I am trying to customize biblatex (with biber as backend) so as to handle Japanese authors' names in an elegant way.
Lets consider the following bibtex entry:
@article{HondaSuzuki2014,
author = {本田, 太郎 and 鈴木, 次郎},
journal = {日本語で書かれたジャーナル},
number = {1},
pages = {3--23},
title = {日本語のタイトル},
volume = {9},
year = {2014}
}
The authors are Honda and Suzuki. I would like the citation commands to produce the following outputs:
- citet:
blablabla Honda and Suzuki (本田,鈴木 2014) blablabla
- citep:
blablabla (本田,鈴木 2014) blablabla
I understand that I should put the transcription of the authors' names (i.e. Honda and Suzuki) in a field... but which field? Then what should I do to get the desired output? Finally, I want to keep the citations of authors in latin characters the way they are. That is:
- citet:
blablabla Smith and Winston (2014) blablabla
- citep:
blablabla (Smith and Winston 2014) blablabla
Do I need 4 different citation commands? In addition to citet
and citep
Something like citetj
(citet for Japanese names) and citepj
(citep for Japanese names)?
Any help (advice, code, reference to a good tutorial) will be greatly appreciated.
biblatex
(source of the ms dev version on github, ready made package on sourceforge) offers exactly those features. It is currently under development, but somewhat usable, and I'm sure the developers would like some real-word feedback.biber
has been augmented to allow this functionality. You'll find details in the PDF doc and also on the github thread mentioned above. I welcome any feedback on this.