I need to cite the following way:
The first 3 Letters of the author + the year.
Example:
Kemper 2009 --> [Kem09]
But I don't have any clue how to do that!
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This is the standard with biblatex’s style alphabetic, as long as you have one author. With multiple authors, this style takes the first letter of every author – up to three, as a default. If there are more than three authors, it takes the first three letters of the first name, then a + and the year, e.g.
Kemper 2009 > [Kem09]
Goossens, Mittelbach and Samarin 1994 > [GSM94]
Kemper et al. 2011 > [Kem+11]
Edit:
As Audrey stated in the comments, you can change the name of the authors that are used for the alphabetic label with the option maxalphanames. With maxalphanames=1, the above examples would look like this:
Kemper 2009 > [Kem09]
Goossens, Mittelbach and Samarin 1994 > [Goo+94]
Kemper et al. 2011 > [Kem+11]
If you want to get rid of the +, you can redefine the \labelalphaothers command: \renewcommand*{\labelalphaothers}{}
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i know, but every entry should have this format, not the aplha format– el.pasoSep 27, 2011 at 15:26
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3@el.paso You can use the options
style=alphabetic,maxalphanames=1. If the first three letters of the first author's last name and last two digits of the year don't specify a unique entry, a suffix is added. For example:Kem09a,Kem09b.– AudreySep 27, 2011 at 17:02 -
@Audrey, thanks for this, I didn’t know that (since I am not using the alphabetic styles). I edited my answer correspondingly.– domwassSep 28, 2011 at 6:23
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@domwass No problem. I think that option is relatively new. I actually didn't know about
\labelalphaothersmyself, but now I do.– AudreySep 28, 2011 at 14:41 -
@Audrey, actually, I didn’t know about
\labelalphaothersmyself, until I looked it up for this answer (c; So I learned two things …– domwassSep 28, 2011 at 15:07