APAcite on Mac OS X with texlive
While compiling a LaTeX document, a blank template of my PhD thesis to be exact, when I got the following error “! LaTeX Error: File `apacite.sty’ not found.” Again a quick search for Mac ports indicated that the texlive-bibtex-extra package was required. It was quickly installed using;
sudo port install texlive-bibtex-extra
Subsequent compile yielded more errors, this time it was “! Undefined control sequence. \abstract”. This was solved using the texlive-latex-extra package, installed using;
sudo port install texlive-latex-extra
Then adding the following to define the abstract in the book documentclass;
% Define abstract in book documentclass \pagestyle{empty} \newenvironment{abstract}% { \onehalfspacing% \null \vfill \chapter*{\centering Abstract}% \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Abstract} }% {\vfill\null}
% Start the actual abstract \begin{abstract} \end{abstract}
More errors resulted “! Use of \@year@ doesn’t match its definition.” I had to add “\bibliographystyle{apacite}” to the bibligraphy page, and all was well once again.
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