{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: 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 ...
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Capitalizing “forthcoming” in bibliography but not in citation
I'm citing a couple of forthcoming articles without a known publication date, so I want to have "forthcoming" instead of the year in both in-text citations and the bibliography. However, I want to ...
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Capitalize the first letter of each word in biblatex
I'm trying to get every word in the title of each article in my reference list in capital letters (So Something Like This For Every Title). However, somehow \MakeSentenceCase remains active no matter ...
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Force DOI on a newline in reference list
I'm using biblatex for my citations (using xelatex). This is the relevant code to invoke the reference list:
\usepackage[backend=biber, style=authoryear, doi=true, firstinits=true, ...
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Dates not printing using BibLaTeX [closed]
I'm using biblatex to process the bibliography for my dissertation using APA. The problem is that dates are not being printed; the dates are being replaced by a n.d. and this is not correct because my ...
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latin.lbx for biblatex
I started (a long time ago, but ...) to create a latin.lbx for biblatex, but there is one problem with some of the strings, and I'm hoping others have already tackled this for other languages.
The ...
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beamer reference list
I am using Beamer with biblatex.
When I used the code below, it produced bibliography which has three slides. But the references in the last slide are in the center rather than top. So the first two ...
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biblatex - comma with space behind every unit (style=authoryear)
I'd like to have a comma behind every unit in a bibliography entry except the year and at the end of an entry. How can I achieve that?
This is what I have so far.
\usepackage[
language=auto,
...
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Pandoc performs very slowly when referencing large biblatex file [closed]
Whenever I have a pandoc markdown file that I am converting to PDF or HTML, and it contains a reference to a large biblatex file (> 100 KB) for citations, the performance is incredibly slow. I end up ...
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elsarticle.cls and biblatex incompatibility
I would like to submit a paper to an Elsevier journal, which uses elsarticle document class. elsarticle loads natbib but I've been using biblatex instead of BibTeX throughout most of my files (I have ...
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Customizing a biblatex style - can I start with lockstep's post?
I want to customize a biblatex style based on authoryear (and thus based on standard as well). So when I read this, does it mean I have to work with the cumulated paste of both .bbx-files or can I ...
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Update in Biblatex MLA citation style? [closed]
I complied an essay for my English Composition class. After receiving the review, the grader marked my Works Cited as 'incorrect'.
I use lualatex -> biber -> lualatex -> lualatex to compile my .tex. ...
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Language-specific removal of diacritics from text and bibliography
I am using XeLaTeX and BibLateX to write papers in the humanities. I routinely use transcriptions of Chinese (pinyin), Korean (McCune-Reischauer), Japanese (Hepburn), Manchu (Norman) etc. In addition, ...
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Problems with BibLaTeX and origyear in bibliography
This is my first time posting a question here so please excuse some mistakes. What I want to do is to cite something with its original publication year and have it appear as such in my bibliography. I ...
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Changing the style with biblatex
I'm still a LaTeX beginner. I'm using kile and KBibTeX on lubuntu. I try to use biblatex. I copied this from a help document into my preamble:
\usepackage[style=authortitle-icomp]{biblatex}
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biblatex and cite incompatibility?
I have read the documentation of the biblatex package. I have found that it is incompatible with the cite package. And I want to know what is the extent of this incompatibility?
Moreover, are the ...
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Colon problems in BibLaTeX citation style
I have to use the bibliography entry for the first citation of a source. This bibliography string contains several colons which are unfortunately not visible in the footnote. The following minimal ...
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Biblatex: 1) changing separator, 2) repeating author [duplicate]
(La)TeX newbie here. I'm writing my philosophy thesis in LyX. Loving it so far but trying to hack myself around the limitations of BibTex has been exhausting. Now – finally – I've gotten Biblatex to ...
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Redefine \cite for brackets [duplicate]
EDIT: I finally found out how to do it:
\newrobustcmd*{\parentexttrack}[1]{%
\begingroup
\blx@blxinit
\blx@setsfcodes
\blx@bibopenparen#1\blx@bibcloseparen
\endgroup}
\AtEveryCite{%
...
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Format inbook reference in biblatex
I have very strict requirements on how my reference list must look like. The standard biblatex styles are close but need some fine tuning. I was able to change a few things for electronic and book ...
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No hyphens in biblatex
How can I suppress hyphenation in biblatex?
(I know that only one sentence usually is considered bad question quality, but why over-complicate a simple (?) problem)
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Mechanics of BibLaTeX: proper connection of .bib file
Ok, I've experienced weird behavior with TeXstudio. I want to add bibliography directly to .bib file while using biblatex. People seem to do in this way. I don't want bibliography inside of the .tex ...
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Biblatex bibliography section changes chapter name in header
I'm putting together my thesis, using the Koma script book class and biblatex to create separate reference lists for each chapter. I'm putting the name of the chapter in the header of each left page, ...
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How to arrange references at the end of each chapter (in a Thesis)? [closed]
I am writing my PhD thesis and my supervisor has asked me to append the references at the end of each chapter. However, the template (which I am using) is unable to do so. I have downloaded this ...
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Biblatex style short name
I'm looking for a biblatex style which will create bibliography style according to scheme:
The first letter of the name, surname, title of the book, place of publication, year of publication.
I ...
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biblatex: filter out publications from a specific author without biber with many authors
this is follow-up to a recent question:
On my system with TexLive 2012 (biblatex 1.7-1), I am trying to separate the publications of a specific author from all other references (e.g. in case you want ...
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Change Biblatex Citation Style After Preamble
Is it possible to change the citation style after the preamble? My document requires "numeric" citation in the document, but then I would like to use "authoryear" as the headings for my appendices. ...
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How to define the bibliography style with 4 letters author, a gap and the two numbers of the year [closed]
How can I make the reference list as:
4 letters a gap and the two numbers of the year,
[Taja 00a] E. Tajahuerce and B. Javidi, "Encrypting
three-dimensional information with ...
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BibLatex modification: no small caps in authors [duplicate]
When using the code from this question, I get the names of authors in small caps. Is it possible to have it in normal text ?
The MWE:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{memoir}
%% -1- Encoding Stuff
% ...
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Textual source has two digit year
I'm working on a project that includes citations from the first century (0-99 CE) and I am using a TeX project to compile the information. I have set up my environment to use xelatex as my compiler ...
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BibLaTeX Citetracker Confusion
I have the following requirement: For the first time an author / the authors are mentioned, there has to be a "full" citation, matching the entry of the bibliography. After that, a short form is used, ...
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Getting a Harvard-style list of references using Biblatex
I've been dabbling with biblatex because I'm using TeXpad on the iPad. I have managed, I think, except for one thing: the final references are all numbered in the sequence they were used rather than ...
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Scrbook: Using fallback calculation to setup font sizes
When using the class scrbook and customizing the font size prior the usage of \printbibliography I got these warning (and in big documents I got them several times):
Class scrbook Warning: Using ...
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gb4e + biblatex error “patching footnotes failed”
I'm having a problem while using gb4e and biblatex in the same file. It does compile, but I get an "patching footnotes failed" warning.
Minimal example:
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
...
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BibLaTeX: Wrong indentation when changing font size?
BibLaTeX seems to calculate wrong indentation when I change the fontsize. The lines following the first one are a little to the left than the first line (see the red line).
MWE:
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biblatex+hyperref: citetitle/citeauthor and get hyperlink
I find myself frequently using the \citetitle and \citeauthor commands of biblatex. They are great commands, but they don't provide a hyperlink to the entry in the bibliography. TO overcome this, I ...
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BibLaTeX and babel - strange errors
I' m writing my MA thesis using LaTeX + BibLaTeX for bibliography. Sadly it seems that BibLaTeX paired with babel results in a number of strange errors:
\extraspolutonikogreek ...unct ...
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biblatex translation with wrong ligature
I'm playing around with biblatex at the moment. It works nice, but there is a problem with a translation of "Ed." (edition) to "Aufl." (Auflage). The translation is correct but it has a wrong ligature ...
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biblatex: change name of author according to language?
Usually a name stays the same in whatever language. So, whenever I quote a work by Knuth -- be it in an English article or a German one -- I will quote him as Donald E. Knuth.
This is not always the ...
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biblatex: Preserve capitalisation in inproceedings/booktitle
I'm using Biblatex-APA/Biber with LyX and a Bibtex-file produced from Mendeley. I can produce bibliographies without any problem, but I would like to change the reference style for ...
