Elsevier style citation for biblatex

Question

I'm writing thesis and I'm forced to use citation format same as used Elsevier/ScienceDirect journals:

[#] Authors: Title, Editors: Booktitle, Publisher, volume(number)(year), pages.

ie.:

[1] P.K. Chu and L. Li: Characterisation of..., Materials CHemistry and Physics, 96(2-3)(2006), 253-277.

There are .bst style files for BibTeX, but I'm using biblatex. The one from all Elsevier's .bst files is elsart-num, others are available there.

• Is there any biblatex style providing same citation style?
• Is there easy way to create such that one or tune existing biblatex style?
• Is it possible to create command/macro providing output: "From {AUTHOR}:{Title}[{reference}]." using BibTeX? (in biblatex I'm using
  \newcommand\foo[1]{\Citeauthor{#1}: \citetitle{#1} \cite{#1}.})

Thanks for any idea.

Answer 1

This should be what you want. Traditional elsart-num:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{Bli74,
  author = {Blinder, Alan S.},
  year = {1974},
  title = {The economics of brushing teeth},
  journal = {Journal of Political Economy},
  volume = {82},
  number = {4},
  pages = {887--891},
}
@book{Kop04,
  author = {Kopka, Helmut and Daly, Patrick W.},
  year = {2004},
  title = {Guide to \LaTeX},
  edition = {4},
  address = {Boston},
  publisher = {Addison-Wesley},
}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{document}

\nocite{*}

\bibliographystyle{elsart-num}
\bibliography{\jobname}

\end{document}

biblatex emulation:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[firstinits=true,abbreviate=false]{biblatex}

\renewcommand*{\multinamedelim}{\addcomma\space}
\renewcommand*{\finalnamedelim}{\addcomma\space}

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

\DeclareFieldFormat*{title}{#1}
\DeclareFieldFormat{journaltitle}{#1}

\renewbibmacro{in:}{%
  \ifentrytype{article}{%
  }{%
    \printtext{\bibstring{in}\intitlepunct}%
  }%
}

\renewbibmacro*{volume+number+eid}{%
  \printfield{volume}%
  \setunit*{\addnbspace}%
  \printfield{number}%
  \setunit{\addcomma\space}%
  \printfield{eid}}
\DeclareFieldFormat[article]{number}{\mkbibparens{#1}}

\renewcommand*{\bibpagespunct}{\addspace}

\DeclareFieldFormat{pages}{#1}

\renewbibmacro*{publisher+location+date}{%
  \printlist{publisher}%
  \setunit*{\addcomma\space}%
  \printlist{location}%
  \setunit*{\addcomma\space}%
  \usebibmacro{date}%
  \newunit}

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{Bli74,
  author = {Blinder, Alan S.},
  year = {1974},
  title = {The economics of brushing teeth},
  journaltitle = {Journal of Political Economy},
  volume = {82},
  number = {4},
  pages = {887--891},
}
@book{Kop04,
  author = {Kopka, Helmut and Daly, Patrick W.},
  year = {2004},
  title = {Guide to \LaTeX},
  edition = {4},
  location = {Boston},
  publisher = {Addison-Wesley},
}
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\nocite{*}

\begin{document}

\printbibliography

\end{document}

For further information see Guidelines for customizing biblatex styles.

Answer 2

The accepted answer is working except for the spacing between items, which is too tight.

A solution is to add

\setlength\bibitemsep{1ex} % or whatever space you want

to the settings.