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Using biblatex in combination with the apa style, I would like to cite references with institutional authors. As suggested in a previous post I use the shortauthor field to include abbreviations.

My issue occurs with references that include multiple institutional authors. Here I would like to use multiple entries in shortauthor as well. But the output I get looks not at all as expected.

Example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{references.bib}
    @BOOK{ACER2015,
      author = {{Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators} and {Council of European Energy Regulators}},
      shortauthor = {{ACER} and {CEER}},       
      title = {{ACER/CEER} Annual Report},
      year = {2015}
    }
    @TECHREPORT{CEER2014,
      author = {{Council of European Energy Regulators}},
      shortauthor = {{CEER}},
      title = {{CEER} Advice},
      year = {2014}
    }
\end{filecontents}
\usepackage[backref=false,style=apa,backend=biber]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{references.bib}

\begin{document}
First reference produces output with unexpected format \parencite{ACER2015}.

Second reference looks correct \parencite{ACER2015}.

A third reference to one of the previous authors produces full output \parencite{CEER2014}.
\end{document}

This produces the following output: enter image description here

The expected output would have been: enter image description here

How can I make use of the shortauthor field to achieve the expected outcome?

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jokat
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  • Imho the code of biblatex-apa doesn't expect multiple shortauthors. Make a feature request: https://github.com/plk/biblatex-apa/issues/ – Ulrike Fischer Nov 17 '16 at 14:19
  • As biblatex seems to support multiple shortauthors, is there an alternative style that appropriately makes use of such entries? – jokat Nov 17 '16 at 19:31

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This isn't really possible in any easy way because you have to match the shortauthor to the relevant author. It would be possible using the annotation feature but this is a bit overkill for putting into the APA style. Isn't this acceptable:?

@BOOK{ACER2015,
  author = {{Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators} and {Council of European Energy Regulators}},
  shortauthor = {{ACER/CEER}},       
  title = {{ACER/CEER} Annual Report},
  year = {2015}
}
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  • This is the only solution that came to my mind as well; I just thought there would be another option. But that doesn't seem to be the case. – jokat Nov 24 '16 at 12:07