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Biblatex APA6 not getting parentheses in year of in-text citation

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I’m using Biblatex package and when citing in-text, i.e. cite{...} and it renders the year following author’s last name without the parentheses in the year, e.g. cite{einstein} renders as "Einstein 1905". And as long as I know, APA 6th edition rules in-text citations with parentheses, i.e. it should be "Einstein (1905)".

I’d be thankful if you could guide me in what is missing in the apa6 setup in Biblatex, and even if this mentioned package is reliable in terms of citing with APA for a journal article.

Thanks!

I attach my main.tex and sample.bib files and output:

documentclass{article}
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
usepackage[english]{babel}

% Sets-up bibtex for APA 6th
usepackage[backend=biber, style=apa,]{biblatex}
addbibresource{sample.bib} % Imports bibliography file

title{Template}
author{Author}
begin{document}
maketitle
section{First section}

Items that are cited: textit{The LaTeX Companion} book cite{latexcompanion}, The Einstein's journal paper cite{einstein} and the Dirac's book cite{dirac} are physics related items. Next, a citation about textit{The LaTeX Companion} book cite{latexcompanion}.

medskip

printbibliography
end{document}
@article{einstein,
  author =       "Albert Einstein",
  title =        "{Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter K{"o}rper}. ({German})
                 [{On} the electrodynamics of moving bodies]",
  journal =      "Annalen der Physik",
  volume =       "322",
  number =       "10",
  pages =        "891--921",
  year =         "1905",
  DOI =          "http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/andp.19053221004",
  keywords =     "physics"
}

@book{dirac,
  title={The Principles of Quantum Mechanics},
  author={Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac},
  isbn={9780198520115},
  series={International series of monographs on physics},
  year={1981},
  publisher={Clarendon Press},
  keywords = {physics}
}

@book{latexcompanion,
    author    = "Michel Goossens and Frank Mittelbach and Alexander Samarin",
    title     = "The LaTeX Companion",
    year      = "1993",
    publisher = "Addison-Wesley",
    address   = "Reading, Massachusetts",
    keywords  = "latex"
}
 
@online{knuthwebsite,
    author    = "Donald Knuth",
    title     = "Knuth: Computers and Typesetting",
    url       = "http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/abcde.html",
    keywords  = "latex,knuth"
}

@inbook{knuth-fa,
   author = "Donald E. Knuth",
   title = "Fundamental Algorithms",
   publisher = "Addison-Wesley",
   year = "1973",
   chapter = "1.2",
   keywords  = "knuth,programming"
}

@book{knuth-acp,
   author = "Donald E. Knuth",
   publisher = "Addison-Wesley",
   title = "The Art of Computer Programming",
   series = "Four volumes",
   year = "1968",
   note = "Seven volumes planned",
   keywords  = "knuth,programming"
}

@article{ctan,
    author  = "George D. Greenwade",
    title   = "The {C}omprehensive {T}ex {A}rchive {N}etwork ({CTAN})",
    year    = "1993",
    journal = "TUGBoat",
    volume  = "14",
    number  = "3",
    pages   = "342--351",
    keywords  = "latex"
}

output

One Answer

The standard citation commands in author/year styles in biblatex are textcite which yields Author (year) and parencite which yields (Author, year). Depending on the style cite is supported but aliased to one of the other citation commands. In the case of apa it's aliased to a version of parencite but without the parentheses.

So instead of cite you should use textcite. For strings of references inside parentheses you should use parencite which properly will remove the parentheses around the year when the citation itself is inside parentheses.

Also, at date of writing this answer, style=apa implements the APA 7th edition; to get conforming APA 6th edition style, use style=apa6.

Correct answer by Alan Munn on June 28, 2021

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