I am trying to move on to BibLaTeX. With BibTeX the Style apalike provides everything I need, as illustrated by the following MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\hypersetup{%
colorlinks=true,
citecolor=blue}
\begin{document}
Some text as written by \cite{Attanasio2010} and \citep{Galindo2002}
\bibliographystyle{apalike}
\bibliography{bib}
\end{document}
where the content of the bib is produced by Mendeley and looks like:
@article{Attanasio2010,
abstract = {This paper provides a critical survey of the large literature on the life cycle model of consumption, both from an empirical and a theoretical point of view. It discusses several approaches that have been taken in the literature to bring the model to the data, their empirical successes and failures. Finally, the paper reviews a number of changes to the standard life cycle model that could help solve the remaining empirical puzzles.},
author = {Kaminsky, Graciela Laura and Schmukler, Sergio L.},
journal = {NBER Working Paper},
month = feb,
shorttitle = {Consumption and saving},
title = {{Consumption and saving: models of intertemporal allocation and their implications for public policy}},
url = {http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract\_id=1558816 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15756},
volume = {756},
number = {12},
year = {2010}
}
@article{Galindo2002,
author = {Galindo, Arturo and Schiantarelli, Fabio and Weiss, Andrew},
journal = {American Economic Review},
month = apr,
shorttitle = {Does Financial Liberalization Improve the Allocati},
title = {{Does Financial Liberalization Improve the Allocation of Investment?: Micro Evidence from Developing Countries}},
url = {http://ideas.repec.org/p/idb/wpaper/4295.html},
volume = {47},
number = {2},
year = {2002}
}
What I need is actually quite simple and is demonstrated by my example
- Citations as shown in the example (cite: year in parentheses or citep: Author-Year separated by coma)
- Use of et al. when more than 2 authors.
- Bibliography: Only initials for first/middle name.
- Last name, First name
- Never use et al.
- Only show year, even when month is specified
- Never show URL (retrieved from...)
- Issue in parentheses, next to volume
- If using hyperlink, creating link for the full citation and not just the year.
The result should look like:
I have probably forgotten something, but that's the obvious stuff. I have played all day with different styles of BibLaTeX, including authoryear and apa, but I was unable to reproduce the simple apalike style. In fact, I have been unable to get apa for BibLaTeX to work as I get errors such as:
Package biblatex Warning: Bibliography string 'retrieved' undefined(biblatex) at entry 'Attanasio2010'
Edit 1: The biblatex-apa MWE that I cannot get to work is:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\hypersetup{%
colorlinks=true,
citecolor=blue}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage[variant=american]{english}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\PassOptionsToPackage{
natbib=true,
style=apa,
hyperref=true,
backend=biber,
maxbibnames=99,
firstinits=true,
maxcitenames=2,
parentracker=true
} {biblatex}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\DeclareNameAlias{default}{last-first}
\DeclareLanguageMapping{american}{american-apa}
\addbibresource{bib.bib}
\begin{document}
Some text as written by \cite{Attanasio2010} and \citep{Galindo2002}
\printbibliography
\end{document}
which produces the errors:
Undefined control sequence: <argument> \mkbibdateapalongextra :
Package biblatex Warning: Bibliography string 'retrieved' undefined(biblatex) at entry 'Galindo2002'
Package biblatex Warning: Bibliography string 'from' undefined(biblatex) at entry 'Galindo2002'
and looks like this:
Edit 2: The issue lies with polyglossia. When using \usepackage[american]{babel} instead there are no errors.
Edit 3: Further testing shows that, when using polyglossia, one has to use \DeclareLanguageMapping{english}{american-apa}. This takes care of the Bibliography string 'retrieved' undefined errors, but the dates are still wrong and the Undefined control sequence: \mkbibdateapalongextra is still there.
biblatexsolution, could you post thebiblatex-apaversion of your document that didn't work? Most of what you want can probably be done by tweaking abiblatex-apaversion. – Alan Munn Mar 14 '12 at 15:44biblatexandbiblatex-apaare you using? Both are under active development… – Seamus Mar 15 '12 at 12:41biblatexandbiblatex-apa. – Alan Munn Mar 15 '12 at 14:10\usepackage[american]{babel}instead there are no errors. Is biblatex-apa not compatible with polyglossia? – Jörg Mar 15 '12 at 16:04