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How to get correct grammar in the bibliography of a German document when the editor is an association?

If you are looking for a one-shot solution, you could add execute={\expandafter\def\csname abx@lstr@byeditor\endcsname{Herausgegeben vom}} to your bib-entry. A more general solution would need ...
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Remove dash for repeated author in biblatex-chicago

Update (March 2021) In version 2.1 (2021-03-27), biblatex-chicago introduced the dashed option which can be set to false to print repeated names in the bibliography (just like in biblatex's standard ...
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How to identify Illustrator in bibtex?

editor roles can be defined by defining three bibstrings for standard biblatex (see Create new editorial role "organizer" in biblatex, biblatex: Adding an editor as a series editor, not ...
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Ordering .bib file alphabetically

This is possible with biber's tool mode. Suppose your .bib is "test.bib" and you have the following in "test.conf" (this is just the config file version of the "nyt" sorting scheme - see the biblatex/...
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How to get correct grammar in the bibliography of a German document when the editor is an association?

This is one of the limitations of biblatex's localisation system. As a dirty fix you can include 'dem' into the editor field editor = {{dem Fachverband Latexology} and Doe, John}, This will give ...
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Cite title and author with one command

We can define two new cite commands \ppracite and \pprbcite. \DeclareCiteCommand{\ppracite} {\usebibmacro{prenote}} {\ifciteindex {\indexfield{indextitle}} {}% \printfield[citetitle]{...
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Remove publisher's address from references, Chicago style

There are two issues here address is just a convenience alias for BibTeX compatibility. Internally the field is called location (address is automatically converted to location by Biber), so if you ...
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I have two identical LaTeX files, with different file names. Only one yields "undefined references." Why is this happening?

(I'm just summarizing the essence of some of the previously-posted comments, so that this query can be considered to have received a valid answer.) When compiling a LaTeX document that contains a ...
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CJK Bibliography Problem, Biblatex-Chicago

In biblatex 3.3 the name formatting code changed quite dramatically, see Biblatex 3.3 name formatting. In your case that means that we need \forcsvlist{\listadd\nameaffixlist}{Junior,Senior} \...
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Include original title for translated works (biblatex-chicago)

You can use biblatex's related features. For that you create a separate entry for the original work with the option dataonly, so it doesn't appear in the bibliography itself. You then refer from the ...
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Biblatex-Chicago and non-US quotation style?

You are looking for \DefineBibliographyExtras{english}{\stdpunctuation} biblatex-chicago maps both english and american to cms-american.lbx. cms-american.lbx inherits its bibliography extras from ...
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How to add a primary literature bibliography

Update Here's a version that keeps the author and title separate. It copes with different languages OK. I've also kept your source map and used the source map to set the sortkey to title so that ...
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year vs date in biblatex

While biblatex has made its fair share of backwards incompatible changes (prime example: Biblatex 3.3 name formatting, but I don't think there have been many incompatible changes w.r.t. the input in ...
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How to make Chicago Manual Style - Notes and Bibliography style work?

Unless you have a very good reason not to, you should load the biblatex-chicago styles via the dedicated biblatex-chicago package. Use \usepackage[notes,backend=biber]{biblatex-chicago} instead of \...
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How to identify Illustrator in bibtex?

Here's what I get from a slightly modified bib entry. \begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib} @Book{thompson1972fearandloathing, author = {Hunter S. Thompson}, title = {Fear and ...
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biblatex-chicago problem after update

Update biblatex v3.15a with the fix for this bug was released on 2020-08-23 and made it to CTAN and into TeX live (you want at least revision 56165) on the same night. Update your system if you are ...
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Printing "ibid" for biblatex-chicago authordate style

We can redefine \footcite specifically to write "ibid." with \DeclareCiteCommand{\footcite}[\mkbibfootnote] {\renewbibmacro*{cite:ibid}{\printtext[bibhyperref]{\bibstring[\mkibid]{ibidem}}}% \...
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How to get et al. beginning with the 2nd citation with biblatex-chicago

On way to tackle this problem is to 1) set the default number of cites names maxcitenames=1 2) and for all cites, occuring the first time, increase this number \AtEveryCitekey{\ifciteseen{}{\...
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multiple authors (names) of \textcites as possessive

All you need to do is add an aswellas bibliography string (with definitions) then change the definition of \textcitedelim to use aswellas instead of and for the delimiter before the final citation if ...
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biblatex: Citation not showing correctly (n.d.)

Given discussion in the comments, substituting Year = {2010} by date = {2010} should be enough.
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Suppress URL if DOI is present in biblatex-chicago

Unless I misunderstand the question, wouldn't adding the option \usepackage[doi=only]{biblatex-chicago} or \usepackage[url=false]{biblatex-chicago} work (the latter would suppress all URLs)? See 4....
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CJK Bibliography Problem, Biblatex-Chicago author-date style

biblatex 3.8/Biber 2.8 allow you to fully customize the unqiuename function. See https://github.com/plk/biblatex/issues/623 for technical discussions. 93-nameparts.tex features an extended discussion ...
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Clear urldate field manually

Internally, date-like fields are decomposed by the backend (Biber or BibTeX) into their dateparts for easier handling within biblatex. So for biblatex there is no such thing as urldate, but there are ...
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Remove empty (date) brackets in bibliography

An alternative to setting date=year is to delete the month and date info in the date field via Biber sourcemapping \DeclareSourcemap{ \maps[datatype=bibtex]{ \map{ \step[fieldset=month, ...
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Classical/Arabic author giveninits exception

You could locally set giveninits=false for Arabic names. We only need to define giveninits as an entry option for this to work. \documentclass{book} \usepackage[notes,backend=biber,giveninits=true]{...
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How to compress years 2001a-n in author-date biblatex style?

As it turns out this is a bit more complicated than I initially thought. It is possible to sort this out for the standard style authoryear-comp as shown below, but I'm a bit more sceptical about ...
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Fixing formatting of journals with only issue numbers when using period to separate journal volume and issue number in biblatex-chicago

Only one small modification is needed: Use \setunit*{\adddot} instead of \setunit{\adddot}. The starred version only inserts the punctuation command into the buffer if the last \print... command ...
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Rearranging and reformatting elements of a biblatex-chicago citation

Since you state that you are in the final days of a book, my suggestion is to only adjust the absolute minimum to get what you want. To do more in a complex style like biblatex-chicago risks producing ...
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how to remove unnecessary parentheses?

You just want \fullcite. The command \footfullcite is for a footnote full citation in text and not inside \footnote (or \footnotetext). \begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib} @article{Chua1999, ...
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pandoc tex to docx with biblatex

Pandoc supports only a subset of biblatex cite commands (this is a known issue, cf. https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/2335). supported: \autocite \autocite* \cite \parencite \Parencite \footcite ...
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