BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Modify biblatex-apa

[tobiasStet]

Hi all,

I am currently writing my master's thesis and would like to cite and quote in APA-style (well, it is a requirement, too). Anyhow, after doing some trial and error, and with the biblatex-apa manual it almost works. However, I have two issues I just can't seem to figure out on my own. So I would really appreciate your help.

• In the output file, the issue number of the journal is included in the citation. This should not be the case. It should look only like (Author, Year)

• Unfortunately, the printed bibliography (references) includes the type of the publication (e.g. "Journal Article"). This is also wrong according the the APA-style guide.

I'm not sure if there is a mistake in the biblatex-apa styleguide or I have miscoded something.

Here is my minimal example:

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\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage[ansinew]{inputenc}
\usepackage[american]{babel}


% Verschiedene Pakete ----------------------------------------------
\usepackage{rotating}     % Umdrehen von Objekten (Tabellen, etc.)
\usepackage{array}             % Gleichungen untereinander ordnen und nummerieren
\usepackage{graphicx}     % Grafiken einbinden
\usepackage{url}                % Urls ohne Probleme einbinden
\usepackage{multirow}        % Tabellenzeilen zusammenfassen

% Seitenformat-Pakete ---------------------------------------------------

\usepackage{geometry} %Ränder einstellen
\geometry{a4paper, top=25.4mm, left=25.4mm, right=25.4mm, bottom=25.4mm, % APA Format Style
headsep=10mm, footskip=7mm}

% Paket zum Einstellen des fancy-Designs

\usepackage{fancyhdr}    
\pagestyle{fancy}
\lhead{} % Kopfzeile links
\chead{} % Kopfzeile mitte
\rhead{} % Kopfzeile rechts
\cfoot{\thepage} % Fußzeile mitte
\rfoot{} % Fußzeile rechts    
\lfoot{} % Fußzeile links
% Einstellen, dass im Rechten header das Kapitel gezeigt wird
\renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{%
\markboth{\thesection.\ #1}{}}
\rhead{\nouppercase{\leftmark}}
\renewcommand{\headwidth}{\textwidth}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt}

% Zeilenabstände ---------------------------------------------
%\linespread{1.2}
\usepackage{setspace}
%\onehalfspacing
\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.5}

% Literaturverwaltung------------------------------------------

\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[backend=biber, style=apa]{biblatex}
\DeclareLanguageMapping{american}{american-apa}

\bibliography{Mastersample}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{roman}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\newpage
%%%
\tableofcontents
\newpage
%Inhalte

\pagenumbering{arabic}
\newpage
Due to the explorative nature of this thesis and the comparatively young theories that are combined in it, a research design following the pillars of qualitative content analysis based on expert interviews is applied \autocite{Aberbach.2002}

%\appendix
%\chapter{}
%\input{Tables}
\newpage
\printbibliography
\end{document}

And this is the biblatex File:

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@article{Aberbach.2002,
 author = {Aberbach, Joel D. and Rockman, Bert A.},
 year = {2002},
 title = {Conducting and coding elite interviews},
 pages = {673--676},
 pagination = {page},
 volume = {35},
 issn = {1537-5935},
 journaltitle = {Political Science {\&} Politics},
 issue = {04}
}

@article{Bellamy.2006,
 author = {Bellamy, Jennifer L. and Bledsoe, Sarah E. and Traube, Dorian E.},
 year = {2006},
 title = {The Current State of Evidence-Based Practice in Social Work: A Review of the Literature and Qualitative Analysis of Expert Interviews},
 pages = {23--48},
 pagination = {page},
 volume = {3},
 issn = {1543-3722},
 journaltitle = {Journal of evidence-based social work},
 shortjournal = {J Evid Based Soc Work},
 language = {ENG},
 doi = {\url{10.1300/J394v03n01\textunderscore 02}},
 issue = {1},
} 

I would really appreciate your help. Many thanks. If I can clarify anything, please let me know!

Best
Tobi

[Johannes_B]

Crosspost to the german forum GoLaTeX

[tobiasStet]

Thanks for the crosslink

[Stefan Kottwitz]

The solution, that Tobi posted on goLaTeX.de was:

1. In the file apa.cbx, delete this part:

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\iffieldundef{issue} 
         {} 
         {\addcomma\addspace\printfield{issue}}

2. In the bibliography software, delete the part "Note". Then it works fine.

Stefan