Typst `bibliographystyle: apa` loses "et al." abbreviation in in-text references after first appearance

[mvuorre]

Bug description

I write a basic Typst document as follows

---
title: "Hello, Quarto"
format: typst
bibliography: bibliography.bib
bibliographystyle: apa
---

This should say et al @bolger2019.

This should say et al @bolger2019.

Which renders to

However, the second instance of the citation should also use the "et al." in-text citation abbreviaton, but instead writes out the names of all authors.

This Typst project shows the desired behavior:

Steps to reproduce

Full code to reproduce, including an example bibliography.bib file is at https://github.com/mvuorre/quarto-typst-reprex

Expected behavior

Both in-text citations should use "et al." abbreviaton.

Actual behavior

The second citation reads expands to all authors' names.

Your environment

• OS: MacOS 14.5

Quarto check output

Quarto 1.5.47 [✓] Checking versions of quarto binary dependencies... Pandoc version 3.2.0: OK Dart Sass version 1.70.0: OK Deno version 1.41.0: OK Typst version 0.11.0: OK [✓] Checking versions of quarto dependencies......OK [✓] Checking Quarto installation......OK Version: 1.5.47 Path: /Applications/quarto/bin

[✓] Checking tools....................OK TinyTeX: (not installed) Chromium: (not installed)

[✓] Checking LaTeX....................OK Using: Installation From Path Path: /Library/TeX/texbin Version: 2024

[✓] Checking basic markdown render....OK

[✓] Checking Python 3 installation....OK Version: 3.12.4 Path: /opt/homebrew/opt/python@3.12/bin/python3.12 Jupyter: (None)

  Jupyter is not available in this Python installation.
  Install with python3 -m pip install jupyter

[✓] Checking R installation...........OK Version: 4.4.1 Path: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.4-arm64/Resources LibPaths:

• /Users/matti/Library/R/arm64/4.4/library
• /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.4-arm64/Resources/library knitr: 1.46 rmarkdown: 2.27

[✓] Checking Knitr engine render......OK

[mcanouil]

I'm not sure how's the issue is Quarto. You are using Typst built-in bibliography system: https://typst.app/docs/reference/model/bibliography/ Quarto does not do anything here. You can check keep-typ: true.

To me the issue is from Typst.

Input	Output
- Command ```sh quarto typst compile issue10105.typ ``` - `issue10105.typ` ````typ This should say et al #cite(, form: "prose");. This should say et al #cite(, form: "prose");. #set bibliography(style: "apa") #bibliography("bibliography.bib") ````

[mcanouil]

Workaround: use Pandoc citeproc as documented in https://quarto.org/docs/output-formats/typst.html#bibliography

[mvuorre]

Thanks! Perhaps there is a Typst version mismatch somewhere, then, because this works appropriately in the online Typst app: https://typst.app/project/w4lL8ljtKmp9tgR87kFZnj:

I think I will go with the citeproc workaround, even though that does not format the reference section appropriately either (no hanging indent):

Note; this latter issue is not due to https://www.zotero.org/styles/apa because that works well in other contexts:

[mcanouil]

Quarto does not use the latest. You can check the version being used with quarto check versions.

Note; this latter issue is not due to https://www.zotero.org/styles/apa because that works well in other contexts:

That's because this is Pandoc Citeproc handling CSL. Typst has its own system which does not work properly in the current version Quarto 1.5 embeds.

[mcanouil]

FYI, you can look at the changelog of the last release of Typst: https://github.com/typst/typst/releases/tag/v0.11.1

Fixed et-al handling in subsequent citations

I'm not sure Typst will be updated once more in 1.5. (cc @cscheid )

[mvuorre]

Ok, thanks!

[gordonwoodhull]

Confirmed, both the minimal Typst example and the .qmd produce the correct output with Typst 0.11.1 but not with Typst 0.11.0.

Unfortunately we are too late in the release cycle to update Typst for 1.5, but we will be sure to update it early in 1.6.

As a workaround, you could set QUARTO_TYPST=/path/to/typst0.11.1, but we haven't tested this configuration, so we can't support it.

[mcanouil]

@gordonwoodhull Thanks for confirming!

[cscheid]

You know, this is actually an argument that I'm wrong, and we should try fixing this in 1.5

[cscheid]

Closed by #10116.

[cscheid]

We can't take in 0.11.1 yet because of a cross-architecture bug (see #10157). Pushing to 1.6.

[cscheid]

There's an open bug on the Typst repo about this: https://github.com/typst/typst/issues/4242

[cscheid]

They've found the reason and have a fix. We should be able to take this very early into 1.6 and cleanly backport to the first stable 1.5 patch.