Biblatex entries in bibtex-mode (emacs)

Question

Biblatex introduces new entries such as journaltitle (see Compatibility of bibtex and biblatex bibliography files?).

Biblatex manual, section 2.3:

In sum, the following items are different from traditional BibTeX styles:

• The entry type @inbook. See §§ 2.1.1 and 2.3.1 for details.

• The fields institution, organization, and publisher as well as the aliases address and school. See §§ 2.2.2, 2.2.5, 2.3.4 for details.

• The handling of certain types of titles. See § 2.3.5 for details.

• The field series. See §§ 2.2.2 and 2.3.7 for details.

• The fields year and month. See §§ 2.2.2, 2.3.8, 2.3.9 for details.

• The field edition. See § 2.2.2 for details.

• The field key. See § 2.3.2 for details.

I wondering how to set the bibtex-mode of Emacs to handle correctly these news entries.

For example, I would like bibtex-mode proposes something like:

@Article{,
  author =   {},
  title =    {},
  journaltitle =     {},
  date =     {},
  OPTkey =   {},
  OPTvolume =    {},
  OPTnumber =    {},
  OPTpages =     {},
  OPTmonth =     {},
  OPTnote =      {},
  OPTannote =    {}
}

instead of:

@Article{,
  author =   {},
  title =    {},
  journal =      {},
  year =     {},
  OPTkey =   {},
  OPTvolume =    {},
  OPTnumber =    {},
  OPTpages =     {},
  OPTmonth =     {},
  OPTnote =      {},
  OPTannote =    {}
}

when creating a new article entry.

How can I do that?

Answer 1

Emacs supports biblatex entries since version 24.1.

You can specify the BibTeX dialect either from menu Entry-types > BibTeX dialect > biblatex, or by adding these lines at the end of the file:

% Local Variables:
% bibtex-dialect: biblatex
% comment-start: "%"
% End:

If you want to set biblatex as default dialect, add the following to your Eamcs init file:

(setq bibtex-dialect 'biblatex)