Using APA6 Package Returns Cannont Find apa6.sty Error

Question

The Problem

When attempting to use the APA6 package, I received this error:

! LaTeX Error: File `apa6.sty' not found.

And a little later, I see the following warnings:

Class apa6 Warning: Short title not defined.
Class apa6 Warning: Affiliation not defined.
Class apa6 Warning: Abstract not defined.

Fairly self-explanatory, or so I thought...

What I've Tried

I've reviewd the following, including the comments, and none of the provided ideas/solutions have worked:

Installing packages (that don't include a .sty file) with BSD

How do I install a .dtx file?

tracklang.sty missing in miktex

I have already tried using the package manager to uninstall and reinstall the apa6 package. Additionally, I have also attempted installing the package manually. But upon processing the files, no .sty file is produced, using either latex or pdflatex.

Additional Info and MCVE

I am using MiKTeX 2.9, on a 64-bit Windows 7 Professional machine, and the only other interesting thing that I've noted was that the value of TEXMFMAIN does not correspond to a path that actually exists on my system:

ß kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFMAIN
C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.9

I am thinking that could be the issue, but I have yet to locate any information on how to affect that variable's value.

MCVE:

\documentclass[12pt]{apa6}
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage{apa6}

\setcounter{secnumdepth}{-1}

\title{My Title}
\date{}
\author{My name}


\begin{document}
    \maketitle

    \begin{center}\section{Section 1}\end{center}

    \subsection{subsection}
        \paragraph{para title} paragraph 1\textsuperscript{\cite{ref1}}.

    \begin{center}\section{Section 2}\end{center}

    \subsection{subsection}
        \paragraph{para title} paragraph 2\textsuperscript{\cite{ref2}}.

    \flushleft
    \begin{thebibliography}{10}
        \bibitem{ref1}

        \bibitem{ref2}

        \bibitem{ref3}
    \end{thebibliography}
\end{document}

% % % % % % Sources to add to References
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Is the apa6 package supposed to have a sty file and, if so, how can I go about getting a hold of a copy of it?

Answer 1

The apa6 bundle contains no apa6.sty file. Here's the output of tlmgr info apa6 --list (without the description part):

run files:
  texmf-dist/tex/latex/apa6/apa6.cls
  texmf-dist/tex/latex/apa6/config/APAamerican.txt
  texmf-dist/tex/latex/apa6/config/APAbritish.txt
  texmf-dist/tex/latex/apa6/config/APAczech.txt
  texmf-dist/tex/latex/apa6/config/APAdutch.txt
  texmf-dist/tex/latex/apa6/config/APAendfloat.cfg
  texmf-dist/tex/latex/apa6/config/APAenglish.txt
  texmf-dist/tex/latex/apa6/config/APAgerman.txt
  texmf-dist/tex/latex/apa6/config/APAgreek.txt
  texmf-dist/tex/latex/apa6/config/APAngerman.txt
source files:
  texmf-dist/source/latex/apa6/apa6.dtx
  texmf-dist/source/latex/apa6/apa6.ins
doc files:
  texmf-dist/doc/latex/apa6/README details="Readme"
  texmf-dist/doc/latex/apa6/apa6.pdf details="Package documentation"
  texmf-dist/doc/latex/apa6/pseudoTeX/TeX2WordForapa6.bas
  texmf-dist/doc/latex/apa6/pseudoTeX/apa6.ptex
  texmf-dist/doc/latex/apa6/samples/Figure1.pdf
  texmf-dist/doc/latex/apa6/samples/bibliography.bib
  texmf-dist/doc/latex/apa6/samples/longsample.tex
  texmf-dist/doc/latex/apa6/samples/shortsample.tex

It's no different for MiKTeX, that uses the same. If we look at the apa6.ins file that's used to build the runtime files, we see

\generate{
  \file{\jobname.cls}{\from{\jobname.dtx}{class}}
}
\usedir{tex/latex/apa6/config}
\generate{
  \file{./config/APAamerican.txt}{\from{\jobname.dtx}{american}}
  \file{./config/APAbritish.txt}{\from{\jobname.dtx}{british}}
  \file{./config/APAdutch.txt}{\from{\jobname.dtx}{dutch}}
  \file{./config/APAenglish.txt}{\from{\jobname.dtx}{english}}
  \file{./config/APAgerman.txt}{\from{\jobname.dtx}{german}}
  \file{./config/APAngerman.txt}{\from{\jobname.dtx}{ngerman}}
  \file{./config/APAgreek.txt}{\from{\jobname.dtx}{greek}}
  \file{./config/APAczech.txt}{\from{\jobname.dtx}{czech}}
  \file{./config/APAendfloat.cfg}{\from{\jobname.dtx}{APAendfloat}}
}
\usedir{tex/latex/apa6/samples}
\generate{
  \file{./samples/bibliography.bib}{\from{\jobname.dtx}{bibliography}}
  \file{./samples/shortsample.tex}{\from{\jobname.dtx}{shortsample}}
  \file{./samples/longsample.tex}{\from{\jobname.dtx}{longsample}}
}
\usedir{tex/latex/apa6/pseudoTeX}
\generate{
  \file{./pseudoTeX/apa6.ptex}{\from{\jobname.dtx}{ptex}}
  \file{./pseudoTeX/TeX2WordForapa6.bas}{\from{\jobname.dtx}{bas}}
}

and again there is no trace of apa6.sty.

Remove \usepackage{apa6}, because it's wrong.

---

In order to get rid of the warnings, define the required parts as in the following example. Note that you are not supposed to add \begin{center} and \end{center} around section titles, that are centered by default.

Also \flushleft before \begin{thebibliography} is wrong. Maybe \raggedright after it, if you want ragged right typesetting.

\documentclass[12pt]{apa6}
\usepackage[american]{babel}

\title{My Title}
\shorttitle{My Title}
\date{}
\author{My name}
\affiliation{My university}

\begin{document}

\abstract{An abstract}

\maketitle

\section{Section 1}

\subsection{subsection}

\paragraph{para title} paragraph 1\textsuperscript{\cite{ref1}}.

\section{Section 2}

\subsection{subsection}

\paragraph{para title} paragraph 2\textsuperscript{\cite{ref2}}.

\begin{thebibliography}{1}

\bibitem{ref1} Some item

\bibitem{ref2} Some item

\bibitem{ref3} Some item

\bibitem{ref4} Some item

\end{thebibliography}

\end{document}