[Tex/LaTex] Biblatex: Authors in small caps and bold in bibliography

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I am using scrreprt KOMA-class with biblatex.

I have my citations and bibliography set up as desired:

However, one detail is missing: I would like the authors in the bibliography to be both small caps AND bold (right now, they are small caps only.)

Is there a way to achieve this?

I have spent some time doing trial and error and scanning the biblatex documentation, but did not find what I needed.

Thanks in advance for your help.

\documentclass[12pt, twoside, openright, chapterprefix, numbers=noenddot]{scrreprt}

\usepackage[left=2cm,right=2cm,top=2cm,bottom=2cm,headheight=15pt,includeheadfoot]{geometry} 

\usepackage[automark,headsepline=off]{scrlayer-scrpage}  % use document with \pagestyle{scrheadings}

%%% Deutsche Zeichen und Schrift
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel} % deutsche Trennregeln
\usepackage{lmodern}    % fixes bug with \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}; ändert Schriftart zudem in Latin Modern
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}   % für europäische Autoren ratsam; % wichtig für Trennung von Wörtern mit Umlauten
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
%\usepackage[ansinew]{inputenc}
\usepackage{textcomp}

\usepackage[T1,hyphens]{url}
\usepackage{hyperref}   
\hypersetup{colorlinks=true, linktocpage=true,  linktoc=all,    
    %linkcolor=beierblau, 
    citecolor=beierblau, filecolor=beierblau, urlcolor=beierblau, breaklinks=false,
    bookmarksopen=true, colorlinks, linkcolor = black}
\usepackage[all]{hypcap}        % needed to help hyperlinks direct correctly;
\usepackage[numbered]{bookmark}

\usepackage{xcolor}
\definecolor{beierblau}{RGB}{0,0,255}


%%% bibliography
\usepackage[style=authoryear, backend=biber,
%alphabetic --> see https://de.sharelatex.com/learn/biblatex_bibliography_styles; https://de.sharelatex.com/learn/Biblatex_citation_styles
 refsegment=chapter, % benutze automatisch Kapitel als Biobliographie-Abschnitte... (refsegment makes sure that identical references have the same label throughout the whole document; as opposed to refsection)
% scauthors = true 
 ]{biblatex}
\ExecuteBibliographyOptions{firstinits=true,maxcitenames=1,maxbibnames=999,isbn=false,doi=false,url=false,labeldate=true,uniquelist=minyear}

%% set borders
\setlength{\bibitemsep}{12pt}
\setlength{\bibhang}{0cm}
%\setlength{\bibhang}{0.2cm} rückt mehrere Zeilen ein

%% fix sorting
\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{last-first}

%% no "quotes" around titles of chapters/article titles; text-style of title in bibliography 
\DeclareFieldFormat[article, book, inbook, incollection, inproceedings, misc, thesis, unpublished]{title}{\textit{#1}}    % \textit for italic style titles; \textnormal for regular text

%% titles of articels and incollections not italic
\DeclareFieldFormat[article]{journaltitle}{\textnormal{#1}}
\DeclareFieldFormat[incollection]{booktitle}{\textnormal{#1}}

%% separation style between authors
\AtBeginBibliography{%
    \renewcommand*{\multinamedelim}{\addsemicolon\space}%
    \renewcommand*{\finalnamedelim}{\addsemicolon\space}%
}

\DefineBibliographyStrings{ngerman}{%
    andothers = {et\addspace al\adddotspace},%
    andmore = {et\addspace al\adddotspace},%
}

%% Authors in small caps in citation and bibliography
\renewcommand*{\mkbibnamelast}[1]{\textsc{#1}}
\renewcommand*{\mkbibnameprefix}[1]{\textsc{#1}}

%% Format of punctuation after author+year
\renewcommand*{\labelnamepunct}{
%   \mkbibbold
    {\adddotspace}}     % \addcolon\space

%%Add bib resource
\addbibresource{Literatur/citavi.bib} 


%%% Example bibliography
\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
    @book{Giancoli,
        Author    = {Douglas C. Giancoli},
        Publisher = {Pearson},
        Title     = {Physics for Scientists \& Engineers},
        Year      = {2014},
        Date-Added = {2015-10-05 12:23:12 +0000},
        Date-Modified = {2015-10-05 12:23:50 +0000},
    }
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}


\begin{document}

\chapter{Test-Kapitel}
Some \cite{Giancoli} text \autocite{Giancoli}

\printbibliography[segment=\therefsegment, heading=subbibintoc, title={Literatur}]  


\end{document}

Best Answer

To change the used font for the family name of the entries in the bibliography only use the following just before your \printbibliogrphy:

\renewcommand*{\mkbibnamefamily}[1]{\textsc{\textbf{#1}}}
\renewcommand*{\mkbibnameprefix}[1]{\textsc{\textbf{#1}}}

Note that the correct macro name is \mkbibnamefamily not \mkbibnamelast. The latter is just for legacy support and doesn't work after \begin{document}. But lmodern doesn't support bold smallcaps.

The biblatex commands for the formatting of names are:

\mkbibnamefamily
\mkbibnamegiven
\mkbibnameprefix
\mkbibnamesuffix

Note: To get something that looks like bold smallcaps, you might use the contour package if your font doesn't support them, but be aware that this might result in ugly looking output:

\usepackage{contour}
\contourlength{0.01em}% adjust how bold it'll get
\renewcommand*{\mkbibnamefamily}[1]{\contour{black}{\textsc{#1}}}
\renewcommand*{\mkbibnameprefix}[1]{\contour{black}{\textsc{#1}}}

This results in the following (upper is with contour, the lower is \textbf{Giancoli} for comparison)

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Your question requires a two-part answer.

\sc and \bf (and \it) are deprecated because, as you have noticed, they override each other. Use either

\textit{...}
\textbf{...}
\textsc{...}

{\itshape ...}
{\bfseries ...}
{\scshape ...}

instead.

However, not all fonts contain italic and/or bold small caps (when they even contain small caps).

(Also, italic and small caps usually don't combine at all by default, requiring \usepackage{slantsc} to do so.)

When you load the T1 font encoding, you're replacing the default Computer Modern fonts by CM-Super, a larger but lower-quality set of fonts that look mostly identical but contain many more glyphs. In older TeX distributions, you might even end up with bitmap fonts in your output.

The Latin Modern fonts are a better alternative (\usepackage{lmodern}), but they unfortunately don't contain bold small caps.

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