When using biblatex, how can you obtain abbreviated first names for authors in the bibliography (i.e. like the abbrv
bibtex)?
I've been trying to look everywhere in the manual, but so far no luck.
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Sign up to join this communityWhen using biblatex, how can you obtain abbreviated first names for authors in the bibliography (i.e. like the abbrv
bibtex)?
I've been trying to look everywhere in the manual, but so far no luck.
Loading biblatex
with the package option giveninits=true
will just print the initial of the author's first name.
Note that this will not work in somewhat old versions, and you must use (the now-deprecated) firstinits=true
option instead, which accomplishes the same thing.
abbrv
. Anyway, thanks a lot!
– Juan A. Navarro
Jun 30 '11 at 11:20
giveninits
. The deprecated name continues to work, but it produces a warning. It is strongly advised to switch to the new name.
– moewe
Mar 24 '17 at 13:39
While this is way to late, it might still help someone:
If you are actually looking for emulating the abbrv style, then there is this simple solution of adding style=trad-abbrv
to the package options (before any other).
firstinits=true
– Seamus Jun 30 '11 at 11:13