Bibliography in APA style problems

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While writing my proposal, I am struggling with setting my bibliography to APA-format. Currently, I use the following code:
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documentclass[onecolumn, 9pt, a4 paper]{proposal}
%usepackage[english]{babel}   
%usepackage{fontspec}
% PAGE MARGINS
usepackage[top=2.54cm, bottom=2.54cm, left=3.17cm, right=3.17cm]{geometry}

% FONT (similar to Verdana)
usepackage[lf]{berenis}
renewcommand*familydefault{sfdefault} 
usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

%graphs
usepackage{graphicx}
graphicspath{figs}

%bibliography
usepackage[backend=biber, style=numeric, citestyle=apa ]{biblatex}
addbibresource{sample.bib}

Does someone see the error?

moewe · Answer

The problem is the 'mixed' style setup in
usepackage[backend=biber, style=numeric, citestyle=apa ]{biblatex}

That line effectively requests a numeric bibliography style but APA citations. That doesn't work particularly well (because biblatex-apa effectively assumes it is used as both bibliography and citation style, but even if it didn't do that, the result would still be odd).
For proper APA style you probably want a biblatex setup like
documentclass[american]{article}
usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
usepackage{babel}
usepackage{csquotes}

usepackage[backend=biber, style=apa]{biblatex}

addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

begin{document}
Lorem autocite{sigfridsson}

printbibliography
end{document}

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