What style should I use to make the citations rendering as (Einstein, 1915)? Using biblatex on Overleaf
[Tex/LaTex] Biblatex APA citation with parentheses
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You wrote
... there is no support in
natbibfor online citations.
Sadly (or, rather, fortunately!), this claim is incorrect. Moreover, the apa-good.bst bibliography style file recognizes a field named url among the valid field names. Here's the file's bibtex code for the function write.url:
FUNCTION {write.url}
{ url empty$
{ skip$ }
{ "\newline\urlprefix\url{" url * "}" * write$ newline$ }
if$
}
You'll need to have the url package loaded (to make it understand the instructions \url and \urlprefix).
If you don't like the \newline instruction, which tells LaTeX to insert a line break before the start of the URL, you can remove it from the code; just save the file to something like "myapa-good.bst", and then invoke this new file. However, the linebreak may be part of APA style and hence shouldn't be eliminated willy-nilly.
To sum up, using any of natbib's citation commands, you should get bibliography entries with associated URLs (assuming, of course, that the entries' URL fields aren't blank!)
For citations as in C, you could write \parencite[Kap.~4]{testart} or \parencite[5]{testart} (see examples below).
Note that you should use the citation macros with curly braces, so use \cite{MeierMüller2003} not \cite MeierMüller2003.
To change the andothers string from u. a to et al., you need to edit the localisation strings. Just put the following two lines after \DeclareLanguageMapping{ngerman}{ngerman-apa} in your document.
\DefineBibliographyStrings{ngerman}{%
andothers ={et\addabbrvspace al\adddot},
andmore ={et\addabbrvspace al\adddot},
}
Alternatively, you can create a file with the following content and save it under ngerman-apaed.lbx in the directory your .tex document is located.
\ProvidesFile{ngerman-apaed.lbx}
\InheritBibliographyExtras{ngerman-apa}% extras are inherited from ngerman ...
\DeclareBibliographyStrings{%
inherit = {ngerman-apa},% .... as well as all the keys
andothers = {{et\addabbrvspace al\adddot}{et\addabbrvspace al\adddot}},
andmore = {{et\addabbrvspace al\adddot}{et\addabbrvspace al\adddot}},
}
You then modify the line \DeclareLanguageMapping{ngerman}{ngerman-apa} to \DeclareLanguageMapping{ngerman}{ngerman-apaed}.
MWE
\documentclass[ngerman, a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=apa,sortcites=true,sorting=nyt,backend=biber]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\DeclareLanguageMapping{ngerman}{ngerman-apa}
\DefineBibliographyStrings{ngerman}{%
andothers ={et\addabbrvspace al\adddot},
andmore ={et\addabbrvspace al\adddot},
}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{testartlong,
author = {Arnold Uthor and William Riter and Rita Esearcher and Steven C. Ientist and Stuart Udent and Peter R. Ofessor and Lewis E. C. Turer},
title = {A Very Interesting Article},
journal = {Journal of Articles},
volume = {8},
number = {2},
page = {1-5},
date = {2010},
}
@article{testart,
author = {Arnold Uthor and William Riter},
title = {A Very Interesting Article},
journal = {Journal of Articles},
volume = {7},
number = {3},
page = {1-5},
date = {2010},
}
@book{testbook,
author = {Walter Ordsmith},
editor = {Eddie Ditor},
title = {The Work},
subtitle = {Subtitle},
date = {1983},
}
@online{testonline,
author = {Bernie Logger},
title = {A Very Opinionated Blog Post},
url = {http://example.com},
year = {2013},
}
\end{filecontents}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{rl}
\verb|\cite{testart}| & \cite{testart}\\
\verb|\textcite{testart}| & \textcite{testart}\\
\verb|\parencite{testart}| & \parencite{testart}\\
\verb|\parencite[Kap.~4]{testart}| & \parencite[Kap.~4]{testart}\\
\verb|\parencite[15]{testart}| & \parencite[15]{testart}
\end{tabular}
\parencite{testartlong} and \parencite[5]{testbook}
\nocite{*}
\printbibliography
\end{document}
Edit
For multiple citations within one pair of parentheses use \parencites or \parencite.
\parencites(Herzkreislauf;)()[34]{testartlong}[Kap.~4]{testbook} yields (Herzkreislauf; Uthor et al., 2010, S. 34; Ordsmith, 1983, Kap. 4); \parencites[Pre][Post]{testartlong,testbook} gives us (Pre Ordsmith, 1983; Uthor et al., 2010, Post).
See also sections 3.7 to 3.7.6 of the BibLaTeX documentation
Best Answer
For real APA citations you want to use the package
biblatex-apa(7th-edition APA style) orbiblatex-apa6(6th-edition APA style).With
biblatex-apausestyle=apa,. Withbiblatex-apa6you'd usestyle=apa6,in the example below.If you just want author-year citations and not necessarily all that APA style entails (some people call this class of styles "Harvard style"), you can use the standard
authoryearstyle and customise it to your liking (Guidelines for customizing biblatex styles).Independent of the exact details of the style, most
biblatexstyles print citations in parentheses if you use\parencite. Often it is preferable to use\autociteand configure it to produce citations in parentheses (this is usually the default for author-year styles).Apart from
\autociteand\parencitemanybiblatexstyles define\textcite, which comes in handy in case you want to mention the author in your sentence.