No comma between location and year, year in parentheses in case of a journal

Question

question: I need the following entry in the bibliography

Doe John, Title of Book, Location Year.

or, if it's an article

Doe John, Title of Article, Journal Volume (Year) pages

I have the following code:

\renewbibmacro*{publisher+location+date}{%
        \iffieldundef{location}{%
            \printtext[parens]{%
                \printlist{year}\addspace%
                }}{%
            \printfield{location}\addspace%
            \printlist{year}\addspace%
        }
}

however the output for this is:

1. Book:

Doe John, Title of Book, ( ).

1. Article:

Doe John, Title of Article Volume (Year).

However, the book should be displayed as follows:

Doe John, Title of book, Location Year.

Any help appreciated.

MWE (complete):

\documentclass[10pt,twoside,headings=normal,headsepline=true,numbers=noenddot]{scrbook}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{helvet}
\usepackage{nomencl}
\usepackage{shorttoc}
\usepackage{tocloft}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[left=4.5cm,right=4.5cm,top=5.5cm,bottom=5.5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[backend=biber,sorting=nty,style=verbose,isbn=false,url=false,publisher=false]{biblatex}
\usepackage{nomencl}
\usepackage{makeidx}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{MWE.bib}
@INCOLLECTION{Doe1999,
  author = {John Doe},
  title = {Title of Book},
  publisher = {Kluwer Law International},
  year = {1999},
  volume = {25},
  series = {Series},
  shortauthor = {Doe},
  shorttitle = {Title of Book}
}
\end{filecontents}
\renewcommand\thechapter{\arabic{chapter}.}
\renewcommand\thesection{§ \arabic{section}}
\renewcommand\thesubsection{\Roman{subsection}.}
\renewcommand\thesubsubsection{\arabic{subsubsection}.}
\renewcommand\theparagraph{\alph{paragraph})}
\renewcommand\thesubparagraph{\alph{paragraph}\alph{subparagraph})}
\newcommand\thesubsubparagraph{\alph{paragraph}\alph{subparagraph}\alph{subsubparagraph})}
\renewcommand{\mkbibnamelast}[1]{\textsc{#1}}
\renewcommand{\mkbibnamefirst}[1]{\textsc{#1}}
\renewcommand{\mkbibnameprefix}[1]{\textsc{#1}}
\renewcommand{\mkbibnameaffix}[1]{\textsc{#1}}
\renewcommand*{\revsdnamepunct}{}
\defbibheading{lit}{\chapter*{Lit}}
\defbibheading{mat}{\chapter*{Mat}}
\DeclareFieldFormat[article,inbook,incollection,inproceedings,patent,thesis,unpublished,shorttitle,journal]{title}{#1}
\renewbibmacro*{finentry}{
                \ifnameundef{shortauthor}
                {
                    \iffieldundef{shorttitle}{%
                    \adddot}{
                    \printtext[parens]{%
                    {cit.}\addspace
                    \printfield{shorttitle}%
                    }\adddot
                    }
                }
                {
                    \iffieldundef{shorttitle}
                    {
                        \printtext[parens]{%
                        {cit.}\addspace
                        \printnames{shortauthor}%
                        }\adddot
                    }
                    {
                        \printtext[parens]{%
                        {cit.}\addspace
                        \printnames{shortauthor}\addcomma\addspace
                        \printfield{shorttitle}%
                        }\adddot
                    }
                }
                }\finentry
\renewbibmacro*{publisher+location+date}{%
        \iffieldundef{location}{%
            \printtext[parens]{%
                \printlist{year}\addspace%
                }}{%
            \printlist{location}\addspace%
            \printlist{year}\addspace%
        }
}
\AtEveryBibitem{\clearfield{publisher}}
\renewcommand{\newunitpunct}{\addcomma\addspace}
\ifpunct{\renewcommand*{\nameyeardelim}{\addspace}}{}
\addbibresource{MWE.bib}
\let\abk\nomenclature%
\makenomenclature
\makeindex
\dedication{\hfill You really reading this shit?}
\author{XYZ}
\title{XYZ}
\setlength{\parindent}{0in}
\setlength\overfullrule{50pt}
\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\pagenumbering{Roman}
\maketitle
\dedication
\thispagestyle{empty}
\renewcommand*{\dictumauthorformat}[1]{#1}
\renewcommand*{\dictumrule}{}
\dictum[Winston Churchill]{If you're going through hell, keep going.}
\newpage
\addcontentsline{ubs}{chapter}{Preface}
\chapter*{Vorwort}
\input{Preface}
\newpage
\addcontentsline{ubs}{chapter}{Overview}
\shorttoc{Overview}{1}
\newpage
\addcontentsline{ubs}{chapter}{ToC}
\tableofcontents
\addcontentsline{ubs}{chapter}{Nomenclature}
\printnomenclature
\printbibliography[title={Lit},heading=lit,notkeyword=mat]
\printbibliography[title={Mat},heading=mat,keyword=mat]
\mainmatter
Lorem ipsum\footcite[p. 1]{Doe1999}.
\backmatter
\addcontentsline{ubs}{chapter}{Index}
\printindex
\end{document}

Also, I would be grateful if someone could advice on how to use only the text in the (cit. shortauthor, shorttitle) in the actual footnote..

Answer 1

The verbose style and its variants follow an authortitle-style bibliography, which is closely based on the standard style defined in standard.bbx.

From this file you can see that the punctuation preceding publication dates are set by a few different bibliography macros, depending on the entry type: issue+date for @article, publisher+location+date for most books, institution+location+date for reports and theses, organization+location+date for @misc, and location+date for @booklet and @unpublished.

In issue+date publication dates are already set in parentheses. To remove punctuation before the page reference you can redefine the \bibpagespunct command from biblatex.def in your preamble:

\renewcommand*{\bibpagespunct}{%
  \ifentrytype{article}{\addspace}{\addcomma\space}}

To remove page prefixes (e.g. "p." and "pp.") add:

\DeclareFieldFormat{page}{#1}
\DeclareFieldFormat{pages}{#1}

The comma preceding the publication date in other entry types can originate from a few different places. For example in publisher+location+date:

\newbibmacro*{publisher+location+date}{%
  \printlist{location}%
  \iflistundef{publisher}
    {\setunit*{\addcomma\space}}% <- HERE
    {\setunit*{\addcolon\space}}%
  \printlist{publisher}%
  \setunit*{\addcomma\space}% <- OR HERE
  \usebibmacro{date}%
  \newunit}

Same goes for the other *location+date macros. To remove the commas change all relevant instances of \addcomma\space to \addspace in your redefinitions. Otherwise you can use the following dirty trick (at your own risk):

\renewbibmacro*{date}{\setunit{\addspace}\printdate}

In all these publications dates, if you are just wanting to print the publication year add the following to your preamble.

\AtEveryBibitem{%
  \clearfield{month}%
  \clearfield{day}}

\AtEveryCitekey{%
  \clearfield{month}%
  \clearfield{day}}

Your last request about use of shortauthor and shorttitle in citations would be better addressed as a new question. It needs to be clarified anyway.