Formatting issue with book reviews
Quaeeee opened this issue · 2 comments
A full stop seems to be missing for review entries without titles, when they are displayed in the reference list. (Sorry for nitpicking!)
Here's the MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=apa]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{filecontents}[force]{\jobname.bib}
@article{Craig1990-CRAKAT,
author = {Edward Craig},
publisher = {Oxford University Press},
title = {Knowledge and the State of Nature},
year = {1990},
}
@article{Steup1992-STEKAT-15,
publisher = {Duke University Press},
pages = {856},
number = {4},
volume = {101},
author = {Matthias Steup},
journal = {Philosophical Review},
year = {1992},
RELATED = {Craig1990-CRAKAT},
RELATEDTYPE = {reviewof},
RELATEDSTRING = {Review of the book},}
\end{filecontents}
\begin{document}
\cite{Steup1992-STEKAT-15}
\printbibliography
\end{document}
This gives the following in the entry list:
According to APA manual Section 10.7 and this site, there probably should be a full stop after the year, i.e., 'Steup, M. (1992). [Revi....'.
The full stop is missing only if no title is given to the review article (which is often the case with reviews in journals, in philosophy at least). A workaround I found is adding title = {\phantom{}}
in the .bib
file (title = {}
doesn't work, btw). This creates a little bit of extra space though.
Thanks for pointing this out - fixed in source for next version. As a fix now, find your local copy of apa.bbx
(run kpsewhich apa.bbx
) and then replace line 1541 with:
\printdelim{nametitledelim}\newblock
That fixed it. Thanks for the quick response!