How to use APA format for references with 'unsrt' bibliography

Question

I want my references to be cited within text using the square brackets and with the order they appear in the thesis like this [1]. While the reference to be in APA like format like this:

[1] Bouwkamp, J.G., and Bolhom, J.K, 1963, “Dynamic Response of a Two- Story Steel Frame Structure “ , Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America , Vol.56, No. 6, Dec.,1963 , pp. 1289- 1303.

I tried using \bibliographystyle{unsrt,apalike} but seems we can't mix both, so how to produce the above format?

Using the apalike only produced references that are not ordered by the order of their appearance in text. And using unsrt only produced reference format like:

[1] J.G. Bouwkamp and J.K. Bolhom. Dynamic Response of a Two- Story Steel Frame Structure , Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America , Vol.56, No. 6, pp. 1289- 1303, 1963.

SO I want to make citation style like "unsrt" but Bibliography style as "APA", how to do this?

Answer 1

You can't do this easily with natbib but you can do it quite simply with biblatex:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}

@incollection{incollection,
    Author = {AuthorOne, First and AuthorTwo, Second and AuthorThree, Third and AuthorFour, Fourth},
    Booktitle = {Edited Book on Important Stuff},
    Editor = {EditorOne, Ed and EditorTwo, Ed},
    Title = {Article Title},
    Year = {2017}}

@inproceedings{inproceedings,
    Author = {AuthorOne, First and AuthorTwo, Second and AuthorThree, Third and AuthorFour, Fourth},
    Booktitle = {Proceedings of the Conference on Important Stuff},
    Title = {Article Title},
    Year = {2016}}
\end{filecontents*}

\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage[bibstyle=apa,citestyle=numeric,sorting=none]{biblatex}
\DeclareLanguageMapping{american}{american-apa}
\DeclareFieldFormat{labelnumberwidth}{[#1]}

\defbibenvironment{bibliography}
  {\list 
    {\printfield[labelnumberwidth]{labelnumber}} 
  {\setlength{\labelwidth}{\labelnumberwidth}% 
   \setlength{\leftmargin}{0pt}% 
   \setlength{\labelsep}{\biblabelsep}% 
   \setlength{\itemsep}{\bibitemsep}% 
   \setlength{\itemindent}{\labelwidth}% 
   \addtolength{\itemindent}{\labelsep}% 
   \setlength{\parsep}{\bibparsep}}% 
   \renewcommand*{\makelabel}[1]{\hss##1}} 
{\endlist} 
{\item}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}

Citing something \autocite{incollection}

Citing something else \autocite{inproceedings}


Citing again \autocite{incollection}
\printbibliography

\end{document}