{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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Guidelines for customizing biblatex styles
Suppose I've just made the switch to biblatex. I have chosen one of the built-in styles (numeric, alphabetic, authoryear, authortitle, verbose) or of the custom styles available at CTAN, and I've ...
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What to do to switch to biblatex?
Because of the great answers posted around in the site, I'm finally considering to do the switch and move to biblatex. So, the question is what do I have to do?
To give the question some focus, ...
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bibtex vs. biber and biblatex vs. natbib
I've heard of many different bibliography-related packages/platforms/?. What's the difference between the following, which is good for what tasks, advantages/disadvantages, which one is the most ...
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Showing the bibliographic entry in a popup when you hover over the citation key
I thought it would be useful to have bibliographic entries displayed as a tooltip so readers are not interrupted by following hyperlinks or trying to find the Bibliography, so I created the following ...
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Biblatex: submitting to a journal
Suppose that I moved from BibTeX to biblatex. With BibTeX I just copied the content of .bbl file into final version of my paper before submitting it to a journal. What should I do at same stage having ...
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biblatex for idiots
Is there a 'biblatex in a nutshell' guide out there?
I'd like if someone explained to me the essentials on how to use biblatex (what lines I have to write in my document, which files I have to have, ...
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Suppress “In:” biblatex
How do I suppress the "In: " before the journaltitle? Like so:
In: Journal of Applied Physics
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How to split bibliography into “works cited” and “works not cited”?
I need two bib-like sections: a "References" giving works explicitly cited in my text, and a "Bibliography" (or "Further reading" if you prefer) giving everything from my bibfile that didn't already ...
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Is there a WYSIWYG editor for biblatex styles?
Does anyone know if a WYSIWYG editor for biblatex exists, where I simply can enter some kind of template (e.g. regular expression or whatever) and the needed commands to produce this style would be ...
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How to emulate the traditional BibTeX styles (plain, abbrv, unsrt, alpha) as closely as possible with biblatex?
This question led to a new package:
biblatex-trad
I'd like to use biblatex while at the same time maintaining the bibliography format of the traditional BibTeX styles (plain, abbrv, unsrt, ...
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What is the difference between bibtex and biblatex?
I've been reading about biblatex more and more on here. What is the difference between it and bibtex?
Why should I switch to biblatex? Seeing the documentation doesn't seem too mature (or accessible ...
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Is there any advantage to using \addbibresource over \bibliography?
I've always used \bibliography to tell BibTeX where my bibliography is, and when I moved to biblatex, I didn't change. I see a lot of biblatex answers use \addbibresource instead. What is the ...
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Bibliography tools that are compatible with biblatex and biber
I’m currently in the process of reconsidering how I do bibliography management. It seems to be most sensible to use biblatex with biber. I’d like to know what tools are available on which I can build ...
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Can I count the number of times each reference is cited?
I am writing a paper, and I would like to be able to find out automatically how many times each reference is cited. This could either be appended to the references in a printed version, or outputted ...
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Coordinating the work of Biblatex style authors
I am not sure whether this is an admissible question. If it is not, please close it.
The problem
Biblatex opens up the realistic possibility of highly complex citation systems such as those used in ...
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Is it possible to suppress a specific field from bibtex .bbl in biblatex?
I'm using biblatex, and am still very new at it.
I can't figure out how to suppress certain fields automatically generated from my bibtex file into my .bbl file. For instance, for all of my entries, ...
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Automatically link bibliography entry to Google Scholar when no url field is present
Something I thought would be absolutely amazing but is way beyond my BibLaTeX skills: whenever there is no url field, generate a link that searches for the title, authors and year on Google Scholar. ...
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biblatex: Reverse numbering (i.e., count down)
I was wondering if it is possible to get the citation numbers to count down
[3] newest item
[2] item
[1] oldest item
in biblatex? I am sorting using either using sorting=none and entering in ...
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Compatibility of bibtex and biblatex bibliography files?
In the answer to bibtex vs. biber and biblatex vs. natbib the advantages and disadvantages of Biber vs. BibTeX (and of natbib vs. biblatex) were explained. However, one point was omitted: The question ...
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biblatex: make title hyperlink to DOIs, URL or ISBN
This is a follow up question to biblatex: Make title hyperlink to doi url (if available). My reference database contains some DOI codes, but mainly normal URLs and some ISBN/ISSN codes. What I would ...
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biblatex sorting by date
I have written my own biblatex style for citing jurisdiction. I realized that the sorting in the bibliography is not chronological within the years. I addressed the date field to each bibliography ...
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.bib library file in a different directory, how to use? (Mendeley centralised .bib file)
problem
Hello All,
I have the possibility of a centralised, updated .bib file using Mendeley Desktop. This file will stay updated with all the changes I make using my Mendeley citation software.
I ...
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Replace `et al.` with `\& al.`
I’m a big fan of ampersands (possibly too much …) and I’d like to replace all mentions of “et al.” (included in citations) by \& al. – both in the main text (I use natbib citations of the form ...
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How to use biber
Simply put I want to know what steps I need to take to start biber with biblatex. I haven't been able to find any proper tutorials or guides showing how you go about using it instead of BibTeX.
What ...
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Disable ISSN but keep ISBN with biblatex
I'm writing a document where I want ISBNs to be shown for books so I have turned on the isbn option. This causes the ISSN for journals to be shown when I reference an article. Is there a way to enable ...
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biblatex: Make title hyperlink to doi url (if available)
I'm using biblatex with the standard bibliography style. How or what should I modify so that the title is turned into a link pointing to a suitable doi url? (of course only if the doi is available)
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Make specific author bold using biblatex
I am writing my CV in LaTeX. I am using biblatex and want my name (and only my name) to be bold for every reference. Is there a magic way to do this?
A similar question Make one author's name ...
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Visualize bibliography entry process of biblatex
I'm currently working on modifying the verbose biblatex style to my needs. In order to find out what's going on and to find the definitions I need to modify, I've been digging through a number of ...
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Sorting of author names like “von Beethoven” with biblatex
I wonder how I can get a proper sorting of names in the bibliography.
In the following example, "von Beethoven" is at the position "v", but it should be sorted as "Beethoven" under "B".
...
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Problem: Different authors result in same citation symbol
Behavior: Using biblatex's alphabetic style, I'm citing "Mr. Stark" and "Stack Exchange Inc.", both of 2010. In both cases I get [Sta10] as a reference symbol.
Problem: The reader cannot know whom ...
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Biblatex: Get rid of ISSN, URLs and DOIs in references
My .bib files are generated by Mendley desktop and usually contain URLs, ISSN and DOIs, but I don't want those to be displayed in my list of references. How can I get rid of them (short of deleting ...
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How can I put more space between bibliography entries (biblatex)
My bibliography (made with biblatex) has all items close to each other. I would like to introduce some space between them, e.g. half a line.
How can I do this?
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biblatex – et al. beginning from second citation?
Basically all I need to know is how I can use "et. al" beginning from the second citation of a source. I am using the following
\usepackage[
natbib=true,
style=authoryear
]{biblatex}
I need ...
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BibTeX style that groups by author
I'm looking for a BibTeX style that formats the reference list at the end in the way shown below. The key points are:
The references are sorted by the (list of) authors, and then each author has a ...
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Biblatex, capitalization of arabic names and name prefixes
As we know, using the useprefix option, when name prefixes like von, della etc. are present in the bibliography, enables us to change name sorting as well as capitalize those prefixes using commands ...
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Citing a range of papers (using numeric keys)?
Is there a way so that, when I cite a range of papers, the output is a range of numbers, instead of a list of numbers? In other words, when I type
... some dummy text here is due to me \cite{me1, ...
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Customising emacs to use biblatex-biber instead of bibtex
I use biblatex, but I still go through running bibtex on my .bib files, rather than biblatex-biber, which is/will be preferred. How do I arrange for C-c C-c to run the relevant biber command, rather ...
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biblatex: displaying all authors of multi-author works in the bibliography
I'm using the biblatex package to add citations and a bibliography to my LaTeX document. I've noticed that only the first author plus "et al." is displayed for works with more than three authors. ...
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Check if an entry is cited multiple times
I am trying to find out whether it is currently possible to have a test in Biblatex that tests at the very first time an entry is cited whether the same entry will be cited more than once in the ...
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Biblatex: changing the order of entries
I switched to biblatex only recently and I'm still struggling with understanding how to do things properly. My question is: How to change the order of entries/units/blocks in the bibliography? The ...
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Can I use biblatex with Tufte classes?
Is it possible to use biblatex with the Tufte document classes (tufte-handout and tufte-book). If so, what modifications should I make to my preamble or class wrapper in order to use biblatex?
I've ...
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Why doesn't parskip=half work together with fontenc in bibliographies?
If \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} is used and parskip=half is set:
Else (either \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} isn't used or parskip=half isn't set):
I consider the second one the correct style. Why is ...
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URL field only for certain reference types with biblatex
I'm using biblatex for my references. My bib file includes many references which I have imported from different sources. Not all references have a url entry and some of them are bogus. I now like to ...
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biblatex: How to remove the parentheses around the year in authoryear style?
The standard authoryear style in biblatex puts parentheses around the year in the bibliography and no parentheses around in text citation years:
Smith 2011 shows ... (citation)
Smith, Joe ...
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Why is biber so slow?
I have a simple document, about 20 pages long with some mathematics and a couple of tikz diagrams. I use biblatex and biber (0.9.9 MacTeX 2011) to compile my references, of which there are currently ...
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Add new field to biblatex entries
Many of the books I use are parts of series. biblatex gives you more fields to add bibliographic information to than BibTeX does, but it has no fields appropriate for the editor of a series. If I use ...
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How to create multilingual (English, Japanese) bibliographies with biblatex, biber and polyglossia
I would like to update my bibtex file in a way that allows me to create multilingual bibliographies. Since I publish in English and Japanese, I will need this to work in a way that:
In an English ...
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Is there an ebib-like bibliography manager for emacs designed for biblatex? [closed]
I've been using ebib to manage my .bib files, but I've just switched over from using bibtex to using biblatex & biber to actually generate the bibliographies in documents. Obviously the file ...
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Set limit to one author when using “et al.” in biblatex
In the header of my document I set the maximal author names to 2:
\usepackage[style=authoryear-icomp, maxbibnames=9, maxcitenames=2, backend=biber]{biblatex}
Now, when I cite texts with two ...
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biblatex: How to omit “p.” at \cite?
I'm using \cite[1]{A01}. The result is
Author 2001, p. 1
The desired result is
Author 2001, 1
How do I achieve that? I'm aware of biblatex: How to remove the parentheses around the year in ...
