apacite-like commands in biblatex?

Question

My document used to use bibtex with the package apacite, where I used the commands \cite and \citeA to create citations of the form (Author, Year) and Author (Year) respectively.

For various reasons I had to switch from bibtex to biblatex. I load it with \usepackage[style=apa,backend=biber]{biblatex}.

I am trying to figure out how to do the same in biblatex:

When I use \parencite I get a similar effect to apacite's \cite, but the PDF link (hyperref) is only created for the year. I would like both the author and the year to have a hyperref link to the bibliography. How do I do that?
How do I do something like \citeA? I can "fake it" by using two commands like \citeauthor{key} (\citeyear{key}) but it's cleaner (and has other advantages) to use only one cite command (and again, \citeauthor doesn't seem to generate a hyperref link).

\citeA is probably \textcite. For the links thing see hyperlink name with biblatex authoryear (biblatex 1.4b). — moewe, Mar 05 '16 at 15:49
One problem is that biblatex-apa is a compressed style, try to cite \cite{knuth:ct:a,knuth:ct:c} from biblatex-examples.bib. Which of the two works would you like the link from "Knuth" to go to? — moewe, Mar 05 '16 at 15:53
\textcite was exactly the thing, I don't know how I missed it in the docs... Regarding the compressed style, good point, but the other answer you linked to solved my problem. Thank you very much :) If you write your first comment as an answer, I'll accept it. — Yoni Rozenshein, Mar 05 '16 at 19:37

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 06 '16 at 07:31

The equivalent of apacite's \citeA in biblatex is \textcite.

(And you are absolutely right that one should avoid faking such a command by putting together several \cite...s into one macro, in biblatex it is often not much harder to define a real cite command. And in this case it happens that the command is already there.)

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 06 '16 at 08:08

I use APA and have found following to work for me:

\documentclass{article}

%% Bibliography APA 6th edition - norwegian
\usepackage[style=apa,backend=biber,language=norsk,natbib=true]{biblatex}
    \DeclareLanguageMapping{norsk}{norsk-apa}
    \addbibresource{Bibliotek.bib}
%-----------------------------
\begin{document}

\section{biblatex apa}
\textcite{Adler1989}, \parencite{Adler1989}.

%-----------------------------
\printbibliography

\end{document}

...with the following Bibliotek.bib

@Book{Adler1989,
  Title                    = {{T}he {S}tudy of {O}rchestration. 2ed},
  Author                   = {Adler, Samuel},
  Publisher                = {New York: WW Norton and Company},
  Year                     = {1989}
}

Output

Note that your .bib file can be biblatex-ified further. The edition should not go to the title, but to edition: title = {{T}he {S}tudy of {O}rchestration}, edition = {2},. Also the location of the publisher goes to the location field and the "and" in the name should be protected: location = {New York}, publisher = {WW Norton {and} Company},. — moewe, Mar 06 '16 at 08:15

apacite-like commands in biblatex?

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