Questions tagged [biblatex]
{biblatex} is a complete reimplementation of the bibliographic facilities provided by LaTeX. It has its own backend {biber} which can be used instead of {bibtex} and which supports, e.g., full {unicode}, highly customisable sorting, data source filtering, and customisable field inheritance.
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Unexpected behaviour with sorting option, multiple ref context and biblist (biblatex 3.0)
I have a large bibliography file where the vast majority of entries are annotated (and annotations can (and do) contain \cite commands).
I have to produce a list of the annotated entries displaying ...
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Adjust \autocite on the basis of long/short form citation
SBL Style has a very particular requirement for when citations occur within footnotes.
The standard verbose styles put citations in parentheses when they occur within footnotes by defining \smartcite ...
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Italicize cited only authors in person index
I want to have mixed persons index and cited works authors index. Authors which appears only in citations must be italicized in the index. Other persons (and authors which appears also in main text) ...
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Closing quotation marks don't protrude into the right margin of bibliography with biblatex
I like how the microtype package handles character protrusion when I compile my LaTeX documents with LuaLaTeX. But I have noticed that this doesn't seem to work properly in the bibliography that the ...
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Error when combining biblatex, hyperref and latexdiff
I've stumbled upon a weird incompatibility between the hyperref and biblatex packages and latexdiff. If there is an added citation with more authors than the biblatex maxcitenames parameter, then I ...
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Showing just the pages in a segment when using biblatex and backref=true
I'm using biblatex to manage bibliographies, and the backref=true option to:
print back references in the bibliography. The back references are
a list of page numbers indicating the pages on ...
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Getting an "and" before the last block/element in \cite in BibLaTeX if elements are compressed
Using BibLaTeX, I would like to create a \textcite command based on the numeric-comp style which instead of showing [1-3, 5] shows Refs. 1-3 and 5, and instead of showing [1-3, 5-7] gives Refs. 1-3 ...
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Fresh TexLive 2022 install: biblatex "Patching \MakeUppercase failed" error
I have just made a fresh install of TexLive 2022 following the quickinstall guide (https://tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html) including adding the paths to their corresponding variables. I am not ...
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biblatex and non-url friendly DOIs
Wiley seems to be assigning DOIs using some semantic schema of their own for some of their journals. E.g. 10.1002/1532-2890(2000)52:1<12::AID-ASI1062>3.0.CO;2-V.
Such DOIs have two unwanted ...
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Listing, indexing, and linking keywords in biblatex
I'm trying to make a document for myself that lists all of the references in my bibliography with their abstracts and keywords. I want an index which lists all of the keywords and their instances, ...
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Have printed bibliography include all entries cited from several .tex files
I am using biblatex with the biber backend (and compiling with XeLaTeX, if it happens to be important).
The default behavior of \printbibliography is to only add to the references manually cited in a ...
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Strange incompatibility between several packages (options)
The compilation of the following MCE fails with the error:
! Incomplete \iffalse; all text was ignored after line 29.
<inserted text>
\fi
Interestingly, as soon as:
one of the ...
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Biblatex reference list not translated to Bahasa Indonesia
Currently, I am following a tutorial on overleaf about bibliography generation. I tried to use Bahasa Indonesia language in my next document, so I load polyglossia package and set the main language to ...
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How to make citation style manage when different volumes of the same book are cited? ("op. cit." and "Ibid.")
This question follows this one, where some of the problems were solved, but I was asked to ask a new question with a mwe for citations with volumes.
Questions
The question is : how to make biblatex ...
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How to overcome this error in overlaf latex "Package inputenc Error: Invalid UTF-8 byte sequence"
Package inputenc Error: Invalid UTF-8 byte sequence.
See the inputenc package documentation for explanation.
Type H for immediate help.
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Biblatex and biber in VS Code
I've just changed from TexMaker to VS Code and have since been unable to compile .tex documents that use .bib bibliographies and biblatex with biber. I have also tried bibtex, but it doesn't work ...
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Biblatex Name Disambiguation only for Single Authors?
I'm using biblatex 3.13 and biblatex-chicago 1.0rc5 and would like to have names disambiguated only when they are single authors. In Chicago disambiguation is only needed on the judgment of the author,...
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Using the bibtex format (with JabRef) as a non-bib key-value database in LaTeX
This might sound a bit odd: I am using JabRef for maintaining a database which does not content bibliographical data in the first place:
@Person{caesar,
date = {100-44BC},
comment =...
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Biblatex - Citation order different from Reference order
I am using biblatex with biber option. Is there a way to use the ieee style with citation being number in brackets, ordered by order of appearance but to have the references displayed with \...
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Problems citing letters published in articles in biblatex-chicago
I'm having trouble citing @letters printed as part of an @article using biblatex-chicago. This is my MWE:
\documentclass[utf8,12pt,letterpaper]{report}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\defaultfontfeatures{...
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Biblatex: et al instead of u.a
I have a document with a lot of references. I am writing in german and when I use cite or parencite and the paper contains many authors, I get u.a. instead of et al.
These are the packages and ...
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Underlining Command preventing line breaks
Based on a code by Alex Chan and help from Jinwen here, I made a custom underlining command with nice results: as you can see on the pictures (here and in Jinwen's post edited by me), the underline ...
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Biber with MikTeX does not use local texmf tree
Environment
I'm using MikTeX on Linux.
I have a project located at $PROJECTDIR/myproject.tex.
I have a bibliography for that project located at $LOCALTEXMF/bibtex/bib/mybibs/myproject.bib.
I have ...
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Curated .bib example file
Is there any .bib example file that is canonical in the community?
Ideally, such a file would
Carry entries of all types (book, inproceedings, misc, etc.),
Have entries with optional fields filled (...
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BibLaTeX - addbibresource not working
I am using a self-hosted instance of Overleaf/ShareLaTeX, and I cannot get BibLaTeX to work. My preamble looks like this:
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{...
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Generate lowercase title and citation keys using JabRef
I am trying to edit the field "title" of all my bib entries at once using JabRef. I cannot find any option in the documentation for how should I convert all titles to lowercase. At the ...
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bibliography style with reference page numbers
What bibliography style is used here? reference page numbers and doi?
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BibLaTeX citetracker but with chapter numbers?
I have the following document:
\documentclass[openany]{memoir}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{c1, author={Author}, title={Article}}
@misc{c2, author={Writer}...
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Have same style for article and inproceedings in biblatex numeric style
In the numeric style, the article and inproceedings have different format for year. I need them to be in the same format for a non-academic document. I managed to add parenthesis around the year, ...
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TeX Studio won't recognize biblatex package
I am using TeX Studio on a linux computer (Ubuntu 18.04) with texlive. Inside TeX Studio, Whenever I try to build a document that uses the biblatex package, I get the error "File biblatex.sty not ...
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Biblatex problem with multiple authors and Asian names where last name comes first
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I realised it has something to do with the fact that I referenced Vo earlier on in a separate paper (Vo 2008). Now the in-text citations work fine if I refer to Vo as "Vo, Tri Tranh", ...
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JHEP style citations using biblatex
I am trying to build a CV which will contain two seperate list of papers I have authored, one for published papers and the other for preprints. I know I can do this quite easily using biblatex but I ...
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Based on some biblatex style to realize bilingual output
The image is what I want. I have try to fix the style based on gb7714-2015ms, which can allow user to use gb7714 style with Chinese bib, and default biblatex style with English. I almost realize the ...
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Remove "in" from some incollection bibliography entries
My style guide has certain peculiarities (seems common on tex.se). For certain, well-known collected works, incollection entries are cited without the "in" (that refers to the collection) ...
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Texstudio: Put auxiliary files in a separate folder then PDFs
I'm having a issue which is already been discussed here but apparently not with the solution I would like:
I'm using TexStudio and, while compiling, I would like to put auxiliary files in a different ...
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tcolorbox with minted option + glossaries + biblatex: limitation, incompatibility or bug?
An issue occurs when one wants, on one hand, to have more than five "local" glossaries and a main glossary (glossaries packages) and, on the other hand, to use also biblatex and tcolorbox with its ...
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Advice on organizing an introductory workshop (LaTeX 0.5)
I was challenged to make a small 2-3 hours workshop of LaTeX for my fellow PhD students (STEM field). I do not consider myself a LaTeX power user but I've spent my fair time playing with LaTeX but I'm ...
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Citing only the toplevel work/work of works
How can I cite only a toplevel work with biber/biblatex?
the idea is to have a literature.bib containing the real entries eg
@Online{stack:tex,
title = {\tex},
url = {https://tex.stackexchange....
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Compile LaTeX file to produce main document and references as separate files using BibLaTeX/Biber
I am using the BibLaTeX package, with the Biber backend for producing a proposal for a grant. However this grant agency (like a few others) requires a separate file for the main proposal and the ...
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Special settings for entries with author annotations
For all entries with author annotations, I would like to print all author names and a title. For all other entries, I would like to abbreviate too many author names with et. al. and also omit the ...
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Hyperref: log hyperlinks which breaks over pages. Code working for standard bibliography but not for biblatex
Is there a standard solution to log broken hyperlinks over 2 pages? I do not want/prefer them in my document, and it would be nice if I get them outputted to the log, so I can grep on it, instead of ...
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Adapting authoryear-dw to a specific citation and bibliography style
I am trying to adapt the authoryear-dw style to the specific requirements for assignments at my university. They look like this:
Citations as Footnotes, incl. a first full and shorttitle citations, ...
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Changing Citation Format bib latex (In collection, PhD Thesis)
I am a new LaTeX user. I work with TeXShop for Mac and BibDesk for citations (PhD Thesis). I use the package biblatex.
Following the package info I was able to adapt several details of the verbose ...
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Indexing complex [postnote] contents with biblatex
I am currently using biblatex to produce an index of ancient authors, like so:-
Author,
On Conundrums,
II, 77.3--5, 1
II, 77.10--12, 2
II, 100, 5--6, 3
Where II is the volume number of ...
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Refer to complex note-like citations
I have recently asked this question about complex note like citations:
(How to achieve full compression of references with biber and add comments to grouped citations?)
There, I was looking for a ...
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biblatex-chicago, cmsdate=both with same origdate and date
On the subject of the date field in the author-date style, the biblatex-chicago manual states on p. 87:
If the original publication dates — in the origdate field — are the same, and the reprint dates ...
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BibLaTeX, vim-latex and \xxxcites
He, the vim-latex module for vim, provides a very nice feature: inserting a reference with the F9 key, which opens a window where you can look for the reference to insert. However, it does not seem to ...
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How to parse BIB file to a known TeX structure?
I'm becoming a TeXist by profession these days. This is the first real challenge from my new employer: I was asked if I could take a look at this problem and improve the current state, if it's ...
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Arrange Bibliography in table
I am using the code as suggested by Audrey in this post in order to produce a tabular bibliography and adapted it as follows.
Naturally, the authors' names should be printed in the first column and ...
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Document Bibliographies with CJK and Pandoc
Very new to LaTeX and only limited exposure via pandoc,
I'm converting markdown English article that contains Japanese and Korean bibliography sources to PDF via LaTeX using pandoc, which allows the ...
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