[Tex/LaTex] Author name and first name order with biblatex

authorbiblatex

Explanations:

I'm trying to migrate from natbib to biblatex.
I don't know if it's a good idea but according to some links under, it seems like.

Anyway, I'm having some small issues yet:

When there is several authors to some paper, in the References, the first author is written so:

Robert, J.

-> last name first and first letter of first name.
OK. It's what I want.

But then, all other authors are listed so:

J. Haking, and Matthew Haris

so first letter of (or full) first name and then last name.
So it's the inverse as the first author!

Questions:

Question 1: same arrangement in names;

I wonder if it's the normal behavior and how could I have the same arrangement, i.e. Last Name first, and then first letter of first name for every authors listed?

Question 2: get initial of first names;

Is there a way to force an initial-like display for the first name instead of the full first name?
I currently have a disgusting mix of these 2…
Yes, I know, I can (should) make this properly within the *.bib file…
But then, if I write down the full first name in the *.bib file and I would like the abbreviated form in my References, how could I achieve that?

Question 3: same author for 2 papers;

I have once the same author for two different papers. Fine.
But the second one is figured out so:

— (2005). "Title" ….

There is a big hyphen instead of the author name. I guess it's because it's already in the reference just above, but I find it ugly.
Again, is this behavior normal and is there a way to force the author name to be written here?

Code:

I'm currently calling biblatex in the preamble like:

% Biblatex bibligraphy:
\usepackage[
backend=bibtex,
style=authoryear,
citestyle=authoryear-comp,
natbib=true,
sorting=nyvt, % https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/51434/biblatex-citation-order
doi=false,isbn=false,url=false
]
{biblatex}
\setlength\bibitemsep{0.64\baselineskip}
% \bibliography{<mybibfile>}% ONLY selects .bib file; syntax for version <= 1.1b
\addbibresource{biblio.bib}% Syntax for version >= 1.2
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

And in the document at the right place where I want the References:

\newpage{}
\markboth{References}{References}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{References} 
\nocite{*}
% Biblatex bibligraphy:
\printbibliography%[]

Useful links:

bibtex vs. biber and biblatex vs. natbib
What to do to switch to biblatex?
Biblatex citation order

Natbib biblio' styles: https://fr.sharelatex.com/learn/Natbib_bibliography_styles
Natbib citation style: https://fr.sharelatex.com/learn/Natbib_citation_styles
Biblatex biblio' styles: https://fr.sharelatex.com/learn/Biblatex_bibliography_styles
Biblatex citation styles: https://fr.sharelatex.com/learn/Biblatex_citation_styles

Update:

MWE:

test.tex content:

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,twoside]{report}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[british,UKenglish,USenglish,english,american]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[
backend=bibtex,
style=authoryear,
citestyle=authoryear-comp,
natbib=true,
sorting=nyvt,
doi=false,isbn=false,url=false
]
{biblatex}
\setlength\bibitemsep{0.64\baselineskip}
\addbibresource{ref.bib}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\begin{document}

\newpage{}
\markboth{References}{References}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{References} 
\nocite{*}
\printbibliography

\end{document} 
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

ref.bib content:

@INPROCEEDINGS{item1,
author={F. LastName1 and G. LastName2 and Haris LastName3},
booktitle={1574 International Conference on LaTeX },
title={Kings in Europe},
year={1574},
pages={2-4},
month={Jun}
},

@inproceedings{item2,
    title       =    "Trees are not animals",
    author      =    "Mike Haking and John Roberts",
    year        =    "1575",
    month       =    "November",
    pages       =    "18--20",
    volume      =    "8",
    booktitle   =    "IEEE International Conference on E-Documents processing",
},

@inproceedings{item3,
    title       =    "Travel through time",
    author      =    "Mike Haking and John Roberts",
    year        =    "2098",
    month       =    "May",
    pages       =    "4--8",
    volume      =    "1",
    booktitle   =    "American Conference on Time Traveling"
}

Results in:

Best Answer

As I found some answers, I post them here:

Answers:

Answers 1: same arrangement in names;

It's the normal behavior for style authoryear.
To change it, one has to add this line in the preamble after importing biblatex:

\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{last-first}

Answers 2: get initial of first names;

The way to get only initials for first names is to add this in the options [] of biblatex when importing it:

firstinits=true,

Answers 3: same author for 2 papers;

The way to get rid of the hyphen for multiple same authors is to add this in the options [] of biblatex when importing it:

dashed=false,

This results in:

Source:

These tips (as many others) come from: Guidelines for customizing biblatex styles Thanks to lockstep.

Edited so \footcite now works.

A reasonably effective solution that preserves many of biblatex's featuers is provided by adjusting the way the year gets printed in citations. This can be done by redifining the commands associated to cite:year and cite:extrayear. This has the advantage of preserving the ibidem feature.

The code below includes a sample bibliography and then the main file with the redefined citation code.

\begin{filecontents}{test.bib}
@Article{Test,
author = {Author, A. N.},
title = {Article title},
year = 2005,
pages = {10-20},
journal = {Jour.},
vol = {100}
}
@Article{Test2,
author = {Author, A. N.},
title = {Second article},
year = 2005,
pages = {10-20},
journal = {Jour.},
vol = {100}
}
@Article{Test3,
author = {Author, A. B.},
title = {Third article},
year = 2005,
pages = {10-20},
journal = {Jour.},
vol = {100}
}
@Article{Test4,
author = {Author, A. N.},
title = {Fourth article},
year = 2007,
pages = {10-20},
journal = {Jour.},
vol = {100}
}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=authoryear-icomp,autocite=plain]{biblatex}

\addbibresource{test.bib}

\renewbibmacro*{cite:labelyear+extrayear}{%
  \iffieldundef{labelyear}
    {}
    {\iftoggle{blx@footnote}
      {\printtext[bibhyperref]{%
       \printfield{labelyear}%
       \printfield{extrayear}}}
      {\footnote{\printtext[bibhyperref]{%
       \printfield{labelyear}%
       \printfield{extrayear}}}}}}

\renewbibmacro*{cite:extrayear}{%
  \iffieldundef{extrayear}
    {}
    {\iftoggle{blx@footnote}
      {\printtext[bibhyperref]{\printfield{extrayear}}}%
      {\footnote{\printtext[bibhyperref]{%
      \printfield{labelyear}%
      \printfield{extrayear}}}}}}

\renewcommand{\compcitedelim}{\space}

\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\autocite{Test} and
\autocite[page 3]{Test}.
Some text \parencite{Test2}.

Here is a footnote citation\footcite{Test}.

\autocite{Test,Test4,Test3}.

\printbibliography
\end{document}

Sample output

As the above shows this works with \autocite, \parencite and accepts their optional arguments. In this style \autocite is the same as \cite.

I haven't demonstrated \textcite, though its ouptut may be useful sometimes; \footcite has also been set up to work, thanks to biblatex's blx@footnote toggle that detects whether we are in a footnote or not.

The code also takes care of most multiple citations \cite{ref1,ref2}. However, there is a spurious comma, if ref1 and ref2 are two publications from the same author in the same year. Fixing that requires, more substanitial rewriting of the citation style file: each of the commands \cite, \textcite, etc. in author-icomp.cbx contains an explicit comma via \setunit{\addcomma}, that needs to be deleted.

Original solution

Here is a repost of the original solution, as this apparently helps the OP best. It simply defines a newcommand \citepfy (plain-foot-year) that calls \citeauthor followed by a modified \footcite command that produces only the year. It does not accept any of the optional arguments cite commands in biblatex usually do.

\begin{filecontents}{b.bib}
@Article{Test,
author = {Author, A. N.},
title = {Article title},
year = 2005,
pages = {10-20},
journal = {Jour.},
vol = {100}
}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=authoryear-icomp]{biblatex}

\addbibresource{b.bib}

\newcommand{\citepfy}[1]{\citeauthor{#1}\footyearcite{#1}}
\DeclareCiteCommand{\footyearcite}[\mkbibfootnote]
  {\usebibmacro{cite:init}%
   \usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \usebibmacro{citeyear}}
  {}
  {\usebibmacro{cite:postnote}}

\begin{document}
\citepfy{Test}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

Sample output

[Tex/LaTex] Biblatex author name missing (dashed=false and style=authoryear)

As I was suggesting in my comment, the compilation issue relies on the .bib file. Also, as @moewe identified, the use of the @proceedings category does not contain an author field. Therefore, it should be replaced either by @inproceedings or put the author in the editor field.

New compilation with the appropriate .bib file syntax:

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
    @inproceedings{Taylor2004a,
    author = {Thornely-Taylor, R.M.},
    title = {The prediction of vibration, groundborne and structure-radiated noise from railways using finite difference methods},
    year = {2004},
    maintitle = {Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Railway Noise},
    eventtitle = {IWRN8},
    eventdate = {2004-09-08/2004-09-11},
    location = {Buxton, UK},
    url = {http://www.ruperttaylor.com/RMTT_IWRN8_6.pdf},
    }

    @inproceedings{Taylor2004b,
    author = {Thornely-Taylor, R.M.},
    title = {The prediction of vibration, groundborne and structure-radiated noise from railways using finite difference methods  --  Part 1  --  theory},
    maintitle = {Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics},
    year = {2004},
    volume = {26},
    part = {2},
    pages = {69--79},
    url = {http://www.ruperttaylor.com/RTT_IOA_SC2004.pdf},
    }

\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

The main document simply being:

\begin{document}
    \textcite{Taylor2004a}
    \textcite{Taylor2004b}
    \printbibliography
\end{document}

The output obtained:

References output

[Tex/LaTex] Author name and first name order with biblatex

Explanations:

Questions:

Question 1: same arrangement in names;

Question 2: get initial of first names;

Question 3: same author for 2 papers;

Code:

Useful links:

Update:

MWE:

Results in:

Best Answer

Answers:

Answers 1: same arrangement in names;

Answers 2: get initial of first names;

Answers 3: same author for 2 papers;

This results in:

Source:

Other useful links:

Related Question

Explanations:

Questions:

Question 1: same arrangement in names;

Question 2: get initial of first names;

Question 3: same author for 2 papers;

Code:

Useful links:

Update:

MWE:

Results in:

Best Answer

Answers:

Answers 1: same arrangement in names;

Answers 2: get initial of first names;

Answers 3: same author for 2 papers;

This results in:

Source:

Other useful links:

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Second solution

Original solution

[Tex/LaTex] Biblatex author name missing (dashed=false and style=authoryear)

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