How to reverse name and first name?

Question

With biblatex and verbose-trad2 style, I would like to reverse the order of the last name and the first name for inline references.

The default behavior is:

John DOE, Title, place : publisher, year

for inline references (in my case, in a footnote with footcite command) and:

DOE, John, Title, place : publisher, year

in the bibliography at the end of the document.

I would like to have both inline and final references in the following format (similar to the bibiography style).

DOE, John, Title, place : publisher, year

P-S : There are some close questions (like this one) but only about the final bibliography (and no inline references). \DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{last-first} works only for the ending references (not inline ones).

Answer 1

You will also have to set default, as the cite commands in verbose-trad2* temporarily set \DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{default} (and by ... default default is \DeclareNameAlias{default}{given-family}).

So just issue

\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{family-given}
\DeclareNameAlias{default}{family-given}

in the preamble. Note that default is used in a few other places as well, so this change also affects the bibliography. If you want a modification that affects only the citations, see below.

The MWE

\documentclass{article}  
\usepackage[style=verbose-trad2, backend=biber]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{family-given}
\DeclareNameAlias{default}{family-given}

\begin{document}
  A\footcite{wilde}
  B\footcite{cicero}
  \printbibliography
\end{document}

gives

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* The code can be found in verbose-trad2.cbx, the sixth line below is the offending one.

\newbibmacro*{cite:full}{%
  \usebibmacro{cite:full:citepages}%
  \global\toggletrue{cbx:fullcite}%
  \printtext[bibhypertarget]{%
    \usedriver
      {\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{default}}
      {\thefield{entrytype}}}%
  \usebibmacro{shorthandintro}}

This shows us that a different solution would be

\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{family-given}

\renewbibmacro*{cite:full}{%
  \usebibmacro{cite:full:citepages}%
  \global\toggletrue{cbx:fullcite}%
  \printtext[bibhypertarget]{%
    \usedriver
      {}
      {\thefield{entrytype}}}%
  \usebibmacro{shorthandintro}}

But of course that's longer. The effect is slightly different as this will only affect the name format in long citations and not anywhere else.

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edit See the edit history for the pre-3.3 code if you are using an outdated version of biblatex. Cf. Biblatex 3.3 name formatting.