Display collaboration with biblatex

Question

I would like to display the "collaboration" field of biblatex when present, for example:

@article{Aad2011150,
title = "TITLE",
author= {Aad, Georges and others},
collaboration = {ATLAS}
...
}

is shown as "G. Aad and others, TITLE, ...". I would like to have "G. Add and others (ATLAS collaboration), TITLE ..."

For other cases when the author is not present I would like to have: "ATLAS collaboration, TITLE ..."

is it possible? I'm using

\usepackage[backend=bibtex, style=numeric-comp,backref, sorting=none, firstinits=true]{biblatex}

I cannot use biber.

Answer 1

Since you can't use biber, no new fields such as collaboration can be introduced. For your entry example it seems that the group of physicists working on ATLAS actually go by the name "ATLAS collaboration". When they publish under this institutional name, wrap it in braces in the author list:

author = {{ATLAS collaboration}},

For articles where members of the group publish under their individual names, you can identify them as part of the ATLAS collaboration using the existing authortype field:

authortype = {ATLAS collaboration},

Here's an example.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[backend=bibtex,maxnames=1]{biblatex}

\DefineBibliographyStrings{english}{%
  andothers = {and others}}

% adapted from biblatex.def
\renewbibmacro*{author}{%
  \ifboolexpr{ test {\ifuseauthor} and not test {\ifnameundef{author}} }
    {\printnames{author}%
     \iffieldundef{authortype}
       {}
       {\setunit{\addspace}%
        \usebibmacro{authorstrg}}}
    {}}

\DeclareFieldFormat{authortype}{\mkbibparens{#1}}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{key1,
  author = {Aad, Georges and Brown, Bob and Doe, John},
  authortype = {ATLAS collaboration},
  title = {Authors from institution},
  journal = {Journal name},
  year = {1994}}
@book{key2,
  author = {{ATLAS collaboration}},
  title = {Institutional author},
  year = {1980}}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}
\textcite{key1} showed that... \textcite{key2} showed that...
\printbibliography
\end{document}

Answer 2

arXiv has provided some bibliography style files that accomodate e-print fields and collaboration fields: http://arxiv.org/hypertex/bibstyles/