Using tufte with a different reference style (APA, biblatex?)

[Adil Sarıbay]

Hi all,

I resolved some questions in a previous post but I have a new, more specific question, so I thought I would open a new post for that. 
I have modified the tufte-latex with this command:

\documentclass[nobib]{tufte-book}

And I use this kind of command for in-text citations:

\sidenote{\cite{Kennedy2008}} 

This produces a brief reference on the sidenote such as: [Kennedy and Pronin(2008)]

When I print the bibliography, I get:

[Kennedy and Pronin( 2008)] K. A. Kennedy and E. Pronin. When
Disagreement Gets Ugly: Perceptions of Bias and the Escalation of Conflict. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin,
34( 6):833–848, mar 2008. ISSN 0146-1672. doi: 10.1177/
0146167208315158. URL http://psp.sagepub.com/cgi/doi/
10.1177/0146167208315158.

This is close to the intended effect but not exactly.  I would like to modify the side reference a bit, to be something like:  (Kennedy & Pronin, 2008)

When there are multiple authors, I would like the sidenote to include them all the first time I cite that work, like: (Kennedy, Pronin, & Smith, 2012)
And in each subsequent citation, it should automatically become (Kennedy et al., 2012)

This is basically the APA style.

I would also like the bibliography to be in APA style which is a bit different than the above example.

There is a latex template for APA style.  I think it uses biblatex whereas tufte uses natbib.  I have no knowledge of what these (biblatex and natbib) are.  I guess I would like to use the biblatex to allow me to do the above automatically.  I've tried to modify tufte preamble by copying other APA style documents but to no avail.

Does anyone know how I can accomplish this?

Many thanks in advance. 

[Tom Dye]


You might start with this in the preamble:
\usepackage[style=apa,backend=biber]{biblatex}

This will use the apa-biblatex package, which might or might not be available on your system. 

You will also need something like this in the preamble to point biblatex to your bibliography database:

\addbibresource{my-biblatex.bib}

hth,
Tom