I am writing a MSc thesis in LaTeX and I would like to use a formatting style that comes close to that of published academic journal articles. This is my first big LaTeX project and I have only started using it fairly recently.
I have already searched for ways to fix my problem online, but I could not find a solution to accomplish my goal of setting up colorlinks (internal document cross-references) for authors and years using the apa-style and the biblatex package.
Here is my preamble:
%% begin preamble%%
% set the document class
\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
%package to create a list of acronyms which appears in the table of contents
\usepackage[acronym, toc, nopostdot, nogroupskip]{glossaries}
% acronym list entries:
\newacronym{mbb}{MBB}{moving block bootstrap}
\newacronym{rss}{RSS}{residual sum of squares}
\newacronym{mae}{MAE}{mean absolute error}
\newacronym{rmse}{RMSE}{root mean squared error}
\newacronym{ann}{ANN}{Artificial Neural Network}
\newacronym{dl}{DL}{Deep Learning}
\newacronym{mse}{MSE}{mean squared error}
\newacronym{lstmnn}{LSTM NN}{Long Short Term Memory neural network}
\newacronym{rnn}{RNN}{Recurrent Neural Network}
\newacronym{arima}{ARIMA}{Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average}
% end acronym list entries
\makenoidxglossaries
% aligns the description entries in the list of acronyms
\glsfindwidesttoplevelname
\setglossarystyle{alttree}
% setting the space between acronym and description
\renewcommand\glstreepredesc{\qquad}
% prepare the document for images
\usepackage{graphicx}
% sets the directory where images are stored
\graphicspath{ {images/} }
% set spacing package to change the spacing for the table of contents
\usepackage{setspace}
% package to create captions and subcaptions for figures and tables
\usepackage[labelfont=bf]{caption}
\usepackage{subcaption}
% package to include notes underneath figures/tables
\usepackage{floatrow}
% package to type piecewise functions
\usepackage{amsmath}
% color package for formatting URLs
\usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor}
% packages for cross references within the Latex document
\usepackage{varioref}
% package to create hyperlinks within the Latex document (including the bibliography if url is specified)
\usepackage[backref=true]{hyperref}
% the cleverref package enhances LATEX’s cross-referencing features,allowing the format of cross-references to be determined automatically ac-cording to the “type” of cross-reference (equation, section, etc.) and thecontext in which the cross-reference is used
\usepackage[capitalise, noabbrev]{cleveref}
% formatting the URLs
\hypersetup{colorlinks=true, linkcolor=BrickRed, urlcolor=RoyalBlue, citecolor=BlueViolet}
\urlstyle{same}
% using the geometry package to set margins of the document
\usepackage[a4paper,width=150mm,top=25mm,bottom=25mm]{geometry}
% creating the option to display bookmarks in the compiled pdf document
\usepackage{bookmark}
% using packages to add in customized headers and footers
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
% separation lines for header and footer
% specifying inputs for headers and footers (commented out for now)
\fancyhead[RO,LE]{Chapter \thechapter}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
% changing the thickness of the lines in the headers and footers:
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0 pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0 pt}
% creating colorlinks to the names of the authors AND the year:
% Citation Hyperlinks (not just years), thanks to Audrey.
\makeatletter
\renewbibmacro*{cite}{% Based on cite bib macro from authoryear-comp.cbx
\iffieldundef{shorthand}
{\ifthenelse{\ifnameundef{labelname}\OR\iffieldundef{labelyear}}
{\printtext[bibhyperref]{% Include labelname in hyperlink
\DeclareFieldAlias{bibhyperref}{default}% Prevent nested hyperlinks
\usebibmacro{cite:label}%
\setunit{\addspace}%
\usebibmacro{cite:labelyear+extrayear}}%
\usebibmacro{cite:reinit}}
{\iffieldequals{namehash}{\cbx@lasthash}
{\ifthenelse{\iffieldequals{labelyear}{\cbx@lastyear}\AND
\(\value{multicitecount}=0\OR\iffieldundef{postnote}\)}
{\setunit{\addcomma}%
\usebibmacro{cite:extrayear}}
{\setunit{\compcitedelim}%
\usebibmacro{cite:labelyear+extrayear}%
\savefield{labelyear}{\cbx@lastyear}}}
{\printtext[bibhyperref]{% Include labelname in hyperlink
\DeclareFieldAlias{bibhyperref}{default}% Prevent nested hyperlinks
\printnames{labelname}%
\setunit{\nameyeardelim}%
\usebibmacro{cite:labelyear+extrayear}}%
\savefield{namehash}{\cbx@lasthash}%
\savefield{labelyear}{\cbx@lastyear}}}}
{\usebibmacro{cite:shorthand}%
\usebibmacro{cite:reinit}}%
\setunit{\multicitedelim}}
\renewbibmacro*{textcite}{% Based on textcite bib macro from authoryear-comp.cbx
\iffieldequals{namehash}{\cbx@lasthash}
{\iffieldundef{shorthand}
{\ifthenelse{\iffieldequals{labelyear}{\cbx@lastyear}\AND
\(\value{multicitecount}=0\OR\iffieldundef{postnote}\)}
{\setunit{\addcomma}%
\usebibmacro{cite:extrayear}}
{\setunit{\compcitedelim}%
\usebibmacro{cite:labelyear+extrayear}%
\savefield{labelyear}{\cbx@lastyear}}}
{\setunit{\compcitedelim}%
\usebibmacro{cite:shorthand}%
\global\undef\cbx@lastyear}}
{\ifnameundef{labelname}
{\printtext[bibhyperref]{% Include labelname in hyperlink
\DeclareFieldAlias{bibhyperref}{default}% Prevent nested hyperlinks
\iffieldundef{shorthand}
{\usebibmacro{cite:label}%
\setunit{%
\global\booltrue{cbx:parens}%
\addspace\bibopenparen}%
\ifnumequal{\value{citecount}}{1}
{\usebibmacro{prenote}}
{}%
\usebibmacro{cite:labelyear+extrayear}}
{\usebibmacro{cite:shorthand}}%
\ifthenelse{\iffieldundef{postnote}\AND
\(\value{multicitetotal}=0\AND\value{citetotal}=1\)}
{\bibcloseparen% Include closing parenthesis in hyperlink
\global\boolfalse{cbx:parens}}
{}}}
{\printtext[bibhyperref]{% Include labelname in hyperlink
\DeclareFieldAlias{bibhyperref}{default}% Prevent nested hyperlinks
\printnames{labelname}%
\setunit{%
\global\booltrue{cbx:parens}%
\addspace\bibopenparen}%
\ifnumequal{\value{citecount}}{1}
{\usebibmacro{prenote}}
{}%
\iffieldundef{shorthand}
{\iffieldundef{labelyear}
{\usebibmacro{cite:label}}
{\usebibmacro{cite:labelyear+extrayear}}%
\savefield{labelyear}{\cbx@lastyear}}
{\usebibmacro{cite:shorthand}%
\global\undef\cbx@lastyear}%
\ifthenelse{\iffieldundef{postnote}\AND
\(\value{multicitetotal}=0\AND\value{citetotal}=1\)}
{\bibcloseparen% Include closing parenthesis in hyperlink
\global\boolfalse{cbx:parens}}
{}}%
\savefield{namehash}{\cbx@lasthash}}}%
\setunit{%
\ifbool{cbx:parens}
{\bibcloseparen\global\boolfalse{cbx:parens}}
{}%
\multicitedelim}}
\makeatother
% using the biblatex package to create references
\usepackage[style=authoryear-comp ,sorting=nyt, maxcitenames=2, natbib=true,backend=biber]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{references.bib}
% This allows for an additional line-breaking pass with the amount of "tolerable" white space per line increased by 1em.
\emergencystretch=1em
%% end preamble%%
my compiled document looks like this:
Thank you very much in advance! The renewbibmacro workaround that I found on this platform has not worked for me unfortunately.
renewbibmacroafter the call tobiblatex. – Cicada Feb 20 '20 at 06:57style=authoryear-comp,does not give you APA style. It just gives you author-year citations/bibliography. If you want real APA style you needstyle=apa,frombiblatex-apa. – moewe Feb 20 '20 at 07:04