I would adapt the numeric-comp style in biblatex to give the following reference/citation format sepcified by the IET Journals:
Journal article
Smith, T., and Jones, M.: ‘The title of the paper’, IET Syst. Biol., 2007, 1, (2), pp. 1–7
Conference paper
Jones, L., and Brown, D.: ‘The title of the conference paper’. Proc. Int. Conf. Systems Biology, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2006, pp. 1–7
Book, book chapter and manual
Hodges, A., and Smith, N.: ‘The title of the book chapter’, in Brown, S. (Ed.): ‘Handbook of Systems Biology’ (IEE Press, 2004, 1st edn.), pp. 1–7
Harrison, E.A., and Abbott, C.: ‘The title of the book’ (XYZ Press, 2005, 2nd edn. 2006)
Thesis
Abbott, N.L.: ‘The title of the thesis’. PhD thesis, XYZ University, 2005
but I have no idea where to start. This is what I have done so far:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=numeric-comp,sorting=none,firstinits=true,maxbibnames=999,isbn=false,doi=false]{biblatex}
\DeclareNameAlias{default}{last-first}
\DeclareFieldFormat
[article,inbook,incollection,inproceedings,patent,thesis,unpublished]
{title}{`#1'}
\DefineBibliographyStrings{english}{%
edition = {edn.}
}
\renewcommand*{\newunitpunct}{\addcomma\space}
\DeclareFieldFormat[article]{volume}{\mkbibbold{#1}}
\DeclareFieldFormat[article]{number}{\mkbibparens{#1}}
\renewbibmacro*{volume+number+eid}{%
\printfield{volume}%
\setunit*{\addcomma\space}%
\printfield{number}%
\setunit{\addcomma\space}%
\printfield{eid}}
\renewbibmacro{in:}{%
\ifentrytype{article}{%
}{%
\printtext{\bibstring{in}\intitlepunct}%
}%
}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@ARTICLE{zierler_linear_1959,
author = {Zierler, N.},
title = {Linear recurring sequences},
journaltitle = {J. Soc. Ind. Appl. Math.},
year={1959},
volume = {7},
number = {1},
pages = {31--48}
}
@incollection{serfling_asymptotic_2011,
address = {London},
title = {Asymptotic relative efficiency in estimation},
volume = {1},
isbn = {978-3-642-04897-5},
booktitle = {International Encyclopedia of Statistical Science},
publisher = {Springer},
author = {Serfling, Robert},
editor = {Lovric, Miodrag},
year = {2011},
pages = {68--72}
}
@PHDTHESIS{enqvist_linear_2005,
author = {Anon, B.},
title = {A PhD Thesis},
school = {\LaTeX University},
year = {1999},
location = {London}
}
@inproceedings{wong_sysid_2012,
author = {Anon, B.},
title = {Writing in \LaTeX},
eventtitle = {Some conference},
location = {Brussels, Belgium},
eventdate = {2012-07}
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\nocite{*}
\begin{document}
\printbibliography
\end{document}
gives
Zierler, N., ‘Linear recurring sequences’, J. Soc. Ind. Appl. Math. 7, (1) (1959), pp. 31–48.
Serfling, R., ‘Asymptotic relative efficiency in estimation’, in: Interna- tional Encyclopedia of Statistical Science, ed. by Lovric, M., vol. 1, London: Springer, 2011, pp. 68–72.
Anon, B., ‘A PhD Thesis’, PhD thesis, London: LATEX University, 1999.
Anon, B., ‘Writing in LATEX’, in: Some conference (July 2012), Brussels, Belgium.
which isn't exactly right. Noticeably, lack of colons, parentheses in book publishers, etc
Thank you very much in advance.