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Biblatex-apa correctly handles a coment on an online periodical article or post, like example 10.1:18 in the Publication Manual or the newspaper comment example on the APA website. This also neatly covers the blog comment example on the website.
However, the website also specifies a forum comment example that has the title of the related work in italics instead of quoted. This (sort of) example is not mentioned in the Publication Manual and biblatex-apa currently hardcodes quoting the title of the referenced work in the related:commenton bibmacro at
It seems that the citetitle format uses the same general rule that APA uses to determine quoting or italicizing titles: standalone works get italics, works that are parts of a larger work get quotes. citetitle also has rules for different kinds of legal references, but those are messed up in APA anyways, so I can't imagine this would make comments on legal documents any more valid or invalid.
Biblatex-apa correctly handles a coment on an online periodical article or post, like example 10.1:18 in the Publication Manual or the newspaper comment example on the APA website. This also neatly covers the blog comment example on the website.
However, the website also specifies a forum comment example that has the title of the related work in italics instead of quoted. This (sort of) example is not mentioned in the Publication Manual and biblatex-apa currently hardcodes quoting the title of the referenced work in the
related:commenton
bibmacro atbiblatex-apa/tex/latex/biblatex-apa/bbx/apa.bbx
Lines 1315 to 1317 in cd2a723
I guess the formatting needs to change based on the formatting of the title of the referenced entry to match the forum comment example.
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