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I'm working for the first time with Apa in LaTeX (\usepackage{apacite}) and I'm having some trouble. When I use the command \cite[202]{Haegeman:1997} I get: (McCloskey, 1997, 202) which is fine, but my professor wants this output: (McCloskey 1997: 202). Do you have any idea, how I can delete the common between Author/year AND add colon between year and page?

Thank you in advance.

Carolina.

Carolina Cárdenas
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I had the same problem and, after a long research, I solved like this:

In the preamble:

\usepackage {apacite}
\AtBeginDocument{%
\renewcommand{\BBAY}{, }%% punctuation between authors and year
\renewcommand{\BBN}{: }%% punctuation between year and page number
\renewcommand{\BBYY}{, }%% punctuation between multiple years
}

You can change the colon between year and page number.

In LaTex:

\cite[138]{leeman1997}

The result: (Lehmann, 1997: 138)

Daniel RP
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