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How can I suppress biblatex's styling of the fields in the bibliography? Instead of slanted or italic titles I prefer plain font. That means all fields except the author and year should be printed in plain serif font. It would also be good to suppress the quotation marks.

A second issue is that the shortauthor-field shall provided given in bold font in front of the auhtor. Is this possible?

Thanks in advance for your support!

Minimal example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[a4paper]{geometry}

\usepackage[
style=authoryear-icomp,
backend=biber,
sorting=nyt,
sortcase=false,
url=false,
isbn=false,
doi=false,
clearlang=false,
maxbibnames=10,
maxcitenames=2,
dashed=false
]{biblatex}

% usage of et al.
\DefineBibliographyStrings{ngerman}{%
    andothers = {et\addspace al\adddotspace},%
    andmore = {et\addspace al\adddotspace},%
}

% colon behind author in bibliography
\renewcommand{\labelnamepunct}{\addcolon\space}

\usepackage{xpatch}
% author in bold font in bibliography
\xpretobibmacro{author}{\mkbibbold\bgroup}{}{}
\xapptobibmacro{author}{\egroup}{}{}
\xpretobibmacro{bbx:shortauthor}{\mkbibbold\bgroup}{}{}
\xapptobibmacro{bbx:shortauthor}{\egroup}{}{}
\xpretobibmacro{bbx:editor}{\mkbibbold\bgroup}{}{}
\xapptobibmacro{bbx:editor}{\egroup}{}{}

\usepackage{blindtext}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
    @Book{Berthold2014,
        Title                    = {In erster Linie Kinder. Flüchtlingskinder in Deutschland.},
        Author                   = {Berthold, Thomas},
        Year                     = {2014},
        Publisher                = {Deutsches Komitee für \textsc{Unicef} e.\,V.},
        Url                      = {https://www.unicef.de/blob/56282/fa13c2eefcd41dfca5d89d44c72e72e3/fluechtlingskinder-in-deutschland-unicef-studie-2014-data.pdf},
        Urldate                  = {2016-07-02},

        Owner                    = {sg},
        Timestamp                = {2016.07.14}
    }

    @Misc{BAMF2015b,
        Title                    = {Aktuelle Zahlen zu Asyl.},
        Author                   = {{Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge}},
        Year                     = {2015},
        Note                     = {Stand: Dezember 2015.},

        Owner                    = {lo},
        Shortauthor              = {BAMF},
        Timestamp                = {2016.07.17}
    }


    @Inbook{Braches-Chyrek2014a,
        Title                    = {Einleitung.},
        Author                   = {Braches-Chyrek, Rita and Röhner, Charlotte and Sünker, Heinz and Hopf, Michaela},
        Booktitle                = {Handbuch frühe Kindheit.},
        Year                     = {2014},
        Editor                   = {Braches-Chyrek, Rita and Röhner, Charlotte and Sünker, Heinz and Hopf, Michaela},
        Pages                    = {11-24},
        Publisher                = {Budrich},

        Address                  = {Opladen},
        Owner                    = {sg},
        Timestamp                = {2016.07.31}
    }

\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}
    \nocite{*}
    \printbibliography
\end{document}
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    There are the \DeclareFieldFormat, \DeclareListFormat, and \DeclareNameFormat directives. I think the 'second issue' should probably be put in a second question with its own title so others will be able to find it. – jon Aug 7 '16 at 19:10
  • Please consider splitting your two totally unrelated questions into two questions. We prefer to have one question per question. – moewe Aug 8 '16 at 6:09
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The format of fields is controlled via \DeclareFieldFormat. Most defaults are set in biblatex.def.

You can reset italics/emphs and quotation marks with

\DeclareFieldFormat*{citetitle}{#1}
\DeclareFieldFormat*{journaltitle}{#1}
\DeclareFieldFormat*{issuetitle}{#1}
\DeclareFieldFormat*{maintitle}{#1}
\DeclareFieldFormat*{booktitle}{#1}
\DeclareFieldFormat*{title}{#1}

Note that we used the starred version here, this allows us to unconditionally overwrite all type-specific formats.

MWE (note that I have modified your bib entries to not include the full stop in the titles, that is not necessary; I have also changed the DefineBibliographyStrings declaration to use \adddot instead of \adddotspace)

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}

\usepackage[
style=authoryear-icomp,
backend=biber,
sorting=nyt,
sortcase=false,
url=false,
isbn=false,
doi=false,
clearlang=false,
maxbibnames=10,
maxcitenames=2,
dashed=false
]{biblatex}

% usage of et al.
\DefineBibliographyStrings{ngerman}{%
    andothers = {et\addspace al\adddot},%
    andmore = {et\addspace al\adddot},%
}

% colon behind author in bibliography
\renewcommand{\labelnamepunct}{\addcolon\space}

\usepackage{xpatch}
% author in bold font in bibliography
\xpretobibmacro{author}{\mkbibbold\bgroup}{}{}
\xapptobibmacro{author}{\egroup}{}{}
\xpretobibmacro{bbx:shortauthor}{\mkbibbold\bgroup}{}{}
\xapptobibmacro{bbx:shortauthor}{\egroup}{}{}
\xpretobibmacro{bbx:editor}{\mkbibbold\bgroup}{}{}
\xapptobibmacro{bbx:editor}{\egroup}{}{}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@Book{Berthold2014,
  title     = {In erster Linie Kinder. Flüchtlingskinder in Deutschland}, 
  author    = {Berthold, Thomas},
  year      = {2014},
  publisher = {Deutsches Komitee für \textsc{Unicef} e.\,V.},
  url       = {https://www.unicef.de/blob/56282/fa13c2eefcd41dfca5d89d44c72e72e3/fluechtlingskinder-in-deutschland-unicef-studie-2014-data.pdf},
  urldate   = {2016-07-02},
}

@Misc{BAMF2015b,
  title        = {Aktuelle Zahlen zu Asyl},
  author       = {{Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge}},
  year         = {2015},
  note         = {Stand: Dezember 2015.},
  shortauthor  = {BAMF},
}

@Inbook{Braches-Chyrek2014a,
  title      = {Einleitung},
  author     = {Braches-Chyrek, Rita and Röhner, Charlotte and Sünker, Heinz and Hopf, Michaela},
  booktitle  = {Handbuch frühe Kindheit},
  year       = {2014},
  editor     = {Braches-Chyrek, Rita and Röhner, Charlotte and Sünker, Heinz and Hopf, Michaela},
  pages      = {11-24},
  publisher  = {Budrich},
  address    = {Opladen},
}

\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\DeclareFieldFormat*{citetitle}{#1}
\DeclareFieldFormat*{journaltitle}{#1}
\DeclareFieldFormat*{issuetitle}{#1}
\DeclareFieldFormat*{maintitle}{#1}
\DeclareFieldFormat*{booktitle}{#1}
\DeclareFieldFormat*{title}{#1}


\begin{document}
  \nocite{*}
  \printbibliography
\end{document}

example output

A more radical solution is to make all \mkbib... formatting commands output plain text

\makeatletter
\protected\def\blx@imc@mkbibquote#1{#1}
\protected\long\def\blx@imc@mkbibemph#1{#1}
%\protected\long\def\blx@imc@mkbibbold#1{#1}
\protected\long\def\blx@imc@mkbibitalic#1{#1}
\makeatother
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