APA Annotated Bibliography

This is a simple LaTeX Template for APA annotated bibliography. Simply add your references to the refs.bib and add them in sequentially using the custom bibentry environment.

Title page

This template provides a simple command that automatically formats the title page. In the main.tex file, set the author, title, subtitle, instructor, course title, and department as follows.

\def\maintitle{Title}
\def\subtitle{Subtitle}
\def\mainauthor{John Doe}
\def\instructor{Jane Doe}
\def\course{Course Title}
\def\school{Department Name}

Then call the \tlpage{} command in main.tex after\begin{document}.

Adding a reference

References must be added to the refs.bib' and then referenced in the main.tex` file. Take the following example of a journal article.

@article{doe:2024,
    title="Some Long Important Title",
    author="Jane Doe",
    year="2024",
    journal="Extremely Fancy Journal"
    volume="1",
    number="1",
}

To reference doe:2024 add it to the main.tex file using the bibentry environment.

\begin{bibentry}{doe:2024}
    Annotation goes here
\end{bibentry}

To edit the bibentry environment, you can find the source in the preamble.tex file.

Building

This template uses the biber engine to format citations. First, you must build the main.tex file using pdflatex, then run biber on the main file, and finally run pdflatex again. You might have to run pdflatex multiple times.

$ pdflatex main.tex && biber main && pdflatex main.tex