The reason I want to do it is that the Bluebook style for American legal academica requires it. But I haven't been able to find out on how to do it. I have moved close to the desired Bluebook result departing from Will Hardy's Australian Guide to Legal Citation 2 or AGLC2.
According to the Bluebook, the citation of articles and books should finish with the year they were published between brackets. So, for instance:
Article:
Author, Title of the article. 4 Harv. L. Rev 93, 98[this is the page] (year)
Book [all in Small Caps]:
Author, Title of the Book [page] (year)
The files I use are the following:
- Will Hardy's ALC2 (aglc2.bbx and aglc2.cbx)
- A biblatex.cfg which looks like this (I think it is relevant for my question).
Biblatex.cfg:
\DeclareFieldFormat
[article,inbook,incollection,inproceedings,patent,thesis,unpublished]
{title}{\emph{#1\isdot}}
\DeclareFieldFormat
[book]
{title}{\sc{#1\isdot}}
\DeclareFieldFormat
[article,inbook,incollection,inproceedings,patent,thesis,unpublished]
{journaltitle}{\sc{#1}}
\renewbibmacro*{journal+issuetitle}{%
\printfield{volume}
\usebibmacro{journal}%
\setunit*{\addspace}%
\newunit}
\AtEveryCitekey{%
\clearfield{day}%
\clearfield{month}%
\clearfield{endday}%
\clearfield{endmonth}%
\clearfield{shorttitle}%
}
\endinput
Here's a MWE:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[spanish]{babel}
\usepackage[backend=biber, sortlocale=auto, style=aglc2, citestyle=aglc2]{biblatex}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\addbibresource{america2.bib}
\begin{document}
This paper is an example of how footnotes should work in \emph{Bluebook}, the
style of citation used in American legal academia. We call authors such as Friedman,
who we think is awesome.\footcite[578]{friedman1} And we think he is awesome again.\footcite[578]{friedman1}
And we cite him again.\footcite[578]{friedman1} But then we move on and cite some
other guy for ``a new jurisprudence of judicial restraint.''\footcite{balkin}
Some other guy gets cited \footcite{kurland} and then we cite Friedman again
but with another article.\footcite{friedman2} But then we cite a book.\footcite[22]{parker}
And we cite Kurland again\footcite{kurland}
\printbibliography
\end{document}
Sorry I didn't include, before, america2.bib:
@article{friedman1,
title = {Dialogue and Judicial Review},
volume = {91},
issn = {00262234},
url = {},
doi = {10.2307/1289700},
pages = {577},
number = {4},
journaltitle = {Michigan Law Review},
author = {Friedman, Barry},
urldate = {2014-06-03},
date = {1993-02},
file = {}
}
@book{parker,
title = {Here, the People Rule: A Constitutional Populist Manifesto},
volume = {},
url = {},
shorttitle = {Here, the People Rule},
pages = {},
journaltitle = {},
shortjournal = {},
author = {Parker, Richard D.},
date = {1992},
file = {}
}
@article{friedman2,
title = {Importance of Being Positive: The Nature and Function of Judicial Review, The},
volume = {72},
url = {},
shorttitle = {Importance of Being Positive},
pages = {1257},
journaltitle = {University of Cincinnati Law Review},
shortjournal = {U. Cin. L. Rev.},
author = {Friedman, Barry},
date = {2003},
file = {}
}
@article{kurland,
title = {The Supreme Court, 1963 Term},
volume = {78},
issn = {{0017811X}},
url = {},
doi = {10.2307/1338853},
pages = {143},
number = {1},
journaltitle = {Harvard Law Review},
author = {Kurland, Philip B.},
urldate = {2014-06-03},
date = {1964-11},
file = {}
}
@article{balkin,
title = {Understanding the Constitutional Revolution},
volume = {87},
url = {},
pages = {1045},
journaltitle = {Virginia Law Review},
shortjournal = {Va. L. Rev.},
author = {Balkin, Jack M. and Levinson, Sanford},
date = {2001},
file = {}
}
america2.bib
. – Bernard Jun 15 '14 at 12:58