BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ How to set up the preamble for APA-referencing

[Seanshine]

Dear readers,

Being somewhat pressed for time, I am confused on how to set up the correct environment for APA-citing. Current preamble:

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\documentclass[
11pt,english, onehalfspacing, nolistspacing, liststotoc, headsepline,oneside, 
chapterinoneline, reqno, a4paper
%consistentlayout, change the layout of the declaration, abstract and acknowledgements pages to match the default layout
]{MastersDoctoralThesis}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{amsthm, amsmath, amssymb, amsfonts, exscale, latexsym, float, eucal, mathtools}
\usepackage{booktabs, floatrow, threeparttable, adjustbox, textcomp, mathpazo, lipsum}
\usepackage[backend=bibtex, style=apa, natbib=true]{biblatex}
\DeclareLanguageMapping{american}{american-apa}
\usepackage[autostyle=true]{csquotes}
\addbibresource{References.bib}

\printbibliography[heading=bibintoc, title={References}]

For example, how does on achieve:

1. ''X and Y'' (YEAR, pages) state that ...''
2. ".... (X, et. al. YEAR, PAGES)"

With a nice cross-reference link to the appropriate paper in the references section.

Thanks!

[Johannes_B]

Do you know what an error message looks like? Do you know what error messages are for? From the exmple in the other thread, i was informed by biblatex, that you need biber as backend, not bibtex (template default).

Use biber instead. -> https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions ... -citations

[Seanshine]

Thanks for the reference, your help has been invaluable!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I guess the point is changing backend=bibtex to backend=biber:

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

ShareLaTeX supports biblatex with biber.

Stefan

[Seanshine]

Hi,

I am still somewhat confused with citing. For most papers/books I have retrieved the BibTex from Google.Scholar or used a certain website that provides a BibTex if you insert the ISBN-number. The following lines are in my preamble:

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\documentclass[
11pt,english, onehalfspacing, nolistspacing, liststotoc, headsepline,oneside, 
chapterinoneline, reqno, a4paper, toctotoc,
]{MastersDoctoralThesis}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{xpatch}
\usepackage{amsthm, amsmath, amssymb, amsfonts, exscale, latexsym, float, eucal, mathtools}
\usepackage{booktabs, threeparttable, adjustbox, textcomp, mathpazo, lipsum}

\usepackage[autostyle=true]{csquotes}  % Required to generate language-dependent quotes in the bibliography
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=apa, natbib=true]{biblatex}
\DeclareLanguageMapping{english}{english-apa}
\addbibresource{References.bib}

\printbibliography[heading=bibintoc, title={References}]

An example BibTex:

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@article{holston2017,
  title     =   {Measuring the natural rate of interest: International trends and determinants},
  author    =   {Holston, Kathryn and Laubach, Thomas and Williams, John C},
  journal   =   {Journal of International Economics},
  volume    =   {108},
  pages     =   {59--75},
  year      =   {2017},
  publisher =   {Elsevier}
}

 @Book{galí2008mon,
 author     =   {Galí, Jordi},
 title      =   {Monetary policy, inflation, and the business cycle : an introduction to the new Keynesian framework},
 publisher  =   {Princeton University Press},
 year       =   {2008},
 address    =   {Princeton, N.J},
 isbn       =   {9780691133164}
 }

A few issues that arise is that 'et al.' is not always displayed if there are more than two authors. Furthermore, LaTeX is unable to cite the above mentioned book by Galí, not sure why this is happening. Lastly, is there a way to hyperref the entire citation, instead of only the year?

Thanks guys, I am almost finished!!