bookdown-apa

This repo provides an APA-friendly version of the thesisdown/bookdown/markdown template. Primarily, this template is suited for psychology thesis formatting (since psychologists use the APA style).

The examples and some some formatting are suited to the German language.

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!EARLY DEVELOPMENT!

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Dependencies

This work builds heavily on the following open access sources (amongst others):

1 ClassicThesis

2 BookdownPlus

3 Bookdown

4 RMarkdown

5 Pandoc

6 R

7 TeX, I recommend TinyTex

Visuals

Here are some screenshots for illustration purposes.

A rendered PDF example can be found here.

Installation

Make sure that all dependencies are installed (see above), in recent versions. Download or clone this repo.

Getting started

Open the RProj-File (using RStudio) or, alternatively, open index.Rmd. Use the following files:

• index.Rmd controls some meta data such as title, author, school name, etc.
• bookdown.yml control the chapter files. Add your chapter files there.
• The chapters of the thesis/report stat with two digits such as 00-abstract.Rmd and so on. Populate the chapter files (or create new ones) to your liking.
• use bib/bib.bib as your Bib(La)tex file.
• Some output options are controlled by _output.yml.
• Render the PDF file using the "knit" button or the R file "RENDER-BOOK.RMD".

The general makeup and workflow is based on bookdown, go there for a startup tutorial.

Stylesheets used

The main stylesheet used is ClassicThesis, but I've changed some details in order to fit it to APA wishes, and to German text formatting.

The bookdown infrastructure is used, which in turn builds on (R)Markdown including knitr, and Pandoc. And the unnamed god, and many more.