Closed pat-githubber closed 2 years ago
The long author names goes into the author
field, the abbreviated form into shortauthor
.
\documentclass[american]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[backend=biber, style=apa]{biblatex}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@book{8.21a,
author = {{The American Psychological Association}},
shortauthor = {APA},
title = {Title1},
date = {2017},
}
@book{8.21b,
author = {{The American Psychological Association}},
shortauthor = {APA},
title = {Title2},
date = {2006},
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{document}
Lorem \autocite{8.21a}
ipsum \autocite{8.21b}
dolor \autocite{8.21a}
\printbibliography
\end{document}
You can find many examples from the APA manual in https://github.com/plk/biblatex-apa/blob/master/bibtex/bib/biblatex-apa-test-references.bib and the examples from the biblatex-apa
docs in https://github.com/plk/biblatex-apa/blob/master/bibtex/bib/biblatex-apa-test-citations.bib (note that groupauthor
is an obsolete field that has been superseded by author
: https://github.com/plk/biblatex-apa/pull/157).
I haven't checked the sub-directory master/bibtex/bib/
here at GitHub 🤦♂️ many thanks!!
After a quick research and try out, I discovered that neither Mendeley nor Zotero offers a shortauthor
field.
shortauthor
is not listedshortauthor
not available, see Looking for short author fieldHow do you use/implement shortauthor
in practice? I assume it is done manually?
I probably will use the available field shorttitle
in Mendeley, and manually search&replace shorttitle
with shortauthor
in the final bib
file after my paper is done. I know that this could be done automatically with a latex code, which runs every time I compile, but I am not that advanced to realize this, yet.
shortauthor
is a field in the standard biblatex
data model. So software claiming to support biblatex
could be expected to support this field.
I curate my .bib
files manually, so I don't know a lot about tools like Mendeley and Zotero. From what I have seen so far it can be a bit tricky to get Mendeley to produce high-quality .bib
files. I'd expect that there is some way to get Zotero to support shortauthor
, if push comes to shove via Zotero Better BibTeX (https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/).
Hello,
I would like to group author abbreviation according to the The examples in the APA style guide:
I checked the Package documentation and the biblatex-apa-test.tex but I cannot identify, how the group author abbreviation is generated. According to the given example, I assume that The American Psychological Association and APA are defined in the
bib
file.So, How do I achieve group author abbreviation in practice? Where and how is the full author (e.g. The American Psychological Association) and its abbreviation (APA) defined?
Thank you for this regard package!!