I was wondering what some biblatex
entry types are used for. In the Overleaf documentation there is a list of avalible entry types:
article | book | mvbook |
inbook | bookinbook | suppbook |
booklet | collection | mvcollection |
incollection | suppcollection | manual |
misc | online | patent |
periodical | suppperiodical | proceedings |
mvproceedings | inproceedings | reference |
mvreference | inreference | report |
set | thesis | unpublished |
custom | conference | electronic |
masterthesis | phdthesis | techreport |
datatype |
Specificually I wonder what the enry datatype
is used for? What are the mandatory and optional fields for this entry? I am also uncertain what set
is used for. I would also like to know if there is a difference between misc
and custom
?
I also found some additional entries that is defined by biblatex
but are not well supported according to wikibooks.
@artwork | @audio | @image |
@movie | @music | @performance |
@video | @software |
And some legal entry types:
@commentary | @jurisdiction | @legislation |
@legal | @letter | @review |
@standard |
I am also curious about some of these. What is standard
used for? What fields does music
and performance
accept? Do you put the music composer as author
in that case? For instance; how would you go about citing music by Beethoven using music
? I suspect it is not that different from using the misc
entry?
Finally it would be very useful with some kind of list of what fields are mandatory and optional for each entry. I really liked the list provided by wikibooks:
Unfortuantley it does not include the two latter tables nor all entries from the first. Another shortcoming is that you can, for exaple, provide the url
field for masterthesis
or phdthesis
and have it appear in the bibliography. This is however not mentioned by the list.