%% README: short description of the APACITE distribution
%% Copyright 2003 Erik Meijer (e.meijer@eco.rug.nl)
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The apacite package and bibstyle are the zillionth attempt
at capturing the requirements of the American Psychological
Association concerning citations and reference list. It was
written because the theapa package and bibstyle I was using,
which seemed to me the best available, turned out to be
far from good enough to me. The apacite package and bibstyle
will not handle every possible citation correctly, but more
usual ones are handled correctly.

Contents of the current APACITE distribution:

apacite.sty  ->  The LaTeX citation package. This must
                 be placed in a directory where TeX can find it;

apacite.bst  ->  The BibTeX reference list style. This must be placed
                 in a directory where BibTeX can find it;

apacitex.bst ->  The BibTeX reference list style with added author
                 index support. This must also be placed in a directory
                 where BibTeX can find it;

apacite.tex  ->  Extensive user's manual and test of the apacite package;

apa5ex.bib   ->  The file with bibliographic information about the
                 references in apacite.tex;

README       ->  The current file. A brief introduction and how-to-start
                 information.


The documentation of the apacite package can be obtained by processing
the file apacite.tex. To get the references, the author index, and
the table of contents right, the following list of commands must be
executed:

latex apacite
bibtex apacite
latex apacite
latex apacite
makeindex -o apacite.and apacite.adx
latex apacite
latex apacite
latex apacite
makeindex -o apacite.and apacite.adx
latex apacite
latex apacite

So 11 runs are necessary in order to get everything OK. Apart from this,
the url package (url.sty) must be available in a place where TeX can
find it. This is not necessary for the apacite package itself, but
for the test examples from the APA manual that are used in the
document apacite.tex.

If you have a problem with the package/bibstyle that is not
described in the documentation, please locate it as
specifically as possible and E-Mail me a short but comprehensive
description of the problem and the pieces of the .tex and .bib
files that seem to be invoking the problem. If I have time,
I will have a look and answer (and, I hope, solve the problem).

Good luck with it!

Erik Meijer (e.meijer@eco.rug.nl)

