New on CTAN: biblatex-apa-zh
Date: August 15, 2026 6:48:23 PM CEST
Che Cheng submitted the
biblatex-apa-zh
package.
Version: 0.2.0 2026-08-15
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: APA 7 citation rendering for Traditional Chinese prose
Announcement text:
biblatex-apa-zh adapts APA 7 citation rendering to Traditional Chinese prose. It is a companion package for biblatex-apa, which ships localisation files for more than twenty languages, but none for Chinese. The package separates two things that are easy to conflate. The language of the running text determines citation punctuation, and is set by a package option: Chinese prose takes full-width parentheses and commas. The language of each cited work determines its name strings and the punctuation of its bibliography entry, and is read from the langid field of that entry, so a single reference list may mix Chinese and Western works. Unlike the autolang mechanism of biblatex, it does not require babel or polyglossia, which makes it usable in the common xeCJK setup. The strings and bibliography punctuation follow the traditional Chinese academic convention as used in Taiwan. Simplified Chinese conventions differ and are not covered by this release. The package ships a test suite that asserts on the rendered output and exits non-zero on any mismatch.
This package is located at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-apa-zh More information is at https://ctan.org/pkg/biblatex-apa-zh
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Erik Braun CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs .
biblatex-apa-zh adapts APA 7 citation rendering to Traditional Chinese prose. It is a companion package for biblatex-apa, which ships localisation files for more than twenty languages, but none for Chinese. The package separates two things that are easy to conflate. The language of the running text determines citation punctuation, and is set by a package option: Chinese prose takes full-width parentheses and commas. The language of each cited work determines its name strings and the punctuation of its bibliography entry, and is read from the langid field of that entry, so a single reference list may mix Chinese and Western works. Unlike the autolang mechanism of biblatex, it does not require babel or polyglossia, which makes it usable in the common xeCJK setup. The strings and bibliography punctuation follow the traditional Chinese academic convention as used in Taiwan. Simplified Chinese conventions differ and are not covered by this release. The package ships a test suite that asserts on the rendered output and exits non-zero on any mismatch.
This package is located at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-apa-zh More information is at https://ctan.org/pkg/biblatex-apa-zh
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Erik Braun CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs .
biblatex-apa-zh – APA 7 citation rendering for Traditional Chinese prose
This package extends biblatex-apa with support for Traditional Chinese citation and bibliography formatting according to APA 7.
The package provides:
- full-width Chinese punctuation for citations in Traditional Chinese text;
- entry-specific name strings and bibliography punctuation based on the langid field;
- mixed Chinese and Western entries within a single bibliography;
- separate control of the language of citation text and the language of individual bibliography entries;
- operation without babel or polyglossia, making it suitable for xeCJK documents.
The provided formatting follows Traditional Chinese academic conventions used in Taiwan. Simplified Chinese conventions are not supported.
A test suite for checking the rendered output is included.
| Package | biblatex-apa-zh |
| Version | 0.2.0 2026-08-15 |
| Copyright | 2026 Che Cheng |
| Maintainer | Che Cheng |