Questions tagged [apa-style]

{apa-style} is about bibliography questions using the style of the American Psychological Association. Use this tag in addition to the tag for the specific package you use to implement the style.

should be used for any questions related to formatting bibliographies and citations using the American Psychological Association style, or styles derived from it. There are two main packages that implement the APA style, depending on the bibliography package used:

natbib solution

biblatex solution

In addition to the APA bibliography style, there are also document classes that implement some version of the APA article format. If you have questions about these packages, you should add the package name specifically as a tag.

Classes that implement the APA article format

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Apacite, delete comma between Author/year, add colon between year and page

I'm working for the first time with Apa in LaTeX (\usepackage{apacite}) and I'm having some trouble. When I use the command \cite[202]{Haegeman:1997} I get: (McCloskey, 1997, 202) which is fine, but my professor wants this output: (McCloskey 1997:…
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apacite+bibtopic: how not to print heading

I need to give multiple bibliography list in tex file in APA style. Here's an example code: \documentclass[letterpaper, 12pt, draft]{report} \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage{apacite} \usepackage{bibtopic} \begin{document} \chapter{FIRST…
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apacite: suppress initials intext when using apa class

I was able to duplicate Alan's code and made the citations work exactly as shown here. But, because I am using [man]apa class, it overrides what I have saved to the bapcite file in my local/texmf/bibtex/bst. As a result, my citations still have the…
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How to suppress source type in apacite (APA) reference list without removing the type-field entry

I am using apacite for APA references in my thesis. It works beautifully with the exception that is displays the source type brackets in the reference list, which I don't want (see below). Leaving the type field blank is not an option because I…
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I want to use the apa bibliography style

I am trying to use the APA style using apacite bibliography style. The bibliography is generated very well but my problem are the citation themselves in the actual document. They just show author names but not the year when I use the \cite command…
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LaTeX reference came out as "&" instead of as "and"

LaTeX reference came out as & instead of and. I tried to to modify the apa.bst file but when I search for & or /& \&
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Footnote in Figure Caption for APA format appearing in different pages

Looks like for majority of the Latex users the below solution worked but unfortunately not for me while trying to achieve the same result using APA format where figures come in succession after…
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almost APA formatting?

I need to make a fairly large report. It requires a cherry-picked APA style, meaning that it uses some of it, and other things are not APA-compliant. I think I won't have problems dealing with the font, margins and spacing. My question is how to…
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Biblatex with apa style skips first entry in bibliography

this is driving me nuts. When compiling my file I can only see the bibliography from the second entry on. The first one is skipped ?!?!?!? Here's my def: and in my output file I see this: One is missing. I referenced all of them in my chapter and…
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what to do to follow third level head in APA? like in the picture

Good morning. can somebody help. I got an issue with the heading in APA here my code \documentclass[a4paper,man,floatsintext]{apa7}…
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How do I make the APA references appear with the numbering and without being overflowed?

My codes are here below: \documentclass[letterpaper,12pt]{article} \usepackage[numbers]{natbib} \begin{document} \bibliographystyle{apa} \bibliography{reference.bib} \end{document} For example, from the file "reference.bib", I have this code for…
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How to get publisher name in apalike

I want to modify the bst file of apalike to print the volume,Issue,publisher_name and published_year of articles on bibliography of my thesis.How can I do it?