SAGE bibliography style sageapa

[nevrome]

Besides sageh and sagev some SAGE journals require APA citation. The sagej.cls knows the option sageapa to achieve this. Unfortunately that does not work with the rticles SAGE template.

If you set

bibliographystyle: sageapa

you get a set of errors:

1. ! LaTeX Error: Command \bibhang already defined.
   Or name \end... illegal, see p.192 of the manual.

This can be "solved" by loading natbib and removing the definition of \bibhang before it's called in line 553 of sagej.cls. I added the following code in the lines 549 and 550:

\usepackage{natbib}
\let\bibhang\relax

Not a nice solution, but it works.

2. This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (TeX Live 2018/Arch Linux)
   The top-level auxiliary file: Untitled.aux
   I couldn't open style file sageapa.bst
   ---line 38 of file Untitled.aux
   : \bibstyle{sageapa
   : }
   I'm skipping whatever remains of this command
   I found no style file---while reading file Untitled.aux

This can be "solved" by adding a file sageapa.bst that contains the content of mslapa.bst.

3. ! Missing = inserted for \ifnum.
   \def
   l.233 \citep{Taylor1937}
   , \citep{Knupp1999, Kamm2000}.

I have no solution for this. Most probably it's caused by the hacks in 1. and 2..

Could you please apply some changes to the rticles SAGE template to make it work with the bibliographystyle: sageapa option? I know that this is a feature request, but on the other hand the template is of limited use if it can't be employed for many SAGE journals.

[yihui]

Hi @oguzhanogreden, do you have any ideas here? (For the record, SAGE was introduced in #181).

[oguzhanogreden]

The template in the package has the command \usepackage{moreverb,url,natbib,multirow, tabularx} which does not exist in the original sagej.cls file, neither in the example template provided here. This is the cause of the initial error.

I think we should avoid changing sagej.cls as long as possible. I haven't tested it but I'd go for something like modifying the template.tex's initial lines:

% Better to make the line below conditional on $classoption$==sageapa
\let\bibhang\relax
\usepackage{moreverb,url, natbib, multirow, tabularx}
% The line should be conditional too
\setlength{\bibhang}{16pt}

and indeed add mslapa.bst as sageapa.bst.

I hope this is helpful, since I won't have time to try and figure this out, unfortunately.

[nevrome]

Thanks for taking a look at this @oguzhanogreden! Unfortunately that doesn't help me much.

Sure it's better to solve this in the template.tex, but I was not even able to figure out how to formulate the conditional in this pandoc markup language. Something like this

$if($classoption$==sageapa)$
\let\bibhang\relax
$endif$

doesn't seem to be allowed.

Even if I would get this to work my actual problem 3. would persist with this solution, wouldn't it?

[yihui]

Closing since I'm not able to offer any help here. Sorry.

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