Years before note with BibLaTeX?

Question

How do I order the outcome of BibLaTeX? I would like to have year before the note.
I currently just use

\usepackage{biblatex}  
 %preamble end

\printbibliography[title={Internet}, type=misc]

I have defined an internet source as

@misc{t100b,
  author = {Interbrand},
  title = {{Best Global Brands 2012}},
  howpublished = "\url{http://www.interbrand.com/en/best-global-brands/2012/Best-Global-Brands-2012-Brand-View.aspx}",
  year = {2012},
  note = "Visited the 19/12/2012"
}

in my internet.bib file.
It looks like

Interbrand. Best Global Brands 2012. http://www.interbrand.com/en/best-global-brands/ 2012/Best-Global-Brands-2012-Brand-View.aspx. Visited the 19/12/2012. 2012.

I would like it to be

Interbrand. Best Global Brands 2012. http://www.interbrand.com/en/best-global-brands/ 2012/Best-Global-Brands-2012-Brand-View.aspx. 2012. Visited the 19/12/2012.

Is it possible to get the year before the note? It is currently sorted by list af appearance, which I would like to continue using.

Answer 1

The easiest thing to do is to choose a citation style where this is already implemented. For example, the commonly used authoryear citation style:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{t100b,
  author = {Interbrand},
  title = {{Best Global Brands 2012}},
  howpublished = "\url{http://www.interbrand.com/en/best-global-brands/2012/Best-Global-Brands-2012-Brand-View.aspx}",
  year = {2012},
  note = "Visited the 19/12/2012"
}
\end{filecontents}

\usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true,backend=biber]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}
\cite{t100b}
\printbibliography[title={Internet}, type=misc]

\end{document}

Running pdflatex, biber, pdflatex will give you this output:

Which has the year before the note.

If you'd like a different style just look through your $TEXMFLOCAL/tex/latex/biblatex/bbx directory (or the parallel one on Win/Mac) to see what styles you have available there.

If you can't find anything that suits you, you might have to design your own style. Looking in standard.bbx will show you that misc is defined like this:

\DeclareBibliographyDriver{misc}{%
  \usebibmacro{bibindex}%
  \usebibmacro{begentry}%
  \usebibmacro{author/editor+others/translator+others}%
  \setunit{\labelnamepunct}\newblock
  \usebibmacro{title}%
  \newunit
  \printlist{language}%
  \newunit\newblock
  \usebibmacro{byauthor}%
  \newunit\newblock
  \usebibmacro{byeditor+others}%
  \newunit\newblock
  \printfield{howpublished}%
  \newunit\newblock
  \printfield{type}%
  \newunit
  \printfield{version}%
  \newunit
  \printfield{note}%
  \newunit\newblock
  \usebibmacro{organization+location+date}%
  \newunit\newblock
  \usebibmacro{doi+eprint+url}%
  \newunit\newblock
  \usebibmacro{addendum+pubstate}%
  \setunit{\bibpagerefpunct}\newblock
  \usebibmacro{pageref}%
  \newunit\newblock
  \usebibmacro{related}%
  \usebibmacro{finentry}}

copying this to a new .bbx file and switching around the fields should get you your desired output. Just don't forget to initiate the file with the following lines:

\ProvidesFile{my_style.bbx}% replace this with your style name
\RequireBibliographyStyle{standard}% replace this with the style you'd like to build upon

Answer 2

As I mentioned in my comment, since you are using biblatex, you have access to a much wider choice of entry type (the full list of which is in the biblatex documentation.

In your case, you are citing an online resource which using biblatex can be described using the @online entry.

biblatex also give you access to additional field which can be useful when describing online resources. The url and urldate are such entries. With the url entry, you do not need to enclose the the actual url inside the \url{} command as it will be done so automatically; and the urldate (which accepts the same date format as the date entry—namely something ISO formatted) will be formatted as "(visited on )".

using the bits of source you have provided, and putting these changes into place you get:

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage {biblatex}
\usepackage {filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@online{t100b,
  author = {Interbrand},
  title = {Best Global Brands 2012},
  url = {http://www.interbrand.com/en/best-global-brands/2012/Best-Global-Brands-2012-Brand-View.aspx},
  year = {2012},
  urldate = {2012-12-19},
}
\end{filecontents}
% use graphics and floating figures
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{document}

Some text with a citation \cite{t100b}

\printbibliography[title={Internet}, type=online]

\end{document}