt, letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage{...
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Display URL in natbib and apalike-fr references
You can use apacite like here:
\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{Statista2017,
author = {Statista},
title = {{Global mobile data traffic from 2016 to 2021 (...
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Why are my notes not showing while using apa style with biblatex?
In addition to the comments above, this is how to patch the @online entry type driver to include the note field.
Have a look in the file apa.bbx and find the online driver (search for \...
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How remove links from apacite
I don't see any option for turning this off selectively. The following is a bit of a hack but it works. It redefines the apacite URL environment to be empty, and then in that environment only ...
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apalike bibliography changes to numbers suddenly
The natbib documentation states:
The natbib package will automatically switch to numerical mode if any one of the \bibitem entries fails to conform to the possible author–year formats. There is no ...
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