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    <p>I need a regular expression that matches APA format references.</p> <p>I currently have this:</p> <pre><code>/([A-Z][a-zA-Z\-\:\'\s\´]{3,}\, ([a-zA-Z]\.[\s|,|.]| &amp;?){1,}){1,}\(\d\d\d\d(, [A-Z][a-z\- ]*\d\d?|)\)\.[a-zA-Z\-\:\'\s]{3,}\.[a-zA-Z\-\s]+\,[ ]*\d\d(\(\S\))*,\d+.\d+./ </code></pre> <p>It only catches 10 and is fragile as hell.</p> <p>I only need journal articles - not books, not non-english articles.</p> <p>Any tips on how to make this regex more manageable appreciated.</p> <p>I built it using <a href="http://www.rubular.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Rubular</a></p> <p>This is the source data ( I know about the missing spaces and international character issues ):</p> <blockquote> <p>Bre´dart, S., Valentine, T., Calder, A., &amp; Gassi, L. (1995). An interactiveactivation model of face naming.Quarterly Journal of ExperimentalPsychology, 48(A),466–486.Bruce, V., &amp; Young, A. (1986). Understanding face recognition.BritishJournal of Psychology, 77,305–327.Burton, A. M., &amp; Bruce, V. (1992). I recognize your face but I can’tremember your name: A simple explanation?British Journal of Psy-chology, 83,45–60.Flude, B., Ellis, A., &amp; Kay, J. (1990). Face processing and name retrievalin an anomic aphasic: Names are stored separately from semanticinformation about people.Brain and Cognition, 11,60–72.Gratton, G., Coles, M. G. H., Sirevaag, E. J., Eriksen, C. W., &amp; Donchin,E. (1988). Pre- and poststimulus activation of response channels: Apsychophysiological analysis.Journal of Experimental Psychology: Hu-man Perception and Performance, 14,331–344.Hodges, J. R., &amp; Greene, J. D. W. (1998). Knowing about people andnaming them: Can Alzheimer’s disease patients do one without theother?Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 51(A),121–134.Huynh, H., &amp; Feldt, L. S. (1976). Estimation of the box correction fordegrees of freedom from sample data in the randomized block andsplit-plot designs.Journal of Educational Statistics, 1,69–82.Jasper, H. H. (1958). Report of the committee on methods of clinicalexamination in electroencephalography.Electroencephalography andClinical Neurophysiology, 10,370–375.Johnston, R. A., &amp; Bruce, V. (1990). Lost properties? Retrieval differencesbetween name codes and semantic codes for familiar people.Psycho-logical Research 52,62–67.Kornhuber, H. H., &amp; Deecke, L. (1965). Hirnpotentialaenderungen beiWillkuerbewegungen und passiven Bewegungen des Menschen: Be-reitschaftspotential und reafferente Potentiale [Brain potential changesfor voluntary and passive movements in humans: Readiness potentialand afferent potentials].Pfluegers Archiv fuer die Gesamte Physiologie,284,1–17.Kutas, M., &amp; Donchin, E. (1974, November 8). Studies of squeezing:Handedness, responding hand, response force, and asymmetry of readi-ness potential.Science, 186,545–547.Kutas, M., &amp; Donchin, E. (1980). Preparation to respond as manifested bymovement-related brain potentials.Brain Research, 202,95–115</p> </blockquote> <p>Examples of book references that mess up mletterle's answer</p> <pre><code>Lippold, O. C. J. (1967). Electromyography. In P. H. Venables &amp; I. Martin (Eds.), A manual of psychophysiological methods (pp. 245–298). Amsterdam: North-Holland. Low, K. A., &amp; Miller, J. (1999). The usefulness of partial information: Effects of go probability in the choice/nogo task. Psychophysiology, 36, 288–297. </code></pre>
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