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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Sign up to join this communityThis 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}{}
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
.
\labelalphaothers
myself, but now I do.
\labelalphaothers
myself, until I looked it up for this answer (c; So I learned two things …