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How do I add icons in front of bibliography entries?
Since biblatex already includes some custom fields, it's probably easier to use one of them rather than creating a brand new one, which requires quite a bit more work. In my original answer, I used ...
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How can I remove all unused entries in a .bib file?
bibtool can do it.
First build your document. Then, run
bibtool -x <jobname>.aux -o <outputfile>.bib
The tool assumes you don't just want to clobber the original database, so it extracts ...
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Resolving conflict between apalike and amsbook
As cfr has observed this is unrelated to tcolorbox The issue is that apalike is incompatible with amsbook. In particular it is not expecting that un-numbered \chapter* entries are written to the ...
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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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persistent issues with overfull \hbox in bibliography
In 12 pages of bibliography you have just one entry that is less than 1pt over full
Overfull \hbox (0.99489pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 71--71
[]\T1/cmr/m/n/12 (-20) Garg, Shilpa et al. ^^P ...
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Remove punctuation before addendum
\documentclass{scrbook}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[autostyle=true,german=quotes]{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=sbl,citepages=separate,backend=biber,sblfootnotes=false,ibidpage=true,...
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How to create a custom `.bbx` file to extend a default BibLaTeX style?
You don't always have to create a new style with .bbx and .cbx files if you want to modify the bibliography/citation output in your document. For one-off modifications it is often easier to just put a ...
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Correct BibLaTeX+Biber sorting when the same author published using different given names
The question Alan Munn linked is relevant, but simply getting the sorting you want can be done, I think, just with sortname. The advantage of this is that it only overrides author or editor when ...
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How can I provide a bibliography file along with a package?
For bibatex, the files are found by latex along $TEXINPUTS so you may simply distribute the .bib along with the package, they are on the same search path so the .bib will be found if the package is, ...
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How to make the separation between bibliography label and entry auto-adjust (BibLaTeX)
A bit hackish (I am sure there is far better methods) but how about this?
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
%CONTROL SEPARATION BETWEEN SECTION LABEL AND SECTION NAME
\makeatletter
\renewcommand*{...
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Fancy bibliography items
With the syntax \setbeamertemplate{bibliography item}[foo] you can load a predefined template with the name foo. This template needs to be defined via \defbeamertemplate{bibliography item}{foo}{...}.
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Getting straight single quotes in a bibliography
Use a different name. I show two possibilities: with \straightquote the current font shape is not taken into consideration; with \varstraightquote it is.
\begin{filecontents*}[overwrite]{\jobname.bib}
...
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Software-generated bibliographic entries: common errors and other mistakes to check before use
Misuse of eprint fields
I very often get .bib files which put the URL into not only the url field, but also eprint, eprinttype and sometimes eprintclass as well. Apparently, some repositories/journals ...
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Referencing Supplemental Material for Physical Review Letters
In the bibliography file, add an entry
@misc{supp,
note = "See Supplemental Material at
URL-will-be-inserted-by-publisher for the data
of the experiments."
}
Replace the data of ...
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Physical Review Letters supporting information separate PDF
PRL content guidelines say
Cite the manuscript’s Supplemental Material in the reference list as follows:
See Supplemental Material at [URL will be inserted by publisher] for [give brief description ...
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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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Missing Space after Year in apa-Style for biblatex in beamer
This problem is discussed in https://github.com/plk/biblatex-apa/issues/212 and will be resolved in a future version of biblatex-apa.
It is caused by an unfortunate combination of punctuation macros ...
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biblatex: Change "ed." to "eds." if more than one editor
The patch to byeditor+others only contains an explicit \bibstring{editor} and does not check if there are multiple editors. This could be changed by copying the relevant bits from the editor+others ...
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compiled inbook entry looks completely broken
I'd greatly appreciate any and all advice on where I have gone wrong.
You're using the wrong entry type for the entry at hand. You should be using @incollection, not @inbook. And the name of the ...
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How can I make the "References" into Sans Serif
You just need
\renewcommand\familydefault{\sfdefault}
And you can remove \textsf and \sffamily from your .tex file.
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How \printbibliography works?
I indicated the errors in the source.
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\usepackage{csquotes} % this is used by biblatex
\begin{filecontents*}{bibliography_contents.bib}
@book{1,
...
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Unwanted but invisible unicode character
You can easily make the error go away: just open the .bib file in text editor find Laura, back delete from the , and retype Laura, without the control character
However
U+FFFC is OBJECT REPLACEMENT ...
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Nocite(*) doesn't work if you literally don't cite anything?
Your particular example fails because the csquotes package isn't loaded. This package is generally recommended to be used with biblatex, although it's not strictly speaking required. But the biblatex-...
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How to include a bib file into my latex file?
Welcome, you could use biber:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[style=authoryear, backend=biber]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{bibliography.bib} ...
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How to declare a citation command that doesn't list its entry in the bibliography?
Perhaps I could set default options for the \printbibliography command
directly in my style files, but I didn't find any documentation or
implementation about this approach.
\...
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Order of date biblatex
If you use the actual apa style, then the date will be formatted correctly.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{csquotes} % recommended
\usepackage[english]{babel} % recommended (or with an ...
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Change formatted citation call-out produced by 'alpha' bibliography style
You asked
Is there a way to change this from [hd] to [JD17]?
Not really, at least not with BibTeX and the venerable alpha bibliography style.
Once you fix a number of (mainly minor) glitches in the ...
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How is the argument (#1) in \DeclareNameWrapperFormat interpretted?
The name wrapper format (same for field and list wrappers) is used during \printnames (\printfield, \printlist) to format the complete printed output. The idea is that you can apply formatting like \...
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with llncs.cls, using babel turns compression of bibliographic references off, and dropping babel turns it on
By default, babel redefines some macros related to cross references and bibliographies for they to allow shorthands in labels. Sadly, this change may interfere with other packages, so an option to ...
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How to make the separation between bibliography label and entry auto-adjust (BibLaTeX)
Biblatex provides a hook for code which should be executed at the beginning of the bibliography environment. This hook can be used to change the definition of the item label. I modified the example ...
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