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- From: munson@acacia.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Ethan V. Munson)
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- Subject: Help with apalike.sty and apalike.bst (LaTeX/BibTeX)
- Date: 17 Aug 1992 15:52:23 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- I got the following request for help from a grad student in Psychology
- here at Berkeley. She sent me a patch for apalike.bst that fixes the
- "&" problem. However, the other two problems are beyond the limited
- skills of either one of us. Can anyone help us find a solution? TeX is
- not widely used in psychology circles. It's use might be more
- widespread if it handled APA styles correctly.
-
- Please reply by e-mail even if you post a response to the net.
-
- Ethan Munson
- munson@cs.berkeley.edu
-
- ;
- ; I'm using LaTeX/BibTeX for my dissertation and i've
- ; noticed a few bugs. I thought i'd pass them on to
- ; you in the remote chance that you've fixed them.
- ;
- ; I think the main problem is because i'm using APA format
- ; (apalike.sty). The first bug is that citations and references with
- ; two authors should be separated by "&", rather than "and" (e.g. smith
- ; & jones, 1991). I fixed this in the file apalike.bst (on my machine).
- ; The second bug is that "in press" citations are truncated to 4
- ; characters in the text but not in the bibliography (e.g smith & jones,
- ; ress). I can fix this by hand in the .bbl file. The last bug is that
- ; APA format requires that three or more authors be cited as "et al.",
- ; EXCEPT for the first citation. So, for example, the first citation is
- ; (smith, jones, \& brown, 1991), the subsequent ones are (smith et al.,
- ; 1991). The code in apalike.bst causes them to all be listed as "et
- ; al." Again, I can fix this by hand, but it is a real PAIN.
- ;
- ; So, are these bugs you have encountered? Have they been
- ; fixed? Do you even care?
- ;
-