I am very new to LaTeX, and I'm trying to set up my citation and bibliography format. The only problem I have left is that my volume/issue is displayed in italics when I use the apacite
bibliography style. How can I change this so that this is no longer in italics?
My text is as follows (I'm just trying things out for now):
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{thesis}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{apacite}
\usepackage[left=2cm,right=2cm,top=2cm,bottom=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[round]{natbib}
\author{Kristian Jensen}
\title{Bibliography in \LaTeX}
\begin{document}
\renewcommand{\BBAA}{and}
\renewcommand{\BBAB}{and}
\renewcommand{\BAnd}{and}
We are now going to try out how this works by doing a citation.
Here it is: \citep{Pressair}.
That's it for now.
\bibliographystyle{apacite}
\bibliography{mybib}
\end{document}
And from my mybib.bib
file:
@Article{Pressair,
author = {Press, F., and Ewing, M.},
title = {Theory of aircoupled flexural waves},
journal = {Journal of Applied Physics},
volume = {22},
number = {7},
year = {1951},
pages = {892-899},
}
In my reference list now, everything looks OK except for the volume/issue which is displayed as 22(7) when I want it to be 22(7) (not italics). If anyone can help me fix this, then I will really appreciate it!
Best Answer
The
apacite
package contains a LaTeX macro that determines the default formatting of thejournal
,volume
,number
, andpages
fields for entries of type@article
. This macro is called\APACjournalVolNumPages
, and its default definition may be found inapacite.sty
starting at around line 1275.To modify this macro, I suggest loading the
etoolbox
package and using that package's\patchcmd
macro. Specifically, you should insert the following lines of code in the preamble, after having the loaded theapacite
package:The macro
\Bem
is an alias for\emph
. Basically, the modification of the\APACjournalVolNumPages
macro consists in removing the italics emphasis of the second argument -- the contents of thevolume
field.A full MWE: