young@ut-emx.UUCP (Young) (08/06/90)
Thanks for many responses to my request of LaTeX/BibTeX macros
supporting the American Psychological Association.
Among a few macros, newapa.sty and newapa.bst looked really fine.
However, I am a little bit greedy and I hope that the following would
be supported and/or corrected.
1. Either AUTHOR or EDITOR (among others) is a required field
in the @BOOK entity type, (according to the LaTeX manual
and Patashnik's note of BibTeXing). But when I ran a BibTeX
(C Version 0.99c in Unix and in PC), a @BOOK entity
without AUTHOR (but with EDITOR) is messaged to have
an error:
`author' is a missing ... ...
Fortunately, the BibTeX created the correct .bbl file
having "editor" in the end of editors' names.
2. When two or more works of an author are cited, the
citation should look like:
... ... (von Wright, 1965, 1969) ...
(I think this is a combination of \cite and \citeyear.)
In addition, if they are cited with works of other authors,
the citation should look like:
... ... (von Wright, 1965, 1966; Hintikka, 1957) ...
Note: I created an ugly macro to support this in an ugly manner.
I am not satisfied with my macro.
3. \citeyear[123]{Prior62} is not allowed. (\cite[123]{Prior62}
is allowed).
4. When page numbers are given together with a citation, it
should look like:
... ... (McCarthy & Hayes, 1969: 134)
Note: I changed newapa.sty to support this.
5. In the text, spacing around cirations looks a little bit
strange. For example:
... contrary-to-duty imperatives (Chisholm, 1963) ...
^^ ^
(1) (2)
The space (1) is too big. (The space (2) looks fine).
In addition, in the result of \cite[p.~123]{Wright56},
i.e. (von Wright, 1956: p. 123), the space just before
the closing parenthesis is too small compared to
the result of cirations without the optional [...]
argument.
Note: I changed newapa.sty to fix this. I just \kern'ed
the left parenthesis by -.75ex and the right parenthesis
by .15ex when the optional argument [...] is given.
6. According the newapa.sty, parentheses are raised by .2ex.
I think it is a pretty good idea. I hope parentheses,
e.g. von Wright, G. H. (1969), in .bbl files are
also raised by .2ex.
7. There are quite a few books and articles translated
from other languages. The APA style requires
translator(s), original titles, and original year in
the reference or bibliography, even though
they are not used when cited.
Am I too greedy? The APA style is a sort of serious business
for people in social science and business/management fields.
I am trying to fix them, but I am no TeXhacker, especially
no BibTeXhacker. I hope somebody out there can help me.
Young (young@emx.utexas.edu)