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I'm writing a scientific manuscript in RMarkdown using the papaja package, which enables me to report my statistics beautifully. However, the journal now requires me to submit a Word document with number-letter referencing. Is it possible to change the referencing style to a number-letter style in Papaja?

I tried opening the LaTeX output from papaja, but it has the citations set out in the text in APA format (e.g. "Apthorp, Bolbecker, Bartolomeo, O'Donnell, \& Hetrick, 2018"), which is not useful to me.

Here's the code from the top of the manuscript: 

bibliography      : ["PD_sway-1.bib"]

floatsintext      : no
figurelist        : no
tablelist         : no
footnotelist      : no
linenumbers       : yes
mask              : no
draft             : no

documentclass     : "apa6"
classoption       : "man"
output            : papaja::apa6_pdf

It would be great if I could get a Word document with number-letter referencing that I could then edit, but a LaTeX file or PDF with the correct citation format would be fine too.

Michael Harper
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The references are already typed out in APA style in the LaTeX document because they are handled by pandoc-citeproc rather than LaTeX. This has the advantage that the automatic reference formatting also works when you output your document in Word format. To get a Word document all you need to do is change the output line in the YAML front matter:

output: papaja::apa6_docx

Note that the formatting of Word documents that pandoc supports is somewhat limited and you may have to fix some things manually. From the corresponding section in the papaja manual:

More over, rendered documents in DOCX format require some manual work before they fully comply with APA guidelines. We, therefore, provide the following checklist of necessary changes:

Always,

  1. add a header line with running head and page number

If necessary,

  1. position author note at the bottom of page 1
  2. move figures and tables to the end of the manuscript
  3. add colon to level 3-headings
  4. in figure captions,
    • add a colon following the figure numbers and italicize
      (e.g. "Figure 1. This is a caption.")
  5. in tables,
    • add horizontal rules above the first and below the last row
    • add midrules

Changing the citation style works just as it does in any R Markdown document. The work-in-progress papaja manual has a section on this:

Other styles can be set in the YAML front matter by specifying a CSL, or Citations Style Language, file. You can use either one of the large number of existing CSL files, customize an existing CSL file, or create a new one entirely.

To change the citation style, download the CSL file and add the following to the YAML front matter:

csl: "path/to/mystyle.csl"

I'm not sure what style the journal requires but most likely a corresponding CSL file already exists.

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