Bibliography Style with abstract and numbered references

Question

How to get a bibliography style that generates numeric-style citation call-outs and typesets the contents of the abstract fields of bibliographic entries?

Answer 1

You seem to want a numeric style, biblatex offers some variations on your classical version, namely numeric-comp and numeric-verb.

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The abstract field is by default not included in the bibliography output, but we can easily add it using

\DeclareFieldFormat{abstract}{\par\small#1}
\renewbibmacro*{finentry}{\printfield{abstract}\finentry}

Where the first line takes care of a nice formatting.

MWE

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=numeric]{biblatex}

\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\DeclareFieldFormat{abstract}{\par\small#1}
\renewbibmacro*{finentry}{\printfield{abstract}\finentry}

\begin{document}
\cite{sigfridsson,kastenholz}

\printbibliography
\end{document}

Answer 2

I know it's fairly late now. I just want to tack on an 'improvement' to @moewe 's answer. This way nothing is done if the abstract field is undefined, say for a dictionary entry or something. It also puts a period (\finentrypunct) at the end of the previous line before printing the abstract.

\DeclareFieldFormat{abstract}{\par\small\textbf{Abstract}: #1}
\renewbibmacro*{finentry}{%
   \iffieldundef{abstract}
      {%
         \finentry
      }
      {%
         \finentrypunct\printfield{abstract}\finentry
      }
   }

I use something like the above, including a new toggle coupled with \newcommand to have the ability to selectivity to turn abstracts on for a particular bibliography, say personal publications in a thesis as an example, or turn it on globally at the package load with printabstract=true.

\makeatletter
\newcommand\printabstractstrue{\settoggle{bbx:printabstract}{true}}
\newcommand\printabstractfalse{\settoggle{bbx:printabstract}{false}}
\makeatother

\newtoggle{bbx:printabstract}
\DeclareBibliographyOption{printabstract}[true]{%
   \settoggle{bbx:printabstract}{#1}%
   }

\DeclareFieldFormat{abstract}{\par\small\textbf{Abstract}: #1}
\renewbibmacro*{finentry}{%
   \iffieldundef{abstract}
      {%iffieldFALSE
         \finentry
      }
      {%iffieldTRUE
         \iftoggle{bbx:printabstract}
            {%iftoggleTRUE
               \finentrypunct\printfield{abstract}\finentry
            }
            {%iftoggleFALSE
            \finentry
            }
      }
   }