lazyweb LaTeX question (actually, BibTeX)

[trochee]

Does anybody know whether there's a good reason to use apacite for APA style references instead of natbib with apalike which comes with my tetex install?

I'm inclined to use natbib, with apalike just because I won't have to install anything new. and it seems like natbib is a little more popular though perhaps not as strictly coherent to the APA rules.

Anybody worked with this?

Update: This page from Reed suggests that apacite and natbib together is the way to go.

Comments

[mythalethe.livejournal.com]

Have you considered pepox? It is easier to work with APA formatting then gujomb or lakaschmek...

[trochee.livejournal.com]

you know, I did consider pepox, but it turns out that lakaschmek's been updated recently and so it might be better supported.

[mythalethe.livejournal.com]

sorry, that post caught me in a particular mood that could not be resisted...

[trochee.livejournal.com]

don't apologize; it made me giggle.

Sometimes I reflect on what I'm doing and I really feel like a wizard -- the old kind, with magic incantations and seemingly meaningless ingredients for a peculiar potion.

your response pointed out that I was acting that way.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_dkg_/]

it is magical incantations. The words actually can control things in the world, even more directly than the old abracadabra-style stuff!

i so want to steal lakaschmek for the name of my next programming project.