[OS X TeX] LaTeX and APA

[Alan T Litchfield]

I have just been through this exercise. There are some differences  
between 5th and 6th which are handled with biblatex, but there is a  
fair amount of work required to enable them. Once done then it is  
pretty automatic, until you find something else that is non-conforming  
and you have to do more set up work.

Erik Meijer has built a new version of apacite that is 6th ready and  
fully automatic. My advice would be to use that.

Regards
Alan

On 19/03/2011, at 4:35 AM, Alan Munn wrote:

> If you are mainly concerned about the formatting of citations/ 
> bibliography, then the biblatex-apa style for biblatex is the most  
> up-to-date that I am aware of. It implements the 6th ed. APA guide.
>
> biblatex-mla is usable with the apa documentclass  if you load it  
> with the [noapacite] option.
>
> Switching from apacite to biblatex is pretty straightforward; you  
> don't need to change you bib file, but you may need to adjust the  
> actual citation commands to match the biblatex-apa cite commands.
>
> so a basic document would be
>
> \documentclass[noapacite]{apa}
> \usepackage[american]{babel}
> \usepackage{csquotes}
> \usepackage[style=apa]{biblatex}
> \DeclareLanguageMapping{american}{american-apa}
> \bibliography{your-bib-file}
> \begin{document}
>
> ...
>
> \printbibliography
>
> \end{document}
>
> There's been a very recent update to biblatex-apa (last few days) so  
> make sure your distribution is up-to-date.
>
> Alan
>
>
> On Mar 18, 2011, at 9:16 AM, LuKreme wrote:
>
>> I'm wondering what the current status of APA support in TeX is?  
>> I've seen mention of an apa class for 5th edition, and a sort of  
>> update for 6th edition, though this states that the apa class is  
>> 'more capable'.
>>
>> <http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/apa.html>
>> <http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/apa6e.html>
>>
>> I have to submit some papers and they have to be checked against  
>> APA6, and the TA who is doing the checking is… well, let's be kind  
>> and say she is detail oriented.
>>
>> apacite and mslsapa also seem to reference the 5th edition.
>>
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