I've just started using some apa packages to write papers too. After a quick look at several of them, I've only tried apa.cls with apacite.sty (needed by apa.cls) it is great. Both documentations are short but well done. I've just experienced a problem with my tables when I want to format the paper with a 'printed journal appearance' but it is perfect in the manuscript mode (which is what I really need anyway). The apacite bib style is great too. Everything seems to be possible with it.

I'm sorry I cannot give you any advice about the others but apa.cls is really well done and uses apacite whereas some others try to implement their own bib style, which is probably not usefull anymore regarding the quality of apacite.

Olivier Crouzet Sep 20 2001

> I'm looking forward to starting to work with apa.cls. Is there a sample
> paper or article included with apa.cls? I like to have an example to look

There is an example.tex in the distribution which is not meant to be compiled with LaTeX because it has mixed instructions and examples (so what you get is mainly error messages). Just read through and "steal" any parts of code that look relevant to your purposes.

Athanassios Protopapas Sep 28 2001