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I am so sorry for asking, but i have been unable to find a solution (and i've tried hard). When i add a @author syntax in my rmarkdown script (corresponding to my created bib.file) and knit the file the authors are cited correctly. But when i cite the authors the next time it does not do author et al. (year) but displays all authors again! I have already tried loading other publkic available .rmd and .bib files (that have appropriate citations) but when i knit them myself, the same problem appears. How can i fix this?

I would really appreciate any advices, thanks in advance! <3

Edit: For example, a BibTex entry would look like this:

@article{Zygar-Hoffmann2018,author = {Zygar-Hoffmann, Caroline and Hagemeyer, Birk and Pusch, Sebastian and Sch{\"{o}}nbrodt, Felix D.}, doi = {10.1002/per.2145}, journal = {European Journal of Personality}, number = {3}, pages = {306--324},title = {{From Motive Dispositions to States to Outcomes: An Intensive Experience Sampling Study on Communal Motivational Dynamics in Couples}}, volume = {32}, year = {2018} }.

An in my rmarkdown (papaja template) text i write:

The influence of rather stable motives on behavior is proposed to be (fully) mediated by the current motivation [@Zygar-Hoffmann2018]. The latter describes a varying state that results from an individual’s motive, the current situation and their interaction [@Zygar-Hoffmann2018].

Now i would expect that when knitting the second citation appeared as "Zygar et al. (2018)" but unfortunately it doesn't. I have the latest Version of R, RStudio, MacTex and Mac OS Big Sur installed.

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  • Hi Hanna, could you provide a minimal reproducible example? I'd be happy to take a closer look. – crsh Mar 01 '21 at 10:40
  • Yeah for sure! I am sorry, i am new here and not quite familiar how to upload scripts or anything, i tried to copy my code/text in the question as an edit. Thank you so much in advance! – Hanna Mar 02 '21 at 11:15

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I also get this same behavior when I use pdf_document() and specify the latest version of the APA6 CSL file manually. This tells me that it is a more general problem with citeproc or the current version of the APA6 CSL file. For the time being, you could switch to using biblatex instead by using the following YAML header:

bibliography      : references.bib
biblio-style      : "apa"

output:
  papaja::apa6_pdf:
    citation_package: biblatex

Update: This problem has been fixed. Updating pandoc and citeproc, or waiting for RStudio to ship the new version of citeproc should resolve the problem.

crsh
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