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[zcoverstone]

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Hello,

I've been grappling with writing an online forum reference and have not been able to get the bibliography to print properly, specifically the howpublished entry on a misc entry. Here is a MWE:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\RequirePackage[american]{babel}
\RequirePackage[style=apa]{biblatex}

\addbibresource{untitled-1.bib}

\begin{document}
    Document text...

    \nocite{*}

    \printbibliography
\end{document}

Here is the bibliography file, untitled-1.bib

@misc{test,
    year={2021},
    author={Author Author},
    title={This is a title},
    note={Tweet},
    url={https://twitter.com},
    howpublished={Social Media}
}

Here is the output

Here is a reference to the relevant style guide page for APA 7th for the style I am trying to recreate: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples/online-forum-references. Any help on this issue would be great. Thanks!

[dan-weiss]

@zachtheriah This is actually handled by the biblatex-apa package but I can point you in the right direction.

The biblatex-apa package implements the examples in the APA style guide. One of their tweet examples looks like this:

% (APA 10.15 Example 103)
% ENTRYTYPE is not a localisation string for such, unfortunately, universal neologisms
@ONLINE{10.15:103a,
  ENTRYSUBTYPE            = {Tweet},
  GROUPAUTHOR             = {{APA Education}},
  GROUPAUTHOR+an:username = {1="@APAEducation"},
  TITLE                   = {College Students are Forming Mental-Health
                             Clubs--and They're Making a Difference @washingtonpost},
  TITLEADDON              = {Thumbnail with link attached},
  EPRINT                  = {Twitter},
  DATE                    = {2018-06-29},
  URL                     = {https://twitter.com/apaeducation/status/1012810490530140161}
}

And produces a references like this:

You can see all of the APA style guide examples in their documentation. You can then cross-reference that to the included biblatex-apa-test-references.bib file.

Hope this helps :).

[zcoverstone]

Thank you!