Reference date (Year, Month Day)

Question

I've been trying to follow the APA style for article date (Year, Month Day), but after reading the documentation of biblatex, the closest I've come is (Month, Day Year). Does anyone know a solution to this?

From this:

To this:

Here's my MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
% ----- Sources -----
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage[backend=biber, style=apa, sorting=nyt, datelabel=comp, dateabbrev= false]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{References.bib}
\begin{document}
\cite{Grebe2017}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

And my References.bib:

\@online{Grebe2017,
title = {Beyond the Hype: The Real Champions of Building the Digital Future},
date = {2017-07-10},
author = {Michael Grebe and Michael Rüßmann and Michael Leyh},
institution = {BCG},
url = {https://www.bcg.com/publications/2017/technology-digital-beyond-hype}}

Here you have different solutions: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/129170/formatting-dates-day-month-year-with-biblatex — Fran, May 14 '21 at 09:34

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 14 '21 at 12:11

With specialised custom styles like biblatex-apa it is usually best not to use that many additional biblatex options that influence the output.

In this case the culprit is datelabel=comp, as it switches from the APA-style date to biblatex's standard comp format. Remove the option. Likewise you should remove dateabbrev=false.

The option sorting=nyt, should also be removed, since biblatex-apa comes with its own sorting scheme that sorts things according to APA specifications.

So you should change the \usepackage[backend=biber, style=apa, sorting=nyt, datelabel=comp, dateabbrev= false]{biblatex} to

\usepackage[backend=biber, style=apa]{biblatex}

Then

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[backend=biber, style=apa]{biblatex}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@online{Grebe2017,
  title       = {Beyond the Hype: The Real Champions of Building the Digital Future},
  date        = {2017-07-10},
  author      = {Michael Grebe and Michael Rüßmann and Michael Leyh},
  institution = {BCG},
  url         = {https://www.bcg.com/publications/2017/technology-digital-beyond-hype},
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{document}
\cite{Grebe2017}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

gives

as desired.

Reference date (Year, Month Day)

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