{biblatex} is a complete reimplementation of the bibliographic facilities provided by LaTeX. It has its own backend {biber} which can be used instead of {bibtex} and which supports, e.g., full {unicode}, highly customisable sorting, data source filtering, and customisable field inheritance.
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Biblatex supercite with square brackets and grouped
I found this code here:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\DeclareCiteCommand{\supercite}[\mkbibsuperscript]
{\iffieldundef{prenote}
{}
{\BibliographyWarning{Ignoring ...
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biblatex-apa: Author's first name is repeated in brackets
I am using the biblatex-apa package together with the latest biber and biblatex versions (... I think). The issue is, that sometimes the author's first name, or its abbreviation, is repeated in square ...
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Biblatex \textcite using a superscript reference number
I would like to typeset the citation number produced by \textcite as a superscript number, rather than enclosed by brackets, in line with the rest of my document. Is it possible to typeset "Author ^1" ...
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Converting from biblatex to BibTeX format using biber
I wish to use biblatex+biber, in large part because of its data format (xdata!), but often need to use .bst-based bibliography styles. I am aware that biber --tool allows conversion of .bib-files. ...
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Unwanted extra spaces are included before and after backslashes in biblatex URL
I have a biblatex reference with a URL field. However, every backslash is surrounded by spaces.
I am using
\usepackage[sorting=nyt, citestyle=authoryear, bibstyle=authoryear, isbn=false, ...
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Biblatex: Can We Delete `\autocite` From Biblatex?
Why do we have two different commands for citing? One when citing exactly one source (\autocite) and another one that is conceived to be used when citing more than one source (\autocites)?
If you ...
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biblatex is ignoring maxcitenames
I am using the following line in my document:
\usepackage[citestyle=apa,maxcitenames=2,bibstyle=authoryear,doi=true,url=true]{biblatex}
However, biblatex ignores maxcitenames, and prints out every ...
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biblatex - volume and issue in words and with comma in front of them
So the current product looks like this:
Gillies, A. (1933), “Herder and the Preparation of Goethe’s Idea of World Literature”,
in: Publications of the English Goethe Society 9 (2), pp. 46–67.
...
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Tweaking of Biblatex style to show emphasized species name
Using the Biblatex style from here and tweaking some other things I had some success but not for this thing in bibliography; I have a repeated species name, which is Helicobacter pylori, how to write ...
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Book reviews entry in biblatex-chicago
I am using the review entry type in biblatex-chicago, and neither the biblatex-chicago nor the biblatex documentation have been helpful.
The result I'd like to obtain is something at least close to ...
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Biblatex apa-style citation link issue
The biblatex apa-citation only link the year other than author-year together.
apa-style:
while the citation of a typical journal paper looks like this:
So how to make the default apa-style ...
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how to \cite without an entry in the bibliography?
Even though it may sound weird: is it possible to have a \cite{key}-command that cites a bibliographic item without including that item in the bibliography?
As it were, I am looking for the opposite ...
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Reference a book without authors with a shortened title (biblatex)
I have a book without (known) authors. Its title is very long, so I'd like to shorten it in citations, but not in the bibliography. I've tried to use SHORTTITLE, but then that shortened title also ...
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Using BibTool with BibLaTeX, again
I've installed BibTool and it seems to work for e.g. printing a formatted bibliography to the terminal. I'm trying to extract a bibliography from an .aux file from a document compiled with BibLaTeX. ...
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Trying to use biblatex-historian with a BibTeX backend and XeLaTeX
I'm currently working with a large bibliography that I've assembled for my PhD studies that I've edited in several different programs (KBibTeX, JabRef, and ebib from emacs primarily) and that was ...
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biblatex - Order last-first for the names of multiple editors?
For all bibliography items containing multiple editors, I must print the same order of names for multiple editors as I have them for multiple authors. For the authors, I got it to work (see here), but ...
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biblatex - How to get “editor” in parentheses behind the name? (authoryear)
I must have the editor(s) in parentheses for source-types such as collections, proceedings and others. The relevant part of the bibliography item currently looks like
Ed. by F. Seibt
but must be
...
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biblatex - year in parentheses for references with authoryear? [duplicate]
According to guidelines, besides printing the year in parentheses in the bibliography (which is working by default), I must have the year in parentheses for the references. Also, I have to use ...
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biblatex - postcite as subscript
I've defined the command \newcommand{\mycite}[2][]{\autocite{#2} #1} which allows me to combine a superscripted citation with a parenthetical page reference:
Cf. Sloterdijk1 (pp. 84–85). ✓
This ...
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biblatex driver for journals without real page numbers
Some open access journals like JHEP don't have a real page number, altough they export one, see:
http://iopscience.iop.org/1126-6708/2001/01/010/
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[]{biblatex}
...
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Some biblatex labels do not appear depending on their position [closed]
I'm using BibLaTex with Biber to generate my bibliography.
Unfortunatelly, I'm struggling with a very strange behaviour concerning the displaying of the blibliography labels: Some labels are not ...
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biblatex: move backrefpages to after the period
I've used some tips about how to toy with the format of backrefs in biblatex, and I'm seeing that the formatting is quite flexible. In the screenshot below, I've put the backref into a box. That's ...
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Running BibLatex (Backend=Biber) in Texmaker
I have quite an interesting problem. After backup of my system (Windwos 7 x86) I have troubles running biblatex in general. I solved the problem partially.
I have MikTex 2.9 installed and using ...
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List edition only if higher than 1st and location behind publisher
I am trying to customize biblatex to the needs of the requirements. At this point I am working on the book-class.
The status quo is based on the MWE below. As I indicated in the title, I would like ...
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Including an asterisk in a reference item number [duplicate]
How do I add a mark (asterisk/dagger) to a particular bib entry, based on a keyword? For example consider the bib file:
@article{Doe2012a,
author = {J. Doe},
title = {Lorem Ipsum -- Part ...
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How do I remove parentheses around a year in the references using biblatex? [duplicate]
I have an issue whereby I would like to get the parentheses removed around the year in the following reference, and a period added after the author list.
For example, I would like to change:
"Ambler, ...
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Trying to suppress URLs with BibLaTeX, using a simple person's method
Based on other questions here, I'm trying to create an annotated bibliography, using \fullcite, where I want to suppress all URLs.
I'm using what appears to be a simple solution, which works for a ...
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Removing Section Name in Heading of Reference Page
I am using the \pagestyle{myheadings} command to put page numbers on my document which does not include the Section Name in the heading.
However, that does not seem to work on the References page of ...
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unpleasent character protrusion using microtype, biblatex and block=nbpar
Using microtype together with biblatex's entrysets and block=nbpar options leads to an unpleasent result. The left bracket of (a) is moved too much to the right. (b) and (c) are less affected by the ...
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Insert newline before pages, no double newline for inbook
Following up on,
How to make pagination of inbook lowercase. How do I insert a newline before the pages field?
I tried
\DeclareFieldFormat{pages}{\newline\mkpageprefix[pagination]{#1}}
but for ...
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How to make pagination of inbook lowercase
A page range given in @inbook results in "Pp." (uppercase) compared to "pp." (lowercase) for @article when using block=npar. What has to be done to have it in lowercase as well?
...
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Indentation of shorthands list
A subdivision of my of my references is a shorthands list. In order to get it to look like the other subdivision, a regular authoryear-ibid bibliography, I've added this to the preamble:
...
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How to switch citation style from author-year to author-number using biblatex?
Have been using biblatex apa-style of author-year citation for a while, now i want to change the style to author-number style:
For example: as with \cite{Loh:1992}
Before:
...
Loh (1992)
...
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free plagiate finder software online or offline with local library? [closed]
I am not sure if this is the right stack page to post this question to.
Since i assume here are many scientific writers i posted the question here.
I am searching for a free plagiarism finder ...
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BibLatex Cite Primary Source Within Book
How do I cite a Primary Source within a secondary source?
For example, in Eyewitness to Irish History, a section of the Primary Source The Mystery of the Casement Ship, the particular section being a ...
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Best practice: define BibLateX/BibTeX entry with title in native language and in English
I am preparing a paper. Some of the documents are written in Portuguese. My supervised suggested me to include in the bibliography the title translated to English and the title in Portuguese as well, ...
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Reversed name in shorthand division of bibliography
Using Biblatex with LyX I've managed to get a subdivided bibliography almost the the way I want it. The idea is to cite the key works with abbreviations that are conventional to my subject. For this I ...
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Degree symbol in bib file
I can't get a the degree symbol to appear in the title.
I have tried:
title={Surface Tension of Alcohol and Water from 20 to 50{\degree}},
and
title={Surface Tension of Alcohol and Water from 20 ...
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Separation between last and secondlast item in citet with authoryear style?
If citing several items with \citet, I want to achieve a specific separator (like "and") between the last and the second last item. For example \citet{Grieg,Greg,Gregor} should give something like ...
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Biblatex: 2 custom fields, only one is working
Following this question BibLaTeX/BibTeX custom field to show file link and Notes after bibliography entry with Biber and biblatex I get it to work (well, more or less). In the code below I defined a ...
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Generate Author/Year Index Using biblatex and imakeidx
Based on this question/answer Automatically indexing references by author and year, I am trying to create an index of all my entries in the bibliography database. For that I am using biblatex to ...
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BibLaTeX/BibTeX custom field to show file link [closed]
I am trying to build a database for my references. I don't want to use Mendeley or so to do the job. Therefore I have a pdf file that displays all references that I have, like it is in the MWE. Now I ...
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Getting divided bibliography with Biblatex
I'm writing my thesis in LyX using Biblatex.
Would it be possibly to get an output bibliography that is subdivided into one section with the work of my main subject (Wittgenstein) referred to with ...
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xelatex biblatex russian indexing
I use the xelatex with the biblatex package and with indexing author names. The biber works fine with bibliography of books in English and in Russian. The author index is generated. In the ...
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Biblatex: Adding time information to “online” field and a label in front of url
I am trying to add some "time" information to my online-fields in biblatex. I tried to use the note entry, but that won't work as intended.
Right now I got the following:
\documentclass[a4paper,
...
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Embed \cite in \bibnote
Consider the following code:
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper, twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex}
\usepackage{notes2bib}
\addbibresource{test.bib}
\defbibnote{intro}{This intro ...
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Exclude \fullcite{…} citation from bibliography
Is there a way to excluded a citation specified in the text by \fullcite{Doe2013} from the bibliography? (I'm using biblatex+biber.)
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Indexing with biblatex - how to filter out publication titles of indexed authors?
I am creating an index with biblatex, but want to filter out the publication titles.
The goal is to have only the names of the authors in the index of authors, right now I end up with all author ...
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No spacing between citations
I'm trying to eliminate the space between the numbers in multiple citations, and I've tried using the \usepackage[compress]{natbib} and \usepackage[nospace]{cite} packages and commands to do it, but I ...
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Good, neutral source for ISBN linking? [migrated]
In my bibliography, I want to link the ISBN number to an actual website. My question is: which website is recommended to be used? Is there some 'neutral' source that I can expect to be still ...
