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I want the bibliography in APA style as follow:

"Charnes, A., Cooper, W. W., and Rhodes, E. (1978). Measuring the efficiency of decision making units. European journal of operational research, 2(6):429–444."

while the citation within the text as follow:

"... decisional making units” (Charnes et al., 1978)."

However, when in the preamble I change from:

\usepackage{bibentry}
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\nobibliography*

to:

\usepackage{bibentry}
\bibliographystyle{apalike}
\nobibliography*

the citation within the text turns to:

"... decisional making units” (1)."

ADDITIONAL INFO:

  • In thesis.tex:

    \documentclass[a4paper,12pt,times,authoryear,print,index]{Classes/PhDThesisPSnPDF}

\begin{document}
\begin{spacing}{0.9}
\bibliographystyle{apalike}
\cleardoublepage
\bibliography{References/references}
\printbibliography[heading=bibintoc, title={References}]
\end{spacing}
\end{document}

    Where reference is the folder used to upload file.bibtex as: 

     @article{charnes1978measuring,
  title={Measuring the efficiency of decision making units},
  author={Charnes, Abraham and Cooper, William W and Rhodes, Edwardo},
  journal={European journal of operational research},
  volume={2},
  number={6},
  pages={429--444},
  year={1978},
  publisher={Elsevier}
}

  • In preable.tex

    \usepackage{bibentry}
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\nobibliography*

    where plainnat in \bibliographystyle I use to change with apelike.

  • I cite as follow:

    ... decisional making units” \citep{charnes1978measuring}.

Could please someone help me to get the wanted citation style?

Thank you very much in advance!!

Please let me know if I need to make it more clear. I apologize, I am not an expert in this field. I recently started to use LaTeX.

I am using a template in Overleaf. I did not created it for scratch.

Many thanks!!

Giorgio Musacchia
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    Welcome to TeX.SE! Can you please add a short compilable TeX code building your bibliography to your question? Please do not forget to add the used bib entry too. – Mensch Mar 10 '19 at 21:42
  • If you want full APA style you are better off using apacite or biblatex-apa. apalike is really only like APA and does not satisfy the list of demands of the real APA style. – moewe Mar 10 '19 at 21:47
  • It might help to do something like \setcitestyle{authoryear,open={(},close={)}}. But as Kurt points out, it's hard to tell without you posting a MWE – sheß Mar 10 '19 at 21:48
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    That said, I can not reproduce the output you describe with only the three lines shown in the question. I suggest you show us a complete example document starting with \documentclass that includes the relevant bits of the preamble and an example citation in \begin{document}...\end{document}. Please include a .bib entry as well. This would make for a so-called MWE https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228/35864. An MWE is often the quickest way to a good answer. – moewe Mar 10 '19 at 21:51
  • Thanks everyone for your comments!! I updated the information. Please let me know if additional information are required. Thank you very much! – Giorgio Musacchia Mar 11 '19 at 09:08
  • https://github.com/kks32/phd-thesis-template – Johannes_B Mar 11 '19 at 09:11
  • (1) Do you have to use the template you are using and PhDThesisPSnPDF.cls? The template is quite massive and can easily overwhelm you, especially if you are new to LaTeX. It may also be quite tricky to understand and then change its behaviour. My suggestion is to start with one of the standard document classes and build up your preamble gradually if and when you need new stuff. That helps keep the code cleaner and understandable. Often there are multiple versions of templates like this out in the wild and it can be a pain to find out which version you use and which solutions you need. – moewe Mar 11 '19 at 10:24
  • (2) You seem to mix classic BibTeX and biblatex. (A bit of background is at https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/25701/35864.) The version of the class found on GitHub https://github.com/kks32/phd-thesis-template either loads biblatex, natbib or no package. Your code has \printbibliography, which is a biblatex command. But then you also have \bibliographystyle, which is a BibTeX command. You also issue \bibliography in the document, which can only be done with BibTeX. The package bibentry is also normally associated with BibTeX. – moewe Mar 11 '19 at 10:28
  • My advice would be to throw away the template and to get started with the bibliography using a really minimal setup like the one in https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/13509/35864. – moewe Mar 11 '19 at 10:28
  • Thank you very much to everyone!! Your comments are teaching me a lot! I appreciate the suggestion to start with another easier model. However, I have written around 150 pages of my thesis in this template and I would like to keep it. Do you think it is not possible to get the desired citation style within this template? – Giorgio Musacchia Mar 11 '19 at 14:13
  • It should be overall straightforward if a bit time consuming to migrate your 150 pages from this template to a more minimal set-up (of course there might be the odd tricky bit you come across, but overall it should be possible). Due to the sheer size of the template it is already quite a bit more complicated than necessary to help you, but if you insist on continuing to use the template, you may want to add links to the exact version of the files you are using to your question. – moewe Mar 11 '19 at 14:38
  • Thank you moewe! I would prefer to keep this template, not because of the time required to move the pages to a new one, but because I won't be able to make a nice layout as the one I'm using and I have only one week time. I created two GitHub files with the thesis.tex and the preamble.tex.
    https://github.com/Giorgio22/Giorgio-s-Thesis/commit/641089da131c98d23266e0c1065ecd0379f365bb https://github.com/Giorgio22/Giorgio-s-Thesis/commit/3a2c714cf1049aa03e9646281432a343be854e6a
    and the link of the template version I am using https://github.com/kks32/phd-thesis-template/releases/tag/v2.4     – Giorgio Musacchia Mar 11 '19 at 16:06
  • Do you want real APA style as defined in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association or do you just want something that is like APA ('apalike'), i.e. a style that has author-year citations and a matching bibliography? – moewe Mar 11 '19 at 21:35
  • I would something like this http://homepage.stat.uiowa.edu/~rlenth/ALPHA/apa-tutorial.pdf I do not know why in my case References are listed Name, Surname, Title, Journal, Year instead of --> Surname, Initial name, (year), Title, etc. Thanks a lot @moewe!!! – Giorgio Musacchia Mar 12 '19 at 07:30
  • I created a pull request with the necessary changes at https://github.com/Giorgio22/Giorgio-s-Thesis/pull/1. With these files dropped onto https://github.com/kks32/phd-thesis-template/releases/tag/v2.4 the document compiles and the result are apalike citations/bibliography. – moewe Mar 12 '19 at 07:44
  • thank you very much @moewe, it very appreciated your help. I have tried to make the changes as you suggested, also by simply using only %\usepackage{natbib} %\bibliographystyle{apalike} %\setcitestyle{authoryear,open={((},close={))}} but, even though the list of references appear in APA style, the citations within the text appears with the number, instead of authoryear. I tried to make your changes in another document and it worked well as I want. But it does not work for my thesis. I think I will print two pdf and then I merge them. Thank you very very much anyhow!!!! – Giorgio Musacchia Mar 12 '19 at 10:27
  • That's one of the main reasons why I advise against using those templates. They get far too unwieldy far too quickly and then it can be extremely hard to figure out where the issue lies. Good luck with your thesis! – moewe Mar 12 '19 at 17:28
  • I will keep in mind your tips from now on!! Thanks really a lot!@moewe – Giorgio Musacchia Mar 12 '19 at 22:10

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