{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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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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Suppress “In:” biblatex
How do I suppress the "In: " before the journaltitle? Like so:
In: Journal of Applied Physics
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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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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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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 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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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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Adding an [AuthorYear] block at the beginning of bibliography entries
I want to add a block at the beginning of my bib entries of the form
[Lastnameauthor(s) Year]
When the shortauthor field is defined it should use this field +Year instead. The following example ...
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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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Workflow for managing references?
What is your workflow for managing references? How does this workflow scale?
Do you use programs like zotero, mendeley, jabref? What are their pros and cons?
Does it allow easy integration of ...
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biblatex: remove commas between last and first names in bibliography
I am new to biblatex, and I need to create a bibliography with the authors' names with last names followed by pure initials. Using the style=numeric, firstinits and terseinits options along with:
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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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biblatex: Is it possible to patch macros created with \newbibmacro?
This question led to a new feature in a package:
xpatch
The etoolbox package provides various tools that "are useful to hook into or modify existing code" (etoolbox manual, section 3.4). The ...
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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: 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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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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Biblatex cite with footnote only once, with use of brackets
I've started putting into practice the answer to this question. Yet I would like to change this so that there are brackets around the citations:
in the superscript in text,
in the superscript in ...
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hyperlink name with biblatex authoryear (biblatex 1.4b)
I'm new here so I'm not sure if this is the right way to express my question:
I'm using the excellent biblatex package with the author-year style and want the links in my citations to include the ...
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biblatex-apa: undefined references
I cannot, for the life of me, get biblatex's apa style to work. Other biblatex styles work fine, apa, however, does neither print a reference list, nor produce a citation at all (single output is key ...
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Engines of Tex-Editors and Biber/Biblatex
Today I detected that biblatex, biber or whatever is responsible for citations and bibliography does not work correctly on my tex-files. I can think of two reasons for it:
Maybe my engine-file (I am ...
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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: 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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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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Repeat the same reference in footnote on different pages
I'm using BibLaTeX to handle my bibliography and I want a reference to be placed in a footnote on every page where I cite the same work and have the same number. Also I want to be able to cite the ...
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biblatex and new line for DOI, URL and Eprint
I've been playing around with biblatex a little and, since I am tired of broken DOIs, URLS and other eprint links, I would like to use a biblatex style which implements a new line for these fields. I ...
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Biblatex, author-year, square brackets
I need to customize the author-year citation in biblatex for a template at work. Right now biblatex cites like this:
Ruschmeyer u. a. 1995, S. 123
They way I was told it needs to cite is:
...
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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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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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.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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How do I include all authors of cited works in an index of persons?
I use the splitidx package to create a special index of named persons.
\usepackage[makeindex,protected]{splitidx}
\newindex[Index of people]{person}
\setindexpreamble[person]{...}
To index people ...
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biblatex : which style for a footnote once then nothing?
Ok sorry for this not so clear title. I'm having trouble to express & find what seems so simple :s
I'm biblatex and I would like to know which citation style/bibliographical style and/or option I ...
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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 ...
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biblatex conditional for printing an extradate
This is a follow-up question to biblatex format for online sources. I have the following biblatex configuration file. Thanks to Guido for the inputs. I have also taken some code for the ...
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Sentence case for titles in biblatex
I'd like to have the titles of articles in Biblatex in sentence case (first word capitialized, the rest lowercase, override with {}) as is the default in Bibtex.
I tried:
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Section added by \addcontentsline on the wrong page
I am adding a section with the bibliography references by using \addcontentsline in order to add a link to the table of contents. Unfortunately the link in the table of contents links to a wrong page, ...
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Help to develop a \textcite command to be used with verbose citation styles in Biblatex (help with \DeclareCiteCommand)
I want to have a \textcite command to be used with verbose citation styles in Biblatex. It should do something as this:
I use it within the text, to replace the subject of a sentence:
As ...
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hyperlink name with biblatex authoryear
I am using biblatex with the authoryear styles.
So far I've been able to find everything I need easily in the excellent documentation, but I'm stuck on one thing.
With my current settings (below) ...
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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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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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Avoiding inelegant splits on URLs
I am using biber and biblatex to process my bibliography. URLs are handled with breaklinks=true under hyperref.
I have found an inelegant breakup of a hyperlink resulting in a reference like this
...
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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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Use BibTeX key as the cite key
I tried to use natbib and other attempts but for vain. I would like to produce a cite key which is identical to the BibTeX entry. For example, if I have a BibTeX entry Bt98, then I want \cite{Bt98} to ...
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Two bibliographies with two different styles in the same document
When using biblatex, suppose I have set up two separate bibliographies, how can I assign them different styles, e.g. one numbered and the other author-year format or some such thing.
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Biblatex + Biber + Texmaker + MiKTeX
Will someone please help me to both configure Texmaker and use it so that I can use the backend=biber option with biblatex package. I am using MiKTeX 2.8 and Texmaker 3.1. Please do not simply tell me ...
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Can I use natbib in beamer, but omit the bibliography? [duplicate]
Can I call references from my .bib file, but not put a huge bibliography at the end of my presentation? Or at least hide it in a bunch of slides that don't display?
I tend to think in terms of my ...
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What TeX software to write technical papers with?
I am a noob when it comes to TeX, however, I do use LaTeX for typing mathematical and engineering formulas, etc.
Recently I have taken it upon myself to try and write some technical papers to try ...
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Multibib reverse label or sort order
I'm using multibib. I manually set the order of the bibliography. I would like the order of the numbered items to be reversed. For example, my document has:
\nociteX{Foo}
\nociteX{Bar}
And the ...
