BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Citations of Newspapers in APSR Style

[johnnehm]

I am not sure if this is the proper place to post this however:

I am trying to compile my bibliography that was made using Mendeley. I am using the apsr.bst. However, I have a great deal of newspapers and need to cite them properly. This shouldn't be a problem, however when I export to PDF all I get is:

The New York Times. 2011b. “Discord Amongst Allies.”.
(This is an editorial so the author is the newspaper)
When I need it to look like this:
McRee, Gary P. 1999. “Article Title.” Newspaper, 14 July: A2, A15.


I know that the apa citation bst is able to handle newspapers but for whatever reason this destroys my formatting... help?

[margret]

I have exactly the same problem. apacite is no option since it does not show the full first name.
so - APSR does not show the full date (day, month) of newspapers and not even the newspaper name.
What can i do to change that? How to deal with Citations of Newspapers?

[Johannes_B]

Hi and welcome,

if you have the choice, please consider using the modern package biblatex along with the bibliography processor biber.

You can ccreate a new entrytype newspaper and define what fields you can enter, in which order they are diplayed in the bibliography, and how it is cited in the text.

It needs a bit of hands work though, if you want to make it good.

[margret]

thanks a lot i changed to biber/biblatex and am now actually searching for "basic" information for a non-super tech person how i can adapt my style (apsr) and needs to both in lyx...for now i did not find basic information how to adapt it do you have a hint? most pages i find seem to take for granted i know how to code it in...
sorry for this super basic question

[Johannes_B]

You need to go to the basic level of LaTeX for that. LyX is a tool for people with basic understandings of LaTeX, as far as a LyX developer once said.

You can ask on LyX mailing list for help, though.

With the information given right now, i cannot really be of much further help.