Originally (years ago already), I reverse-engineered apalike from latex. It is quite possible I made a error there (or even that apalike had it wrong) but if no-one reports a bug it is not noticed. Also, I've had quite a few incorrect bug reports about the styles, so I am no longer all that eager to change them at a single bug report. Two questions: do you have a definitive source somewhere? and are there any other problems you see in bibl-apa.tex I see... well I'd be glad to go through whole APA style recommendation and test bibl-apa.tex, but I'm no expert and currently I am really busy for a few next weeks. I don't have a definitive source, but just about any source I have seen (including Wikipedia and my faculty rules) says bibl-apa.tex is wrong in that case. As I've started using ConTeXT just a few days ago I couldn't have seen any other problems so far but I will collect them if I find them and do a little more research on them. So for now don't bother, but sometime in future I will definitely contact you again if I have some more things to fix. Thanks, matej