Obtain author name and year with a single citation command with ieee style in Biblatex

Question

I want to cite author name and year in my thesis using \textcite command. I can not do that since I am using IEEE style.

So please help me to turn "Mr Bla et al. [4]" to "Mr. Bla et al. (2018)" using \textcite or any other command in BibLaTeX

BibLaTeX command:

\usepackage[backend=biber,style=ieee,sorting=nyvt,maxbibnames=99,maxcitenames=2,mincitenames=1]{biblatex}

Answer 1

FWIW I think it makes little sense to use an author-year output in a document that has numeric citations otherwise. If for some reason you want to discuss the author or year of a work you cite do that explicitly in the text as in

In 1998 Sigfridsson and Ryde found that ...

or if you insist on using biblatex commands

In \citeyear{1998} \citeauthor{1998} found that ...

In those cases I would probably still add a proper reference to the work in numeric format with \cite{sigfridsson} so that it can be found more easily in the bibliography.

Mixing citation styles is often ill advised and can lead to confusion or at least irritation due to the inconsistency.

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This is a copy of authoryear.cbx's \textcite renamed to \aytcite so that we don't overwrite the old name.

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

\usepackage[backend=biber, style=ieee, labeldateparts, sorting=nyvt, maxbibnames=99, maxcitenames=2, mincitenames=1]{biblatex}

\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\providebool{cbx:parens}

\newbibmacro*{citeyear}{%
  \iffieldundef{shorthand}
    {\iffieldundef{labelyear}
       {\usebibmacro{cite:label}}
       {\usebibmacro{cite:labeldate+extradate}}}
    {\usebibmacro{cite:shorthand}}}

\newbibmacro*{aytcite}{%
  \ifnameundef{labelname}
    {\iffieldundef{shorthand}
       {\usebibmacro{cite:label}%
        \setunit{%
          \global\booltrue{cbx:parens}%
          \printdelim{nonameyeardelim}\bibopenparen}%
        \ifnumequal{\value{citecount}}{1}
          {\usebibmacro{prenote}}
          {}%
        \usebibmacro{cite:labeldate+extradate}}
       {\usebibmacro{cite:shorthand}}}
    {\printnames{labelname}%
     \setunit{%
       \global\booltrue{cbx:parens}%
       \printdelim{nameyeardelim}\bibopenparen}%
     \ifnumequal{\value{citecount}}{1}
       {\usebibmacro{prenote}}
       {}%
     \usebibmacro{citeyear}}}

\newbibmacro*{cite:shorthand}{%
  \printtext[bibhyperref]{\printfield{shorthand}}}

\newbibmacro*{cite:label}{%
  \iffieldundef{label}
    {\printtext[bibhyperref]{\printfield[citetitle]{labeltitle}}}
    {\printtext[bibhyperref]{\printfield{label}}}}

\newbibmacro*{cite:labeldate+extradate}{%
  \iffieldundef{labelyear}
    {}
    {\printtext[bibhyperref]{\printlabeldateextra}}}

\newbibmacro*{aytcite:postnote}{%
  \iffieldundef{postnote}
    {\ifbool{cbx:parens}
       {\bibcloseparen}
       {}}
    {\ifbool{cbx:parens}
       {\setunit{\postnotedelim}}
       {\setunit{\extpostnotedelim\bibopenparen}}%
     \printfield{postnote}\bibcloseparen}}

\DeclareCiteCommand{\aytcite}
  {\boolfalse{cbx:parens}}
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \iffirstcitekey
     {\setcounter{textcitetotal}{1}}
     {\stepcounter{textcitetotal}%
      \textcitedelim}%
   \usebibmacro{aytcite}}
  {\ifbool{cbx:parens}
     {\bibcloseparen\global\boolfalse{cbx:parens}}
     {}}
  {\usebibmacro{aytcite:postnote}}

\begin{document}
\cite{sigfridsson} or \aytcite{sigfridsson}
\printbibliography
\end{document}