I have a problem with Biblatex Authortitle. I am trying to define the shorthand field connected with the style. the program I use (Citavi) creates the shorthands such as Gozzoli The Writing of History. Whenever I use the style however, the title appears without italics and comma between name of the author and title. My ideas for the citation was of having the author surname in Small Capitals, then comma, then the title of a book in italics and the title of an article in double quotation marks for instance. For the bibliography, the actual style was OK, at least for the moment. I have scanned through the Biblatex manual, but I have not found a way to do that, and a Google search did not help either. I am an Egyptologist trying to use XeLateX in the field, so please excuse me whether the question is slightly banal.
As required I am now adding the example, the text is only garbage:
\documentclass[11pt]{memoir} % for a long document
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{PsammetichusII.bib}
@article{Gozzoli.2000,
author = {Gozzoli, Roberto B.},
year = {2000},
title = {The Statue BM EA 37891 and the Erasures of Necho II's Names},
pages = {67–80},
paginationtype = {page},
volume = {86},
journaltitle = {JEA},
shorthand = {Gozzoli The Statue BM EA 37891},
usera = {Yes},
userb = {Statue BM EA 37891}
}
@book{Gozzoli.2006b,
author = {Gozzoli, Roberto B.},
year = {2006},
title = {The Writing of History in Ancient Egypt during the First Millennium BC(ca. 1070-180 BC). Trends and Perspectives},
volume = {6},
publisher = {Golden House Publications},
shorthand = {Gozzoli The Writing of History in},
location = {London},
series = {Golden House Studies},
usera = {Yes},
userb = {Writing of History in Ancient Egypt}
}
@article{Gozzoli.1995,
author = {Gozzoli, Roberto B.},
year = {1995},
title = {The Nubian War Texts of Psametichus II: An Essay of Explication},
pages = {46–49},
paginationtype = {page},
volume = {25},
journaltitle = {JSSEA},
shorthand = {Gozzoli The Nubian War Texts of},
usera = {Yes},
userb = {Nubian War Texts}
}
@article{Gozzoli.1997,
author = {Gozzoli, Roberto B.},
year = {1997},
title = {La campagna nubiana di Psammetico II e i testi di frontiera saitici},
pages = {5–16},
paginationtype = {page},
volume = {38},
journaltitle = {DE},
shorthand = {Gozzoli La campagna nubiana di Psammetico},
usera = {Yes},
userb = {La campagna nubiana}
}
\end{filecontents}
\usepackage[style=authortitle,backend=biber]{biblatex}
%\usepackage[style=footnote-dw,backend=biber]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{PsammetichusII.bib}
%%% BEGIN DOCUMENT
\begin{document}
reign.\footnote{\textcite{Gozzoli.1995,Gozzoli.1997,Gozzoli.2000}The two articles about the Nubian texts, originally treated in the dissertation,\Parencite{Gozzoli.2006b,Gozzoli.1995}
The second part is a list of royal documents or documents dated to Psammetichus II's reign.\footnote{\autocite{Gozzoli.1995,Gozzoli.2006b}.}
filecontents
package and environment in the preamble, as I did in my edit. This will write the contents of the environment to the filename specified as the argument, and saves us from copying the bib-info to a new file.