Template Options

Options are set in the metadata section at the top of the .qmd file. Quarto metadata uses YAML, a format that allows us to store data in a format that is easy to write and easy to read. In its simplest form, it has a key and a value:

key: value

If the value is simple, it does not need any quotes. If it has any characters that have special meaning in yaml (e.g., :), you will need to put the value in quotes.

title: "This title needs quotes: Because there is a colon in it."

Any optional key you do not use can be deleted or commented out. If you would prefer to keep the key visible but empty, you can make the value NULL with the tilde symbol ~ like so:

key: ~

Here is a minimal example of what the YAML metadata might look like:

---
title: "My Paper's Title: A Full Analysis of Everything"
shorttitle: "My Paper's Title"
author:
  - name: W. Joel Schneider
    corresponding: true
    orcid: 0000-0002-8393-5316
    email: schneider@temple.edu
    affiliations:
      - name: Temple University
        department: College of Education and Human Development
        address: 358 Ritter Hall
        city: Philadelphia
        region: PA
        postal-code: 19122-6091
abstract: "This is my abstract."
keywords: [keyword1, keyword2]
author-note:
  disclosures:
    conflict of interest: The author has no conflict of interest to declare.
bibliography: mybibfile.bib     
format:
  apaquarto-docx: default
  apaquarto-html: default
  apaquarto-pdf: default
  apaquarto-typst: default
---

General Options

Field	Explanation
title	Sets the title. Titles with no special characters can be raw text. title: My title If your title has a colon in it, it will need to be quoted: title: "My Title: My Subtitle" You can list your title and subtitle separately, and they will be combined with a colon in the document: title: My Title subtitle: My Subtitle
shorttitle	A short version of the title that appears in the running header for .pdf and .docx formats. If omitted or null (~), the running header will take its value from the title field (and will omit the subtitle).
abstract	The abstract paragraph. If the abstract is a single paragraph, put it on a single line like most of the other fields: abstract: This is a single-paragraph abstract. If the abstract has multiple paragraphs, separate them like so: abstract: | | This is the first paragraph. | This is the second paragraph. | This the third paragraph.
keywords	A list of topics your paper relates to. Can be single words or short phrases. There are two ways to format key words. Comma-separated list with square brackets: keywords: [First keyword, Second keyword, Third keyword] Multiline list with indented hyphens : keywords: - First keyword - Second keyword - Third keyword
floatsintext	Specifies where floats (i.e., figures and tables) appear. If true, figures and tables will be intermingled in text. If false, figures and tables will appear at the end of the document. If omitted, defaults to false. The floatsintext field does not apply when a .pdf output is in journal mode.
numbered-lines	Numbered lines (.pdf and .docx only) Default: false
bibliography	File(s) with references. If you have a single file, you can list it like so: bibliography: mybibliography.bib If you have multiple files, you can make an array: bibliography: [mybibliography.bib, myotherbibliography.bib]
mask	For anonymous peer review, removes identifying information: author names, author affiliations, author notes, correspondence information, and references listed in the masked-citations field. If true, identifying information is removed. If false or omitted, all information is left as is.
masked-citations	A list of citation keys that should be masked if the mask field is true. For example: mask: true masked-citations: - mypublication2020 - mypublication2024 The citation keys should be as they appear in the bibliography file(s).
suppress-title-page	Suppress the title page if true
meta-analysis	By default, all studies listed in the nocite field will be marked with asterisks in the References section. If this behavior is unwanted, set meta-analysis to false.
no-ampersand-parenthetical	APA style uses ampersands in parenthetical citations (e.g., Schneider & McGrew, 2018) but not in narrative (i.e., in-text) citations: Schneider and McGrew (2018). You can replace ampersands with “and” in parenthetical citations (e.g., Schneider and McGrew, 2018) by setting the no-ampersand-parenthetical option to true. A different replacement word other than “and” can be set in the citation-last-author-separator field in the language options.

Authors

The apaquarto uses the standard Quarto schema for authors. It has a lot of options, some of which are not needed for the apaquarto extension (e.g., fax).

The author field contains author names, author affiliations, and author roles. Where possible, specify each author’s orcid for easy, unambiguous identification.

The corresponding author is specified by setting the author’s corresponding field to true (i.e., corresponding: true). This author needs to list an email and list a mailing address in the affiliation data. Only one author can be the corresponding author. Other authors do not need to list their addresses.

author:
  - name: W. Joel Schneider
    corresponding: true
    orcid: 0000-0002-8393-5316
    email: schneider@temple.edu
    affiliations:
      - name: Temple University
        department: College of Education and Human Development
        address: 1301 Cecil B. Moore Ave.
        city: Philadelphia
        region: PA
        postal-code: 19122-6091
    role:
      - writing
      - conceptualization
  - name: Fulano Zutano Mengano
    affiliations: Universidad de Dondequiera
    orcid: 0000-0000-0000-0001
    role:
      - formal anlaysis
      - visualization
      - editin
  - name: Thomas Richard Harris
    affiliations: 
      - name: Generic State University
        department: Department of Scholarly Studies
    orcid: 0000-0000-0000-0002
    role:
      - editing
      - funding acquistion
  - name: Wut C. Whosis
    affiliations: Whatchama College
    orcid: 0000-0000-0000-0003
    role:
      - software
      - methodology
      - editing

Affiliations

The apaquarto extenstion uses the standard Quarto schema for affiliations.

Field	Explanation
id	A unique identifier for the affiliation. The id can be useful for specifying an affiliation shared by multiple authors: author: - name: William Joel Schneider affiliations: - name: Temple University department: College of Education and Human Development address: 1301 Cecil B. Moore Ave. city: Philadelphia region: PA postal-code: 19122-6091 id: temple - name: Renée M. Tobin affiliations: - ref: temple
name	The name of the organization. author: - name: Fred Jones affiliation: - name: Generic State Univeristy If the author is unaffiliated, list the author’s city and region/state instead: author: - name: Fred Jones affiliation: - city: San Francisco region: CA
department	A specific division within the organization.
group	A subdivision within the department author: - name: Fred Jones affiliation: - name: Generic State Univeristy department: Department of Psychology group: Counseling Psychology
address	The street address
city	City
region	The region, state, or province. You may specify state instead, if you prefer.
country	Country
postal-code	Postal code (zip code in the U.S.)

Multiple Affiliations

If an author has more than one affiliation:

author:
  - name: William Joel Schneider
    affiliations:
      - name: Temple University
        department: College of Education and Human Development
        address: 1301 Cecil B. Moore Ave.
        city: Philadelphia
        region: PA
        postal-code: 19122-6091
      - name: My Second Affiliation

Shared Affiliations

If two authors have the same affiliation, you can type the same affiliation twice. If you do this, make sure the affiliations are EXACTLY the same in every detail. Otherwise they will be listed as different. To make sure they are listed as the same affiliation, it is safer to use a reference id to make sure that there are no accidental differences that creep in to the editing process. In this example, the affiliation information was entered once, and the id was specified. For the second author with the same affiliation, the ref field is used to reference the previously specified id.

author:
  - name: William Joel Schneider
    affiliations:
      - name: Temple University
        department: College of Education and Human Development
        address: 1301 Cecil B. Moore Ave.
        city: Philadelphia
        region: PA
        postal-code: 19122-6091
        id: temple
  - name: Renée M. Tobin
    affiliations:
      - ref: temple

Listing Authors and Affiliations Separately

If there are a lot of authors with shared affiliations, it might be easier to list the affiliations separately and specify each affiliation’s id, which can be looked up with the ref field:

author: 
  - name: Fred Jones
    affiliation: 
      - ref: temple
      - ref: tamu
  - name: Wanda James
    affiliation:
      - ref: temple
      - ref: ucb
affiliations:
  - id: temple
    name: Temple University
  - id: tamu
    name: "Texas A&M University"
  - id: ucb
    name: University of California, Berkeley

Author Roles

APA Style encourages but does not require papers with multiple authors to describe author roles using the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT). There are 14 contributor roles:

Role	Description
conceptualization	Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
data curation	Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.
formal analysis	Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyse or synthesize study data.
funding acquisition	Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.
investigation	Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.
methodology	Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
project administration	Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.
resources	Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.
software	Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
supervision	Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.
validation	Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.
visualization	Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.
writing	Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).
editing	reparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision – including pre- or post-publication stages.

It is possible to list the roles for each author:

author: 
  - name: Fred Jones
    role: 
      - conceptualization
      - funding acquisition
      - writing
  - name: Wanda James
    role:
      - conceptualization
      - formal analysis
      - visualization
      - editing

When 2 or more authors have the same role, one may specify the degree of contribution (lead, equal, supporting):

author: 
  - name: Fred Jones
    role: 
      - conceptualization: lead
      - visualization: supporting
      - investigation: equal
      - funding acquisition
      - writing
  - name: Wanda James
    role:
      - conceptualization: supporting
      - visualization: lead
      - investigation: equal
      - formal analysis
      - editing

Author Notes

The first paragraph of the Author Note will be populated with all the ORCID IDs that have been specified.

The second paragraph consists of status changes:

Field	Explanation
affiliation-change	Describe author affiliation changes. Example: author-note: status-changes: affiliation-change: Fred Jones is now at Generic State University
deceased	Disclose names of authors who are now deceased. Example: author-note: status-changes: deceased: Fred Jones is deceased.

The third paragraph consists of study details and author disclosures:

Field	Explanation
study-registration	Describe where the study was registered. Example: author-note: disclosures: study-registration: "This study was registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (Identifier NTC998877)."
data-sharing	Data/materials that have been shared Example: author-note: disclosures: data-sharing: "Data from this study can be accessed at https://academicdata.org/jones2024."
related-report	Acknowledge and cite data/materials that were used previously Example: author-note: disclosures: related-report: "This article is based on the dissertation completed by Graham (2018)"
conflict-of-interest	Disclose author conflicts of interest Example: author-note: disclosures: conflict-of-interest: "Fred Jones has been a paid consultant for Corporation X, which funded this study."
financial-support	Acknowledge funding sources Example: author-note: disclosures: financial-support: "This study was supported by Grant 123 from Academic Funders United."
gratitude	Authors can express gratitude. Example: author-note: disclosures: gratitude: "The authors are grateful to Sidney Fiero for thoughtful comments on an early draft of this paper."
authorship-agreements	Authors can disclose any agreements they entered into regarding the paper. Example: author-note: disclosures: authorship-agreements: "Because the authors are equal contributors, order of authorship was determined by a fair coin toss."

The fourth paragraph of the Author Note consists of the correspondence information. It will created automatically from the contact information from the author marked as the corresponding author. If you wish to override this paragraph with one entirely of your own, you can set it via the correspondence-note subfield in the author-note field.

author-note:
  correspondence-note: This will override the correspondence note that would otherwise be generated.

Options for .docx and typst

Field	Explanation
blank-lines-above-title	Number of blank lines above the title. If omitted, defaults to 2 double-spaced lines. APA style requests that you put your title 3 to 4 lines (i.e., 1.5 to 2 double-spaced lines) down from the top of the title page.
blank-lines-above-author-note	Number of double-spaced lines between author affiliations and author note. APA style wants the note to start around the middle of the page. You can play with the number. It defaults to 2 if omitted.

Options for .pdf

All of the .pdf-specfic options for apaquarto come directly from the apa7 \(\LaTeX\) package. Consult the apa7 package documentation for greater detail.

Field	Explanation
documentmode	Alter the overall style of the document. Options incluce: man Manuscript: Similar to .docx format jou Journal: A polished two-column format similar to many APA journals. doc Document: Similar to default \(\LaTeX\) articles. stu Student: Formatted for student papers
course professor duedate	Fields that are used only for student papers (stu mode). Example: course: Introduction to Statistics (EDUC 5101) professor: W. Joel Schneider duedate: 12/22/2024
journal volume copyrightnotice copyrightext	Fields that are used only for Journal (jou) mode. Example: journal: Psychological Review volume: 2024, Vol. 131, No. 2, 10--60 copyrightnotice: 2024 copyrightext: All rights reserved
fontsize	Size of font. Options include 10pt, 11pt, and 12pt
a4paper	If true, uses a4 paper size instead of 8.5 by 11 in. letter size.
donotrepeattitle	If true, suppresses title in the first page of text.
draftfirst	If true, puts draft watermark on first page.
draftall	If true, puts draft watermark on all pages.
nocorrespondence	If true, hides correspondence text

Options for .html

With one exeception, everything that works for .docx should work for .html. For .html, there is no benefit to having line numbers in the text because the text wrapping differs depending on the device and size of the window the document is being viewed.

Suppress Elements

Any of the elements below can be selectively suppressed from the document.

Field	Explanation
suppress-title-page: true	Suppress the entire title page
suppress-title: true	Suppress the title on the title page
suppress-short-title: true	Suppress the short title in the running header
suppress-author: true	Suppresses the author names below the title. Does not suppress author names in the author note.
suppress-affiliation: true	Suppress affiliations below the author names. Does not suppress the affiliation in the correspondence note.
suppress-author-note: true	Suppress the entire author note
suppress-orcid: true	Suppress the author ORCID numbers
suppress-status-change-paragraph: true	Suppress the paragraph about status changes (affiliation changes and deceased authors)
suppress-disclosures-paragraph: true	Suppress the paragraph about disclosures (study registration, data sharing, related reports, conflicts of interest, financial support, statements of gratitude, and authorship agreements)
suppress-credit-statement: true	Suppress the credit statement
suppress-corresponding-paragraph: true	Suppress the entire correspondence paragraph
suppress-corresponding-group: true	Suppress the group in the correspondence address
suppress-corresponding-department: true	Suppress the department in the correspondence address
suppress-corresponding-address: true	Suppress the street address in the correspondence address
suppress-corresponding-city: true	Suppress the city in the correspondence address
suppress-corresponding-region: true	Suppress the region/state in the correspondence address
suppress-corresponding-postal-code: true	Suppress the postal code in the correspondence address
suppress-corresponding-email: true	Suppress the email address in the correspondence address
suppress-abstract: true	Suppress the abstract. In the .pdf document, this will also suppress the keywords.
suppress-keywords: true	Suppress the keywords below the abstract
suppress-title-introduction: true	Suppress the title in the introduction

Language Options

You can alter the names of Abstract, Figures, Tables, and References by setting the lang field to one of these languages:

Code	Language
en	English
zh	Chinese
es	Spanish
fr	French
ja	Japanese
de	German
pt	Portuguese
ru	Russian
cs	Czech
fi	Finnish
nl	Dutch
it	Italian
pl	Polish
ko	Korean

However, there are a few options that are specific to apaquarto and thus were not anticipated by Quarto.

Field	Explanation	Default
citation-last-author-separator	APA-style in-text citations with multiple authors are separated by commas with the appropriate translation of the word and before the last author.	and
citation-masked-author	The phrase to replace author names in masked citations.	Masked Citation
citation-masked-date	The abbreviated translation for “no date” in masked citations	n.d.
title-block-author-note	The heading of the author note	Author Note
title-block-correspondence-note	The phrase introducing the correspondence note.	Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to
title-block-role-introduction	The phrase introducing the author roles.	Author roles were classified using the Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT; https://credit.niso.org/) as follows:
references-meta-analysis	The sentence explaining that citations marked with an asterisk were studies in the meta-analysis.	References marked with an asterisk indicate studies included in the meta-analysis.

All these options must be listed under the language field . For example, if we set the lang field to en (Spanish), the remaining options can also be set:

lang: es
language: 
  citation-last-author-separator: "y"
  citation-masked-author: "Cita Enmascarada"
  citation-masked-title: "Título Enmascarado"
  citation-masked-date: "n.f."
  title-block-author-note: "Nota de Autores"
  title-block-correspondence-note: "La correspondencia relativa a este artículo debe dirigirse a"
  title-block-role-introduction: "Los roles de autor se clasificaron utilizando la taxonomía de roles de colaborador (CRediT; https://credit.niso.org/) de la siguiente manera:"
  references-meta-analysis: "Las referencias marcadas con un asterisco indican estudios incluidos en el metanálisis."

In addition, many terms that are translated automatically can be overridden. The full list is here. For example, if I wanted “Figure” in figure captions to be “Plot” instead, I would specify the change like so:

language: 
  crossref-fig-title: "Plot"

Here are the language terms most likely to be used in apaquarto:

Field: English Default	Explanation
section-title-abstract: Abstract	Abtract title
section-title-references: References	References title
title-block-keywords: Keywords	Keywords
crossref-fig-title: Figure	Figure title prefix
crossref-tbl-title: Table	Table title prefix
crossref-apx-prefix: Appendix	Appendix title prefix
crossref-eq-prefix: Equation	Equation title prefix