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My journal articles are not appearing correctly in my bibliography. For example, this journal article:

@article{biernacki1981snowball,
  title={Snowball sampling: Problems and techniques of chain referral sampling},
  author={Biernacki, Patrick and Waldorf, Dan},
  journal={Sociological methods \& research},
  volume={10},
  number={2},
  pages={141--163},
  year={1981},
  publisher={SAGE Publications Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA}
}

appears as

Biernacki, P. and Waldorf, D. (1981). “Snowball sampling: Problems and techniques
    of chain referral sampling”. In: Sociological methods & research
    10.2, pp. 141–163.

How do I change '. In:' to ',' ? I.e get:

Biernacki, P. and Waldorf, D. (1981). “Snowball sampling: Problems and techniques
    of chain referral sampling”, Sociological methods & research
    10.2, pp. 141–163.

The journal should be in italics in which mind he did ask is again actually the network too much earlier.

The thing is too big for a MWE but I use:

\usepackage{bibentry} 
\usepackage[style=authoryear-ibid,firstinits,backend=bibtex,sorting=nyt,natbib=true, maxbibnames=99,maxcitenames=2, uniquelist=false, uniquename=false]{biblatex}
\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{family-given}
\addbibresource{example.bib}
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    \renewcommand*{\newunitpunct}{\addcomma\space} if you are OK with changing a few other full stops into comma as well. Or \renewbibmacro*{in:}{\setunit{\addcomma\space}\printtext{\bibstring{in}\intitlepunct}} if only that one full stop can be changed.
    – moewe
    Jun 25, 2018 at 6:35
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    Please note that providing an MWE makes our lives a lot easier. For starters I could have tested my suggestions in the comment above properly. And there are some questions that simply can not be properly answered without an MWE. So even if your document is huge and your preamble quite large, please take the time to reduce them to a minimal working example that you can post here. An MWE makes sure that we are all talking about the same thing, it lets us test our solutions and it shows that you value the time of the people trying to help you by not letting them replicate what you already have.
    – moewe
    Jun 25, 2018 at 6:38
  • Ta moewe. Sorry abou lack of MWE PHD due in imminently. Will try if I have time. Does your solution change all of '. in:' in all references?
    – schoon
    Jun 25, 2018 at 9:33
  • I'm not too au fait with latex!
    – schoon
    Jun 25, 2018 at 9:33
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    What do you mean by The journal should be in italics in which mind he did ask is again actually the network too much earlier.?
    – moewe
    Jun 25, 2018 at 14:02

1 Answer 1

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To get rid of the "in:" for good and make it only a comma for all entry types, go with

\renewbibmacro*{in:}{%
  \setunit{\addcomma\space}}

If you only want the ". In:" to disappear for @articles you'll want

\renewbibmacro*{in:}{%
  \ifentrytype{article}
    {\setunit{\addcomma\space}}
    {\printtext{%
       \bibstring{in}\intitlepunct}}}

where there will be a full stop before the "in:" for all other entry types

or

\renewbibmacro*{in:}{%
  \setunit{\addcomma\space}%
  \ifentrytype{article}
    {}
    {\printtext{%
       \bibstring{in}\intitlepunct}}}

where all types get a comma at roundabout the position of the "in:" (or where it would be if it were present).


Old answer kept in case it might be useful for someone else.

\renewbibmacro*{in:}{%
  \setunit{\addcomma\space}%
  \printtext{%
    \bibstring{in}\intitlepunct}}

will replace all full stops/periods before the "In:" with a comma resulting in ", in:" being output instead. This changes all "in:"s - @article as well as @incollection, @inbook and @inproceedings

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With

\renewcommand*{\newunitpunct}{\addcomma\space}

the punctuation before the "in:" as well as a lot of other punctuation can be changed from a full stop to a comma. \newunitpunct is the generic go-to punctuation command in case no special punctuation is defined.

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  • Sorry, i guess I was not clear I do not want 'in:' or its fullstop. I just want a comma.
    – schoon
    Jun 25, 2018 at 13:52
  • @schoon For all types or only @article?
    – moewe
    Jun 25, 2018 at 13:53
  • Only for article.
    – schoon
    Jun 26, 2018 at 8:13
  • @schoon See the edit at the top of the answer. Please test the different solutions and pick the one that works for your actual document and surroundings.
    – moewe
    Jun 26, 2018 at 8:17
  • Fantastic, works great. Thankyou so much!! My articles are also missing a comma after the journal title. Can you point me in the direction of how I might do something similar to add this comma?
    – schoon
    Jun 27, 2018 at 8:26

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