New answers tagged biblatex
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What is the recommended way to cite papers in LNCS volumes in Bib(La)TeX?
In the standard styles/data model the difference between @inproceedings and @incollection isn't actually all that big.
@inproceedings has extra fields for venue, eventdate and eventtitle to specify ...
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How do I get biblatex and biber to work with MikTex?
After some initial problems I was able to run biber from the command line and read the messages. It was consistently stopping on the first syntax error and writing a message referring to a temporary ...
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Why is \textcite not producing “author (year)”?
The styles of the biblatex-chicago bundle are a bit special: They should not be loaded via \usepackage[style=<style>]{biblatex}. Instead you should load them via the wrapper package biblatex-...
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Biblatex: Adjust case of authors family names
The .bbx file contains a command:
\newcommand*{\autorenschriftart}{\scshape}%
The .cbx file contains the command:
\newcommand*{\citeautorenschriftart}{\scshape}%
These macros are what introduces the ...
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Adding biblatex bibliography sections to table of contents
As commented on the original post I arrive at the desired format using standard sectioning, but for biblatex alone I guess I am missing one more level i.e. "heading=subsubbibintoc". The ...
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Change styles for biblatex bibliography headings in memoir
You just need to redefine the relevant bibheading:
\defbibheading{subbibintoc}[\refname]{%
\setsecheadstyle{\normalsize\bfseries\scshape\MakeLowercase}
\section*{#1}%
\addcontentsline{toc}{...
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Change the author name order in Biblatex APA style
As mentioned in the comments, biblatex-apa implements the complex requirements of APA style. It was not written with customisability in mind. Even changes that look small and "should be easy"...
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Hanging indent with biblatex tikzpicture node bibliography is offset, how can it be controlled?
The main issue here is that there were slight differences in the setup between the usual label width measuring and label width measuring for locallabelwidth that meant that in this setting all labels ...
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What does \usebibmacro{bibindex} in BibliographyDrivers do?
The bibmacro bibindex is defined in biblatex.def (ll. 2409-2413 in v3.19). Its definition is
\newbibmacro*{bibindex}{%
\ifbibindex
{\indexnames{labelname}%
\indexfield{indextitle}}
{}}
...
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Hanging indent with biblatex tikzpicture node bibliography is offset, how can it be controlled?
I do not understand your values for the text width, e.g. 20cm, and also for the x|y coordinates. However, maybe this is what you want?
\documentclass[oneside]{book}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage[...
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`biblatex` and `\includestandalone` is causing unexpected indents in a `tikzpicture` nodes printed bibliography
You are inheriting the rather wide labelwidth from a shorthand. You can use the option locallabelwidth to force biblatex to recalculate the width:
\documentclass[11pt,oneside]{article}%
\usepackage{...
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What characters are allowed to use as delimiters for BibTeX keys?
Also note that in the original BibTeX, entries with { } ~ # % \ characters in keys can be crossrefed from another entry (see the following test), though this is not likely to happen in practical.
If ...
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How to specifically underline an author using biblatex (instead of making it bold)
The bit in the quoted code that makes the name bold is the \mkbibbold{#1}, you can replace that with code that underlines #1.
Note that most TeX implementations of underlining have issues with complex ...
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Biblatex use value from a different field as main title
Thanks to the comment by cfr I found the relevant section in the biblatex documentation.
Sec. 4.5.3 Dynamic Modification of Data has an example on how to copy the value of one field to another, unless ...
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Problem with multiple URLs provided in mendeley
Works only for URLs devided by a space.
\documentclass[paper=a5,DIV=16,parskip=half-,fontsize=10pt]{scrreprt}
\usepackage[british]{babel}
\usepackage[autostyle]{csquotes}
\begin{filecontents}[force,...
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Package caption incompatibility: biblatex citecounter double-counts references inside table captions
The content of the caption is processed twice because of the singleline check.
You can either disable the check:
\captionsetup{singlelinecheck=false}
or disable the citetracker during the check. ...
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Biblatex: conjunction translation in \parencite, \cite and \textcite
With the default settings autolang only applies to the bibliography whereas the \cite commands are typeset in the surrounding language. You can use the language option (whose default is autobib) to ...
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Biblatex: conjunction translation in \parencite, \cite and \textcite
Well I'm not sure if I like that, after all the text is in italian, but this here should work
\DeclareNameWrapperFormat{labelname}{%
\iffieldundef{langid}{#1}{\foreignlanguage[captions]{\thefield{...
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Verbatim date entry
Use year (which is a literal field) instead of date.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\begin{filecontents}{literature.bib}
@incollection{bo1986,
author={Bo, Ming},
title = {...
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Repeating initials in quotations autocite
Since you have giveninits=true, active, which shortens given names to initials, this is as easy as changing the name format of labelname to given-family.
\documentclass[british]{article}
\usepackage[...
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How to print month numerically in biblatex?
Defining \DeclareFieldFormat{twodigits}{\ifnum#1<10 0#1\else #1\fi} and then using \printfield[twodigits]{month} works. I'm not sure if this is the ideal format to use here, but it works. With the ...
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Prior working macro to bold author names, now causes complex errors
The macro you originally used had deep issues even before biblatex got updated. Its syntax was always wrong and if things worked, that was only only by accident. It was also quite destructive w.r.t. ...
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Zotero, Biblatex
Even though there is some evidence to the contrary, questions asking for and answers providing the implementation of a fully-fledged style are usually a pretty bad fit for this site. Such answers take ...
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Biblatex: Formatting @incollection
Welcome to TeX.SE!
To achieve the desired bibliography formatting, you'll need to make some modifications to your existing BibLaTeX settings and create custom formats for the @incollection entry type.
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Disambiguate author-year citations without adding unnecessary initials to other authors
This really needs a new couple of options for uniquename. This is implemented in the DEV versions of biblatex (3.20) and biber (2.20) which you can get on SourceForge for now. The option you want is ...
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biblatex: capitalize ß to ẞ, not SS, in bibliographies
If you use babel and (n)german you can set the casing to eszett:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{filecontents}[force]{testss.bib}
@Unpublished{Heussner2023,
author = {{Heußner}, Ludwig},
note = {...
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Is there any bibLaTeX style that has superscript numbers?
The standard numeric styles implement the command \supercite for superscript citations (without brackets by default; they look pretty much like footnote numbers, but very much aren't).
Because it is ...
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Journal name not showing up with custom citation style when BibTeX field type is "journal"
journal is a bit of a tricky field. It isn't really part of the standard data model. Instead it is resolved as an alias for journaltitle via the default driver source map (ll. 1339-1371 in biblatex....
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Page break in the middle of Biblatex source item
Since I didn't get an answer, I went back to it myself. Actually it is quite simple, you just have to come up with it.
\usepackage{needspace}
% The number determines how many lines of space the entry ...
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