Bibtex day and Month Problem

Question

I have a problem with Bibtex and its day and month entries.

Judging from my Google search a lot of people want to suppress these entries - I however want to actually see them in my output.

This is what I use:

@ARTICLE{Jurgensen,
  author = {J{\"u}rgensen, Nadine},
  title = {{Die Geb{\"u}hren geh{\"o}ren abgeschafft}},
  journal = {Neue Z{\"u}rcher Zeitung},
  year = {2012},
  month = {Jul},
  day = {19},
  pages = {11},
}

And this my output:

What I want to see in the end is something along these lines:

For completeness, here my (shortened) MWE:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{natbib,setspace,amsmath,graphicx,float}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{changepage}
\usepackage{times} 
\onehalfspacing

\begin{document}
\bibliography{sqwg2}
\bibliographystyle{apalike}
\end{document}

Can anyone help me please find the problem? Thanks!

Mico · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-23T22:24:06.707

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(I rewrote the answer more or less completely after the OP provided an important piece of information, viz., that the bibliographic items of his/her document must be formatted according to APA guidelines.)

If your bibliography has to be formatted according to current APA guidelines, you should be using the apacite bibliography style, along with the apacite citation management package. FWIW, the apalike bibliography style is ca 30 years old and, as such, does not implement current APA formatting guidelines...

The good news is that the apacite style -- unlike the apalike style -- knows what to do with fields named day and month and recognizes an entry type called @newspaper. All you really need to do, mainly, is to change the entry type from @article to @newspaper. If you want to use natbib-like citation commands, you should load the apacite package with the option natbibapa.

Incidentally, if you change the argument of the month field from {July} to jul (note: no curly braces), you'll get the language-appropriate form of the month and day fields ("July 19", "19. Juli", "19 juillet", etc) automatically if the babel package is loaded with a suitable language option. Thus, do make a habit of using only jan, feb, mar, etc as the arguments of the month field.

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{sqwg2.bib}
@newspaper{Jurgensen,
  author  = {J{\"u}rgensen, Nadine},
  title   = {{Die Geb{\"u}hren geh{\"o}ren abgeschafft}},
  journal = {Neue Z{\"u}rcher Zeitung},
  year    = {2012},
  month   = jul,
  day     = {19},
  pages   = {11},
}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{times} 
\usepackage[natbibapa]{apacite}
\bibliographystyle{apacite}

\begin{document}
\citep{Jurgensen}
\bibliography{sqwg2}
\end{document}

edited Dec 23 '16 at 22:24

answered Dec 23 '16 at 00:47

Mico

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Thank you for your answer @Mico - I use apalike because I thought this will ensure that all citazions are in apa-style and, on top of that, citations are not recognized if I remove it. I chose @article because of this. I like your solution, but I would prefer to really have the date as one, i.e. (2012, July 19) and right behind the author's name. Is that possible? – Malganas Dec 23 '16 at 09:10
@Daniel - Did you try changing the year field to {2012, July 19} and the note field to p.~19? (Be sure to re-run BibTeX and LaTeX after changing a bib entry.) – Mico Dec 23 '16 at 13:41
If I do this, then everything looks as I want in the bibliography, but the \citep commands shows "(Jürgensen, y 19)" and not "(Jürgensen, 2012)". – Malganas Dec 23 '16 at 16:31
Another insecurity regarding the first part of your answer: Is the \RequirePackage{filecontents} and \begin{filecontents}{sqwg2.bib} to be put in the .bib file or my actual latex? If I try to copy it into my latex file, it causes errors. – Malganas Dec 23 '16 at 16:36
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@Daniel - Thanks for indicating that your bibliography has to conform to (current?) APA formatting guidelines. I've rewritten my answer significantly as a result. BTW, the filecontents package is needed to make my answer code self-contained. You should be editing your real bib file separately, i.e., not as a "prefix" to the main tex file. – Mico Dec 23 '16 at 21:16
@Daniel - Which TeX distribution do you use? – Mico Dec 24 '16 at 02:45

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