Citing RFCs with biblatex

Question

I want to cite RFCs in the format [RFCxxxx] instead of using the author's initials and the year it was published. Currently I am using the alphabetic style that comes with biblatex. So far, I tried using the \DeclareCiteCommand command to use the key field in the .bib file, but that does not seem to work. I would really appreciate any ideas as how to solve this problem.

Answer 1

You can use the shorthand field to override the label which is automatically generated by the alphabetic style:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[style=alphabetic]{biblatex}

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{A01,
  author = {Author, A.},
  year = {2001},
  title = {Alpha},
}
@report{Cro69,
  shorthand = {RFC0001},
  author = {Crocker, S.},
  year = {1969},
  month = {4},
  title = {Host Software},
  note = {RFC 1},
}
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}

Some text \autocite{A01,Cro69}.

\printbibliography

\end{document}