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I got the following request for help from a grad student in Psychology
here at Berkeley.  She sent me a patch for apalike.bst that fixes the
"&" problem.  However, the other two problems are beyond the limited
skills of either one of us.  Can anyone help us find a solution?  TeX is
not widely used in psychology circles.  It's use might be more
widespread if it handled APA styles correctly.

Please reply by e-mail even if you post a response to the net.

Ethan Munson
munson@cs.berkeley.edu

; 
; I'm using LaTeX/BibTeX for my dissertation and i've
; noticed a few bugs.  I thought i'd pass them on to
; you in the remote chance that you've fixed them.
; 
; I think the main problem is because i'm using APA format
; (apalike.sty).  The first bug is that citations and references with
; two authors should be separated by "&", rather than "and" (e.g. smith
; & jones, 1991).  I fixed this in the file apalike.bst (on my machine).
; The second bug is that "in press" citations are truncated to 4
; characters in the text but not in the bibliography (e.g smith & jones,
; ress).  I can fix this by hand in the .bbl file.  The last bug is that
; APA format requires that three or more authors be cited as "et al.",
; EXCEPT for the first citation.  So, for example, the first citation is
; (smith, jones, \& brown, 1991), the subsequent ones are (smith et al.,
; 1991).  The code in apalike.bst causes them to all be listed as "et
; al."  Again, I can fix this by hand, but it is a real PAIN.
; 
; So, are these bugs you have encountered?  Have they been
; fixed?  Do you even care?
;