Volume Comma Issue Number

Question

I would like to make some amendments for my bib appearances. One of them is changing the article style. This is what it looks like now:

I would like the quotation marks to be removed and the volume and issue number to look like this

This is what the bib entry looks like: `

@article{McMaster.1963,
 author = {McMaster, John},
 year = {1963},
 title = {The Takashima Mine},
 pages = {215--239},
 pagination = {page},
 volume = {38},
 subtitle = {British Capital and Japanese Industrialization},
 journaltitle = {Business History Review},
 number = {3},
 abstract = {}
}

This is what the bibliography looks like:

%----------------------------------------------------------------------------
%   BIB
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 \usepackage[
    backend=biber,
    style=authoryear,
    sorting=nyvt
  ]{biblatex}
  \addbibresource{backmatter/sample.bib}
\renewcommand{\mkbibnamefamily}[1]{\textsc{#1}}
\renewcommand{\labelnamepunct}{\addcolon\space}
\DeclareFieldFormat{postnote}{#1}
\DeclareFieldFormat{multipostnote}{#1}
\renewcommand\postnotedelim{\addcolon\addspace}
\usepackage{url}
\urlstyle{same}

Sorry for these questions, I am rather new to LaTeX and still trying to figure things out

Answer 1

If you use the drop-in replacement ext-authoryear from biblatex-ext, you only need a few more lines.

The punctuation between volume and number is controlled by \volnumdelim. The field format of the title with \DeclareFieldFormat

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

 \usepackage[
    backend=biber,
    style=ext-authoryear,
    sorting=nyvt
  ]{biblatex}

\renewcommand{\mkbibnamefamily}[1]{\textsc{#1}}

\DeclareDelimFormat{nametitledelim}{\addcolon\space}

\DeclareFieldFormat
  [article,inbook,incollection,inproceedings,patent,thesis,unpublished]
  {title}{#1\isdot}

\renewcommand*{\volnumdelim}{\addcomma\space}

\renewcommand\postnotedelim{\addcolon\space}
\DeclareFieldFormat{postnote}{#1}
\DeclareFieldFormat{multipostnote}{#1}

\usepackage{url}
\urlstyle{same}


\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{McMaster.1963,
 author = {McMaster, John},
 year = {1963},
 title = {The Takashima Mine},
 pages = {215--239},
 pagination = {page},
 volume = {38},
 subtitle = {British Capital and Japanese Industrialization},
 journaltitle = {Business History Review},
 number = {3},
 abstract = {}
}
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\begin{document}
\cite{sigfridsson,McMaster.1963}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

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If you can't (or don't want to) use ext-authoryear, the one line with \renewcommand*{\volnumdelim}{\addcomma\space} above needs to be replaced with

\newcommand*{\volnumdelim}{\addcomma\space}

\renewbibmacro*{volume+number+eid}{%
  \printfield{volume}%
  \setunit*{\volnumdelim}%
  \printfield{number}%
  \setunit{\addcomma\space}%
  \printfield{eid}}

of course you could cut out the middle man of \volnumdelim here if you want and can directly write \setunit*{\addcomma\space}% instead.