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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.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[defernumbers=true]{biblatex}

\DeclareBibliographyCategory{cited}
\AtEveryCitekey{\addtocategory{cited}{\thefield{entrykey}}}

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{A01,
  author = {Author, A.},
  year = {2001},
  title = {Alpha},
}

@misc{B02,
  author = {Buthor, B.},
  year = {2002},
  title = {Bravo},
}

@misc{C03,
  author = {Cuthor, C.},
  year = {2003},
  title = {Charlie},
}
\end{filecontents}

\bibliography{\jobname}

\begin{document}

\nocite{*}

\cite{A01,B02}

\printbibliography[title={References},category=cited]

\printbibliography[title={Further Reading},notcategory=cited]

\end{document}
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Good question. :-) One the one hand, section 3.6.2 of the biblatex manual mentions

mixing a numerical subbibliography with one or more subbibliographies using a different scheme (e. g., author-title or author-year).

On the other hand, according to section 3.1.1, style, bibstyle and citestyle are load-time options, i.e. they must be specified when biblatex is loaded and cannot be used in the optional argument of \printbibliography.

I have a possibly hackish solution. Load biblatex with a numeric style (the default behaviour) or an alphabetic style. Define a new bibliography environment nolabelbib that simply copies the definition of bibliography as found in authortitle.bbx and authoryear.bbx (i.e. one that doesn't print a label). Switch to this environment for your "Further Reading" (sub-)bibliography. The result should equate the authortitle style.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{biblatex}

\DeclareBibliographyCategory{cited}
\AtEveryCitekey{\addtocategory{cited}{\thefield{entrykey}}}

% The following definition is copied from authortitle.bbx/authoryear.bbx
\defbibenvironment{nolabelbib}
  {\list
     {}
     {\setlength{\leftmargin}{\bibhang}%
      \setlength{\itemindent}{-\leftmargin}%
      \setlength{\itemsep}{\bibitemsep}%
      \setlength{\parsep}{\bibparsep}}}
  {\endlist}
  {\item}

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{A01,
  author = {Author, A.},
  year = {2001},
  title = {Alpha},
}
@misc{B02,
  author = {Buthor, B.},
  year = {2002},
  title = {Bravo},
}
@misc{C03,
  author = {Cuthor, C.},
  year = {2003},
  title = {Charlie},
}
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\nocite{*}

\begin{document}

Some text \autocite{A01,B02}.

\printbibliography[title={References},category=cited]

\printbibliography[env=nolabelbib,title={Further Reading},notcategory=cited]

\end{document}

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  • Wow, biblatex never stops to amaze me.
    – user2330
    Feb 2, 2011 at 17:28
  • I've tried to compile this example with pdflatex file.tex bibtex file pdflatex file.tex pdflatex file.tex But no bibliography was generated. How could I compile correctly the example? Thanks.
    – jackb
    Sep 6, 2013 at 10:19
  • Problem solved with \usepackage[style=numeric-comp,useprefix,hyperref,backend=bibtex]{biblatex}
    – jackb
    Sep 6, 2013 at 10:49
  • This is also perfect for adding a global bibliography with a different style to per-section bibliographies. Just define the nolabelbib environment in preamble, open a new refcontext (with your preferred sorting option) for your global biblio, \nocite{*} (possibly to gether with the cited macro), and call upon the environment at the global \printbibliography. Thanks a lot!
    – RoB
    Apr 27 at 9:32
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You might also want to check out the multibib library:

http://www.bakoma-tex.com/doc/latex/multibib/multibib.pdf

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    The question is about biblatex so multibib is irrelevant. Biblatex already allows multiple bibliographies and cannot be used with such auxiliary packages.
    – cfr
    Oct 30, 2019 at 14:46

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