biblatex is ignoring maxcitenames
The default in biblatex
is to use the uniquelist
option. APA style also uses this. This option dynamically changes the maxnames
/minnames
settings in order to make citations unique. This is required by APA. APA style also applies APA rules regarding citation list truncation after the first cite within a paragraph. You are probably noticing the effects of these settings. APA style with maxnames=2
is essentially not APA style – these settings are partly hard-coded into the style as a result ...
The solution I found was to replace citestyle=apa
with citestyle=authoryear
. This fixes the problem.