[Tex/LaTex] Apacite – Different citation output for multiple authors

Question

I have a question that I haven't been able to solve, even though I got through the documentation , web pages and apacite.bst code (although I'm quite new with this stuff). The problem is as follows:

Using apacite citation style package, I'd like

\citeA{ref} argued that the value of ... 

to be rendered as

Borges and collaborators (2006) argued that the value of …

and at the same time, if the citation is not textual, the code

was proved \cite{ref}.

should be rendered as

was proved (Borges et al., 2006).

In summary, when a citation results in an "et al.", I would like it to have different outputs whether it is a text citation (and colaborators) or a normal citation (et al.).

Already tested renewcommand \BOthers but it affects both types of citation.

Can you help me?

Answer 1

In the definition of \BOthers, we may test wether we're inside a \citeA citation command or not and typeset the appropriate string. Looking into apacite.sty, the internal \@BAY macro (the "after year" string) is a good test candidate -- its definition is \BBCP in "citeA" citations, and empty otherwise. For convenience, I use the etoolbox package and its \ifdefstring macro to amend the definition of \BOthers.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{apacite}

\usepackage{etoolbox}

\makeatletter
\AtBeginDocument{%
  \renewcommand{\BOthers}[1]{%
    \ifdefstring{\@BAY}{\BBCP}{%
      and collaborators\hbox{}%
    }{%
      et al.\hbox{}%
    }%
  }%
}
\makeatother

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{A01,
  author = {Author, A. and B and C and D and E and F},
  year = {2001},
  title = {Alpha},
}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{document}

\citeA{A01} argued~\dots

\dots\ was proved \cite{A01}.

\bibliographystyle{apacite}
\bibliography{\jobname}

\end{document}