LaTeX template for articles in APA format

Instructions.md

Compile this template by executing the following in a command shell:

  pdflatex test && biber test && pdflatex test && pdflatex test

This template uses biblatex and biber instead of good old BibTeX. The bibliography files (*.bib) can have the same format (although biblatex allows using some interesting extensions). However, the biblatex+biber combo is much more powerful than good-old BibTeX (e.g. support for multiple bibliographies in one document) and comes with great documentation.

Suggestions for improvements welcome.

test.bib

@article{MalsburgVasishth2011,
  author = {von der Malsburg, Titus and Shravan Vasishth},
  sortname = {Malsburg},
  title = {What is the scanpath signature of syntactic reanalysis?},
  journal = {Journal of Memory and Language},
  volume = {65},
  number = {2},
  pages = {109--127},
  year = {2011},
  doi = {10.1016/j.jml.2011.02.004},
  abstract = {Which repair strategy does the language system deploy when it gets garden-pathed, and what can regressive eye movements in reading tell us about reanalysis strategies? Several influential eye-tracking studies on syntactic reanalysis (Frazier & Rayner, 1982; Meseguer,Carreiras, & Clifton, 2002; Mitchell, Shen, Green, & Hodgson, 2008) have addressed this question by examining scanpaths, i.e., sequential patterns of eye fixations. However, in the absence of a suitable method for analyzing scanpaths, these studies relied on simplified dependent measures that are arguably ambiguous and hard to interpret. We address the theoretical question of repair strategy by developing a new method that quantifies scanpath similarity. Our method reveals several distinct fixation strategies associated with reanalysis that went undetected in a previously published data set (Meseguer et al., 2002).  One prevalent pattern suggests re-parsing of the sentence, a strategy that has been discussed in the literature (Frazier & Rayner, 1982); however, readers differed tremendously in how they orchestrated the various fixation strategies. Our results suggest that the human parsing system non-deterministically adopts different strategies when confronted with the disambiguating material in garden-path sentences.},
  keywords = {eyemovements, method, parsing, scanpaths, syntacticreanalysis},
}

test.tex

\documentclass[man]{apa6}
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[backend=biber,useprefix=true,style=apa,url=false,doi=false,eprint=false]{biblatex}
\DeclareLanguageMapping{american}{american-apa}
\addbibresource{test.bib}

\title{Full title}
\shorttitle{Short title}
\leftheader{Author 1, Author 2}
\twoauthors{Author 1}{Author 2}
\twoaffiliations{Affiliation 1}{Affiliation 2}
\authornote{Here are the acknowledgements.}
\keywords{keyword1, keyword2}
\abstract{Here’s the abstract.}

\begin{document}
\maketitle
This is the body of the manuscript \parencite{MalsburgVasishth2011}.

\printbibliography[]
\end{document}

Thanks for your template. Could you help me? I have this error

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.18 (TeX Live 2017/Debian) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./test.tex
LaTeX2e <2017-04-15>
Babel <3.18> and hyphenation patterns for 3 language(s) loaded.

! LaTeX Error: File `apa6.cls' not found.

Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
or enter new name. (Default extension: cls)

after run

  pdflatex test && biber test && pdflatex test && pdflatex test

You need to install the apa6 LaTeX class.

Hello tmalsburg! It is great to have your project! However, could I ask whether you are planning the APA7 program or not?

Haven't used the apa7 package yet, but have you tried replacing apa6 with apa7 in the first line?

Hi thank you so much for you reply! I think it did not work. I am a coding novice. And I find things are getting complicated when downloading a LaTeX project from Overleaf then editing on VS Code + Mactex... If you would to have a look at this project. It is performing differently on Overleaf and locally, especially in terms of citation.

https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-and-sample-for-authoring-apa7-manuscripts/pvhtwcrvcmsp