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For my thesis I started to use LaTeX as a text editor. I am now in the process of figuring out basically everything. But the coding is not completely unknown to me. However, I get stuck on small point. I want to refer to articles that I used, by showing their surnames follwed by a comma and then the the year of publication.

Currently my code of the main file looks like this:

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\graphicspath{ {C:\Users\beren\Documents\Master SCM\Thesis\Images} }
\usepackage[a4paper, width=150mm, top=1mm, bindingoffset=1mm]{geometry}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyfoot{}
\fancyfoot[LE,RO]{\thepage}
\fancyfoot[LO,CE]{Chapter \thechapter}
\fancyfoot[CO,RE]{My Name}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\usepackage[backend=bibtex, style=authoryear, sorting=nyt]{biblatex}
\renewcommand*{\nameyeardelim}{\addcomma\space}

\addbibresource{references.bib}

My code in references.bib would look like this for example:

@book{NSP,
    author        = {A. Doe, W. Schoenmakers},
    title         = {North Sea Ports in Transition: Changing Tides},
    year          = {1998},
    chapter = {2 Port of Rotterdam: From Landlord to Mainport}
}

As you can see the book includes multiple authors, currently only Doe is showing up in the inline reference, but this should also be Schoenmakers. Could someone explain what I do wrong in the coding?

as well \parencite[33]{NSP}

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I prefer to use APA style referencing. I know that a package exists for this as well, but I am using Bibtex which should also do the job.

One question adding to that for probably in the future, how would this work if I want to refer to the same source (consisting of multiple (3+) authors) again, but then using et al. instead?

moewe
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Fastbanana
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  • See https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/36396/35864 – moewe Feb 23 '20 at 07:54
  • Note that you are not using a BibTeX-based approach to the bibliography, you are using biblatex with BibTeX as backend. This might look like nit-picking, but is actually a big difference. You may want to consider switching to Biber as backend, since BibTeX is designated a 'legacy backend' now and only supports a reduced feature set. It should also be noted that style=authoryear, does not give you APA style, it only gives you something that is superficially similar in the sense that both authoryear and APA are author-year styles. ... – moewe Feb 23 '20 at 07:57
  • ... If you want APA style, you can use biblatex-apa's style=apa, but in that case you must use Biber as your backend (change backend=bibtex, to backend=biber, and have a look at https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/154751/35864). – moewe Feb 23 '20 at 07:58
  • Finally, if you want to cite only one chapter of North Sea Ports in Transition: Changing Tides, then the entry type @incollection would be more appropriate. If you want to cite the entire book, then @collection would be correct. My entries would look more or less like https://gist.github.com/moewew/9701d313152bb3c5cbc36bee13efab79 – moewe Feb 23 '20 at 08:10
  • Thank you for your elaborative answer, @moewe. That sounds like a great idea and I tried to implement it. However my problem is that the bibliography is not showing up at all and that the inline references only refer to the name of the citation in the references.bib file. I changed that file to a 'Biber' file within Texworks.

    I changed the following:

    \usepackage{babel,csquotes}
\usepackage[style=apa, backend=biber]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{References.bib}

    Any clue what I am doing wrong?

     – Fastbanana Feb 23 '20 at 16:43
  • Either you didn't run the whole sequence LaTeX, Biber, LaTeX, LaTeX (where "LaTeX" is your favourite LaTeX flavour: pdfLaTeX, LuaLaTeX, XeLaTeX, ...) or the Biber run fails for some reason. Can you upload the .blg file to a text-sharing website such as https://pastebin.com/ or https://gist.github.com/. (The .blg file is a simple text file you can open with any text editor even though it may be recognised as "performance monitor file" by Windows). – moewe Feb 23 '20 at 16:52
  • Sure, I did it: https://gist.github.com/Bassieboy35/bfbcd56a28f34818b7cd8a0cd3754002 – Fastbanana Feb 23 '20 at 17:20
  • Are you running Biber on the .bib file? It should be run on the main .tex file. You need to run the sequence LaTeX, Biber, LaTeX, LaTeX (e.g. assuming your .tex file is called doc.tex you run pdflatex doc, biber doc, pdflatex doc, pdflatex doc the name of the .bib file doesn't come in). – moewe Feb 23 '20 at 17:46
  • You are right about that, I ran the .bib file through Biber but changed it now as the way you said it. It works now, thank you so much for your help! – Fastbanana Feb 23 '20 at 18:09

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Use and and not , as the separator for author names in the bibfile. It should be author = {A. Doe and W. Schoenmakers}, not author = {A. Doe, W. Schoenmakers},. With what you have BiBTeX understands that A. Doe is the family name and W. Schoenmakers the first name.

Guido
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