I'm finishing a document in the book class, using biblatex with authoryear style. I'm also using the default behavior of the style to let biblatex replace repeated author names in different entries with a dash.
Usually, when printing the bibliography, biblatex reprints the author name on the top of an even page, even when it continues a series of repeated instances of the same author entries from the previous page. Which is important, otherwise the reader must go back one page to know the author of that entry.
However, in one instance of my document, this behavior fails. Apparently, what happens is that the last entry of the previous (odd) page is broken and extends to the following (even) page and thus the following entry, which is the first whole one in the (even) page, has the author name replaced with a dash. As a matter of fact, as I'm working with a long list of references of the same author, I get a whole pair of facing pages with just dashes and no author names.
I'm aware that I could recur to the option dashed=false and make the issue vanish. But I'd like to keep the dash substitution if possible.
Any ideas on how to solve or circumvent this problem?
Edit: As requested in the comments I include a MWE of the problem:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[papersize={140mm,210mm}, inner=26mm, outer=18mm, top=15mm, bottom=48mm]{geometry}
\usepackage[bibstyle=authoryear,citestyle=authoryear-comp,backend=biber,sorting=nyt]{biblatex}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{MWE.bib}
@book{AndoFisherSimon1963,
keywords = {Simon},
author = {Albert Ando and Franklin Fisher and Herbert A. Simon},
title = {Essays on the structure of social science models},
date = {1963},
publisher = {The MIT Press},
location = {Cambridge, MA},
langid = {english},
}
@article{HawkinsSimon1949,
keywords = {Simon},
author = {David Hawkins and Herbert A. Simon},
title = {Note: Some conditions of macroeconomic stability},
journaltitle = {Econometrica},
date = {1949},
volume = {17},
pages = {245--248},
langid = {english},
}
@book{HMMS1960,
keywords = {Simon},
author = {Charles C. Holt and Franco Modigliani and John F. Muth and Herbert A. Simon},
title = {Planning production, inventories, and work force},
date = {1960},
publisher = {Prentice-Hall},
location = {Englewood Cliffs},
langid = {english},
}
@book{MarchSimon1958,
keywords = {Simon},
author = {James G. March and Herbert A. Simon},
title = {Organizations},
date = {1958},
publisher = {John Wiley and Sons},
location = {New York},
langid = {english},
}
@book{NewellSimon1972,
keywords = {Simon},
author = {Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon},
title = {Human problem solving},
date = {1972},
publisher = {Prentice-Hall},
location = {Englewood Cliffs, NJ},
langid = {english},
}
@book{Simon1947,
keywords = {Simon},
author = {Herbert A. Simon},
title = {Administrative behavior},
date = {1947},
subtitle = {A study of decision-making processes in administrative organization},
edition = {1\textsuperscript{st} ed.},
publisher = {The Macmillan Company},
location = {New York},
langid = {english},
}
@article{Simon1952,
keywords = {Simon},
author = {Herbert A. Simon},
title = {On the definition of the causal relation},
journaltitle = {Journal of Philosophy},
date = {1952},
volume = {49},
month = {July 31},
pages = {517-528},
addendum = {Reimpresso em \textcite[50--61]{Simon1957}},
langid = {english},
}
@book{Simon1957,
keywords = {Simon},
author = {Herbert A. Simon},
title = {Models of man, social and rational},
date = {1957},
subtitle = {Mathematical essays on rational human behavior in a social setting},
publisher = {John Wiley and Sons},
location = {New York},
langid = {english},
}
@inbook{Simon1953a,
keywords = {Simon},
author = {Herbert A. Simon},
title = {Causal ordering and identifiability},
booktitle = {Studies in econometric method},
date = {1953},
editor = {W. C. Hood and J. C. Koopmas},
publisher = {Wiley},
location = {New York},
addendum = {Reimpresso em \textcite[10--36]{Simon1957}},
langid = {english},
}
@article{Simon1953b,
keywords = {Simon},
author = {Herbert A. Simon},
title = {Notes on the observation and measurement of political power},
journaltitle = {Journal of Politics},
date = {1953},
volume = {15},
month = {November},
pages = {500--516},
addendum = {Reimpresso em \textcite[62--78]{Simon1957}},
langid = {english},
}
@article{Simon1954a,
keywords = {Simon},
author = {Herbert A. Simon},
title = {Spurious correlation: a causal interpretation},
journaltitle = {Journal of the American Statistical Association},
date = {1954},
volume = {49},
month = {September},
pages = {467--479},
addendum = {Reimpresso em \textcite[37--49]{Simon1957}},
langid = {english},
}
\end{filecontents*}
\addbibresource{MWE.bib}
\begin{document}
\nocite{*}
\chapter*{Referências\markboth{\MakeUppercase{Referências}}{}}
\printbibliography[heading=subbibintoc,title={Trabalhos de Herbert A.\ Simon}, keyword=Simon]
\end{document}
Under this MWE I get the same issue:
pagetrackeroption, especially the valuespageandspread.pagetrackeroption. With thepagevalue I did get the author name on the first entry of the next (odd) page. But no change at all with either value on the even page in question. I'll edit the post to include a MWE.\textcites in your bibliography are the culprits. The citation to Simon (1957) in the first line of your screenshot is the first citation/bib item on that page, so the next line that starts is not treated as being the first on the page.\textciteof the problematic entry for the corresponding plain text and the problem vanished. And that offers me a nice and simple workaround. Thanks! Still, I do not quite get why should the\textcitecount as the first bibliography entry in the page.biblatexmaintainer and ask for his input (on thebiblatexgithub). Be aware though, that calls to citation commands in the bibliography are often seen as a bit "meh" and that use of other features such as therelatedfield could be preferable here.