[texhax] Problem with BIBTEX (apa-good.bst file)

[Alan Litchfield]

I have had a brief look through the author's snippets and this bst file look
to me as though it were created to suit his specific needs. As such it is not
guaranteed to meet the requirements of APA 5th, let alone 6th. I have to ask
why you are suing this apa style file and not something that is proven good
such as apacite on ctan.

http://elena.aut.ac.nz/ctan/help/Catalogue/entries/apacite.html

You could a lot of time fiddling around with finding and correcting errors of
various kinds.

Alan

Stephen Hicks wrote:
> I'm looking at the apa-good.bst source here:
>
> http://github.com/whenders0n/thesis/blob/78c5338cfb25b2a0e3b7b31e4babee394d5b1088/extrrrastuff/APA/apa-good.bst
>
> Note that on line 978 (FUNCTION {inbook}) there are two "if$"
> statements (this is a postfix language, like postscript or RPN
> calculators).  The editor fields are only output if the author is
> empty (I'm not sure what's going on in the other branch since I've
> never found a good reference to bst).  In any case, you might try
> copying the bst file and replacing it with a new one in your local
> directory with a slightly different name, and change lines 980-990
> (inclusive) to
>
>   author empty$
>     { format.editors "author and editor" output.check
>       editor format.key output
>     }
>     { format.authors output.nonnull
>       editor empty$
>       'skip$
>       { format.editors output.nonnull }
>       if$
>     }
>   if$
>
> I've certainly removed functionality here, since I don't know what's
> up with crossref, but this could maybe possibly get the job done for
> you...?
>
> Cheers,
> steve
>
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Chandrasekaran, Lakshmi
> <lchand at lsuhsc.edu> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> I am Lakshmi Chandrasekaran, a postdoctoral fellow, in Louisiana State
>> University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans.
>>
>>
>>
>> I am using LATEX to write a journal article. I use the “apa-good.bst”
>> style
>> file in order to run BIBTEX. Â I need to include a book Chapter in the
>> references list.  In the .bib file,  when I use the heading @INBOOK and
>> then
>> give the required information like author  name, editor name, year, pages,
>> publisher etc.  I do not see the “editor names” appearing in the
>> references
>> page when I compile the tex file. Â I am not sure what the problem is and
>> Â I
>> am wondering if you could help me fix this issue.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Lakshmi
>>
>>
>>
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