biblatex - apa style - need two formatting changes

Question

Yet another APA-style modification for biblatex, sorry folks :/

Please be gentle, I am using Latex about 10 hours now...

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{refs.bib}
@article{GeeraertsEenzondagspakHet2001,
    langid = {dutch},
    title = {Een zondagspak? Het Nederlands in Vlaanderen: gedrag, beleid, attitudes},
    volume = {44},
    journaltitle = {Ons Erfdeel},
    date = {2001},
    pages = {337--344},
    author = {Geeraerts, Dirk}}
}
\end{filecontents*}
\usepackage[style=apa,citestyle=authoryear-ibid,backend=biber]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{refs.bib}

\begin{document}

In 1988 C was totally awesome. \parencite[338]{GeeraertsEenzondagspakHet2001}

\printbibliography 
\end{document}

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I need 2 changes to the output of \printbibliography:

Geeraerts, D. (2001). Een zondagspak? Het Nederlands in Vlaanderen: gedrag, beleid, attitudes. Ons Erfdeel, 44, 337–344.

should be

Geeraerts, D. (2001). Een zondagspak? Het Nederlands in Vlaanderen: gedrag, beleid, attitudes. Ons Erfdeel 44, 337–344.

1. "Geeraerts, D. (2001)." needs to be bold
2. Ons Erfdeel, 44, 337–344. => Ons Erfdeel 44, 337–344.

Close observers can see that "44" is no longer in italics and has lost the comma in front of it.

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I am currently using biblatex because my Zotero exports nicely to that format. I am on Windows 10, MikTeX 2.9.6637, and TexStudio 2.12.6.

Thank you for your help!

[I am wiling to change bib-package if needed]

Answer 1

You are using biblatex-apa, a style that will give you full-blown APA style and not "Harvard style" (Harvard style is not a well defined term and generally means just author-year citations). If you modify anything with biblatex-apa your document is not APA compliant any more.

In general I would avoid heavily customised styles such as biblatex-apa if I do not have to follow the exact style guide that it implements. Customised styles are not designed to allow for heavy modifications, so they can be a bit harder to modify than the standard styles, which were written with the need for easy modification in mind. If the changes you need to apply to biblatex-apa are minute, you may get away with modifying that style. But as soon as the changes get more copious and complicated, one of the standard styles is almost always a better choice.

OK, so what did we do here?

• We modified the author and editorinauthpos macros to turn the author name and year bold. In both of these cases the only thing we did was to add \printtext[bold]{...} around the original definition from apa.bbx.
• With \DeclareFieldFormat[article]{volume}{\apanum{#1}} we made sure that the volume number is not italic any more.
• Finally, in the journal+issuetitle macro (also from apa.bbx) we replaced two commas by spaces to remove the comma before the volume.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{refs.bib}
@article{GeeraertsEenzondagspakHet2001,
    langid = {dutch},
    title = {Een zondagspak? Het Nederlands in Vlaanderen: gedrag, beleid, attitudes},
    volume = {44},
    journaltitle = {Ons Erfdeel},
    date = {2001},
    pages = {337--344},
    author = {Geeraerts, Dirk}}
}
\end{filecontents*}
\usepackage[style=apa,citestyle=authoryear-ibid,backend=biber]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{refs.bib}

\DeclareFieldFormat{bold}{\mkbibbold{#1}}
\renewbibmacro*{author}{%
  \printtext[bold]{%
    \ifnameundef{author}
      {\usebibmacro{labeltitle}}
      {\printnames[apaauthor][-\value{listtotal}]{author}%
       \setunit*{\addspace}%
       \printfield{nameaddon}%
       \ifnameundef{with}
         {}
         {\setunit{}\addspace\mkbibparens{\printtext{\bibstring{with}\addspace}%
          \printnames[apaauthor][-\value{listtotal}]{with}}
          \setunit*{\addspace}}}%
    \newunit\newblock
    \usebibmacro{labelyear+extradate}}}

\renewbibmacro*{editorinauthpos}{%
  \printtext[bold]{%
    \global\booltrue{bbx:editorinauthpos}%
    \printnames[apaauthor][-\value{listtotal}]{editor}%
    \setunit{\addspace}%
    \ifnameundef{editor}
      {}
      {\printtext[parens]{\usebibmacro{apaeditorstrg}{editor}}%
       % need to clear editor so we don't get an "In" clause later
       % But we also need to set a flag to say we did this so we
       % don't lose sight of the fact we once had an editor for
       % various year placement tests
       \clearname{editor}%
       \setunit{\adddot\space}%
       \usebibmacro{labelyear+extradate}%
       \setunit{\adddot\space}}}}

\DeclareFieldFormat[article]{volume}{\apanum{#1}}
\renewbibmacro*{journal+issuetitle}{%
  \usebibmacro{journal}%
  \setunit*{\addspace}%
  \iffieldundef{series}
    {}
    {\newunit
     \printfield{series}
     \setunit{\addspace}}%
  \printfield{volume}%
  \printfield{number}%
  \setunit{\addspace}\newblock
  \usebibmacro{issuename}%
  \newunit}

\begin{document}
In 1988 C was totally awesome. \parencite[338]{GeeraertsEenzondagspakHet2001}

\printbibliography 
\end{document}