Reference includes ADDRESS/LOCATION for @BOOK/@INBOOK if provided

[nilsreimer]

Apologies if I misunderstand how the package is supposed to work. Suppose I want to cite Example 20 from the manual and want to include an address in the .bib file for backward compatibility:

@BOOK{10.2:20,
  AUTHOR         = {L. S. Brown},
  TITLE          = {Feminist Therapy},
  EDITION        = {2},
  ADDRESS        = {Washington, DC},
  PUBLISHER      = {American Psychological Association},
  DATE           = {2018},
  DOI            = {10.1037/0000092-000}
}

I cite this reference as usual:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=apa]{biblatex} 
\addbibresource{example.bib}
\begin{document}
\autocite{10.2:20}.
\printbibliography
\end{document}

I get a reference that (incorrectly) includes the location of the publisher:

Brown, L. S. (2018). Feminist therapy (2nd ed.). Washington, DC, American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000092-000

Can I get biblatex to not include publisher locations in the reference list, even if they are provided in the .bib file, or do I have to manually remove publisher locations from the .bib file? Thank you in advance.

[plk]

This will be fixed in v9.8 which will be released in the next couple of days. It only really concerns book entries as other types of entries in APA 7 do include the location information. If you want to get rid of it for books until v9.8 is released, put this in your preamble:

\DeclareSourcemap{
  \maps[datatype=bibtex]{
    \map{
      \pertype{book}
      \step[fieldset=location, null]
    }
  }
}

[nilsreimer]

Thank your for your swift response—and for maintaining this package!

[moewew]

I'm wondering about the other entry types. (I don't have access to the manual.) It would seem odd to suppress the location for @book and @collection but not for @inbook/@incollection.

\documentclass[british]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}

\usepackage[style=apa, backend=biber]{biblatex}

\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\begin{document}
\autocite{pines,kant:ku}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

The Quick Reference Guide available at https://apastyle.apa.org/instructional-aids/reference-guide.pdf asks not to include the location for all @book/@collection as well as @inbook/@incollection.

[nilsreimer]

It might also be worthwhile to suppress address which is used in the output of some reference managers instead of location.

[plk]

biber maps address to location internally anyway ...

[moewew]

@nilsreimer address shouldn't be an issue as that field is automatically mapped to location. So if the location is not printed, neither is address. You only need to take care of address seprately if you use a sourcemap (e.g. the one shown by PLK above), but since apa.bbx uses another method to suppress the location (namely not to print it), that isn't relevant.

[plk]

I missed inbook - I will change that too.

[moewew]

OK. I couldn't find anything official on other types, but the second-hand accounts that I read all strongly suggest that location is out for pretty much all entry types. (I guess it is hard to prove a negative by examples, so ...)

[plk]

It is used for some misc, unpublished and proceedings types, plus special treatment in the rather non-standard legal types but it is absent in the main types, true.

[moewew]

I noticed location is also used in periodical, which looks a bit odd to me, since @periodical is the type for a journal, and @articles (if you will "@inperiodicals") never show the location (or a publisher).

For @proceedings (@inproceedings) I'm wondering if venue might not be more appropriate. The standard styles group eventtitle, eventdate and venue. location is always the location of the publisher (or equivalent institution, organization).

[plk]

The location fields in APA proceedings and inproceedings look a lot like the standard location fields for publishers ... they also contain the cite/state/country in the same format as for publishers. venue to me is more specific than this, like "So and so conference centre"?

[moewew]

Mhhh, I agree that venue can definitely be more specific than just a city. The only example of venue in biblatex-examples.bib is

@inproceedings{salam,
  author         = {Salam, Abdus},
  editor         = {Svartholm, Nils},
  title          = {Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions},
  date           = 1968,
  booktitle      = {Elementary particle theory},
  booksubtitle   = {Relativistic groups and analyticity},
  booktitleaddon = {Proceedings of the {Eighth Nobel Symposium}},
  eventdate      = {1968-05-19/1968-05-25},
  venue          = {Aspen{\"a}sgarden, Lerum},
  publisher      = {Almquist \& Wiksell},
  location       = {Stockholm},
  pages          = {367-377},
}

where I think "Lerum" is a village and Aspenäs might have been a hotel?

What's important for @(in)procceedings is that location always refers to the publisher, so if you want to give the conference location, venue is the only viable option. This is in contrast to standard BibTeX styles, where address is the location of the publisher except for @inproceedings where it is the location of the conference. biblatex is more consistent there: location is always the publisher (or equivalent) location.

The biblatex docs say

[venue] The location of a conference, a symposium, or some other event in @proceedings and @inproceedings entries. This field may also be useful for the custom types listed in § 2.1.3. Note that the location list holds the place of publication. It therefore corresponds to the publisher and institution lists. The location of the event is given in the venue field. See also eventdate and eventtitle.

I did some more research and all second-hand accounts of APA 7th edition that I found suggest that there is no location information for conference papers published in book-type @proceedings or in a journal. (e.g. https://libguides.jcu.edu.au/apa/articles/conference-papers, http://libguides.lub.lu.se/c.php?g=676676&p=4821142).

APA style appears to want a conference location for unpublished (or formally unpublished) conference material such as sessions or talks: http://writeanswers.royalroads.ca/faq/199260. I would probably want to argue that this material constitutes an entry type separate from @(in)proceedings. I would still use eventtitle+venue there, but I could probably be persuaded to accept location here.

[plk]

I see your point - 9.9 will be released shortly with more consistent use of venue as specified.