I suggest you follow the example of the knuth:ct:_
works in biblatex-examples.bib
You would then use maintitle
instead of series
and volume
in lieu of number
.
Then add a sortyear
field with content <year>-<volume>
and a sorttitle
with content <maintitle> <volume>
. The former is so name-year sort schemes do the right thing, the latter is for name-title schemes.
@book{jT77a,
author = {John R. R. Tolkien},
maintitle = {Der Herr der Ringe},
volume = {1},
title = {Die Gefährten},
year = {1977},
publisher = {Klett-Cotta},
location = {Stuttgart},
sorttitle = {Der Herr der Ringe 1},
sortyear = {1977-1},
}
@book{jT77b,
author = {John R. R. Tolkien},
maintitle = {Der Herr der Ringe},
volume = {2},
title = {Die zwei Türme},
year = {1977},
publisher = {Klett-Cotta},
location = {Stuttgart},
sorttitle = {Der Herr der Ringe 2},
sortyear = {1977-2},
}
@book{jT77,
author = {John R. R. Tolkien},
maintitle = {Der Herr der Ringe},
volume = {3},
title = {Die Rückkehr des Königs},
year = {1977},
publisher = {Klett-Cotta},
location = {Stuttgart},
sorttitle = {Der Herr der Ringe 3},
sortyear = {1977-3},
}
MWE
\documentclass[ngerman]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\usepackage[style=authortitle-ibid]{biblatex}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@book{jT77a,
author = {John R. R. Tolkien},
maintitle = {Der Herr der Ringe},
volume = {1},
title = {Die Gefährten},
year = {1977},
publisher = {Klett-Cotta},
location = {Stuttgart},
sorttitle = {Der Herr der Ringe 1},
sortyear = {1977-1},
}
@book{jT77b,
author = {John R. R. Tolkien},
maintitle = {Der Herr der Ringe},
volume = {2},
title = {Die zwei Türme},
year = {1977},
publisher = {Klett-Cotta},
location = {Stuttgart},
sorttitle = {Der Herr der Ringe 2},
sortyear = {1977-2},
}
@book{jT77,
author = {John R. R. Tolkien},
maintitle = {Der Herr der Ringe},
volume = {3},
title = {Die Rückkehr des Königs},
year = {1977},
publisher = {Klett-Cotta},
location = {Stuttgart},
sorttitle = {Der Herr der Ringe 3},
sortyear = {1977-3},
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\renewrobustcmd*{\bibnamedelimb}{\addnbspace}
\begin{document}
\nocite{*}
\printbibliography
\end{document}
gives
Tolkien, John R. R. Der Herr der Ringe. Bd. 1: Die Gefährten. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1977.
— Der Herr der Ringe. Bd. 2: Die zwei Türme. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1977.
— Der Herr der Ringe. Bd. 3: Die Rückkehr des Königs. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1977.