I am using apacite, but there are some discrepancies between the result and the style I want for journal submission. I copied the apacite.bst file and made some changes to make full names show up. But I also want to take commas and dots out, and have the second author's name in first name last name order.
Bellows, John, & Miguel, Edward. (2009). War and local collective action in sierra leone. Journal of Public Economics , 93 (11-12), 1144–1157
I want:
Bellows, John & Edward Miguel (2009) War and Local Collective Action in Sierra Leone. Journal of Public Economics 93 (11-12), 1144–1157
How should I change apacite.bst?
In the preamble I have:
\documentclass[12pt, letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage[natbibapa]{apacite}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{threeparttable}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage[margin = .75in]{geometry}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{subfig}
\captionsetup[subfloat]{position = top, font = large}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage{cleveref}
\usepackage{lscape}
For bibliography I have
\bibliographystyle{apacite-mycopy}
\bibliography{mybibfile}
mybibfile:
@article{bellows2009war,
Author = {Bellows, John and Miguel, Edward},
Date-Added = {2019-03-06 15:18:47 -0800},
Date-Modified = {2019-03-06 15:19:30 -0800},
Journal = {Journal of Public Economics},
Number = {11-12},
Pages = {1144--1157},
Publisher = {Elsevier},
Title = {War and local collective action in Sierra Leone},
Volume = {93},
Year = {2009}}
apaciteis the simplest way to go here, since the proper APA style it implements is quite specific and in some ways idiosyncratic. Isbiblatexan option? If so, it would probably be a faster way to get what you want. – Alan Munn Apr 04 '19 at 03:31