[Tex/LaTex] BibLaTeX citing style

biblatex

I'm currently trying to setup a document with the bibliography made with biblatex. I have used the template/example from this website
khirevich.

Everything seems to be going fine, but in his template you either cite a reference with 1, [2] and so on, or with a superscript number, and then the reference as a footnote. I would like to have an inline reference, like: (Number, Author, year) or something like that. But not just the number, and not as a footnote.

My example code is currently this right now:

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%   \cite (citation number of normal size in square brackets, no cite info in footnote);
%   \superfullcite (superscript citation number, full cite info in footnote);
%   \sjcitep (superscript citation number, short cite info in footnote).
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}

\usepackage[danish]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[margin=1.4in]{geometry}
\usepackage{amsmath, amsthm, amssymb, amsbsy}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\usepackage[hyperref=true,
            url=false,
            isbn=false,
            backref=true,
            style=custom-numeric-comp,
            maxcitenames=3,
            maxbibnames=100,
            backend=bibtex, % while checking on one of my (newest) systems, this option was needed to generate bibliography
            block=none]{biblatex}

\usepackage{hyperref}

% back reference text preceding the page number ("see p.")
\DefineBibliographyStrings{english}{%
    backrefpage  = {se s.}, % for single page number
    backrefpages = {se ss.} % for multiple page numbers
}

% the followings activate 'custom-english-ordinal-sscript.lbx'
% in order to print ordinal 'edition' suffixes as superscripts,
% and adjusts (reduces) spacing between suffix and following "ed."
\DeclareLanguageMapping{english}{custom-english-ordinal-sscript}
\DeclareFieldFormat{edition}%
                   {\ifinteger{#1}%
                    {\mkbibordedition{#1}\addthinspace{}ed.}%
                    {#1\isdot}}

% removes period at the very end of bibliographic record
\renewcommand{\finentrypunct}{}

% removes period after DOI and suppresses capitalization
% of the word following DOI ("See p. xx" -> "see p. xx")
\renewcommand{\newunitpunct}{\addspace\midsentence}

\DeclareFieldFormat{journaltitle}{\mkbibemph{#1},} % italic journal title with comma
\DeclareFieldFormat[inbook,thesis]{title}{\mkbibemph{#1}\addperiod} % italic title with period
\DeclareFieldFormat[article]{title}{#1} % title of journal article is printed as normal text
\DeclareFieldFormat[article]{volume}{\textbf{#1}\addcolon\space} % makes volume of journal bold and adds colon

%%%%%%%%%
% the command \sjcitep defined below prints footnote citation above punctuation
\newlength{\spc} % declare a variable to save spacing value
\newcommand{\sjcitep}[2][]{% new command with two arguments: optional (#1) and mandatory (#2)
        \settowidth{\spc}{#1}% set value of \spc variable to the width of #1 argument
        \addtolength{\spc}{-1.8\spc}% subtract from \spc about two (1.8) of its values making its magnitude negative
        #1% print the optional argument
        \hspace*{\spc}% print an additional negative spacing stored in \spc after #1
        \supershortnotecite{#2}}% print (cite) the mandatory argument
%%%%%%%%%

\bibliography{example_ref_list}  % includes file "example_ref_list.bib" with data on the cited references

\title{Title}
\author{Name}


\begin{document}
\maketitle

\section*{Aronova}
Text text


% prints author names as small caps
\renewcommand{\mkbibnamefirst}[1]{\textsc{#1}}
\renewcommand{\mkbibnamelast}[1]{\textsc{#1}}
\renewcommand{\mkbibnameprefix}[1]{\textsc{#1}}
\renewcommand{\mkbibnameaffix}[1]{\textsc{#1}}

\printbibliography

\end{document}

Sorry for all the comments, but I'm still trying to figure out using this 🙂
So does anyone know what I have to to in order to get inline cites, and not just numbers or footnote references.

Thanks in advance.

Best Answer

Even in a numeric style it might sometimes be helpful to be able to refer to a source by (#, Author, year) not just [#]. The following defines a new cite command to deliver exactly this additional information. This command is as of now neither capable of compressing (authors, numbers) nor ibidem functions.

You can add the following code to your preamble.

\DeclareCiteCommand{\morecite}[\mkbibparens]%
  {\usebibmacro{prenote}}%
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \printtext[bibhyperref]{%
     \printfield{prefixnumber}%
     \printfield{labelnumber}%
     \ifbool{bbx:subentry}
       {\printfield{entrysetcount}}
       {}}%
   \ifnameundef{labelname}%
    {}
    {\setunit{\addcomma\space}%
     \printnames{labelname}}%
   \setunit{\addcomma\space}%
   \printfield{labelyear}}
  {\multicitedelim}%
  {\usebibmacro{postnote}}%

This will declare a new cite command called \morecite that displays the label number, author and year. There is no fancy year disambiguation etc. (if you want those authoryear or friends is for you), since the label number is the ultimate way to identify the sources.

\documentclass[a4paper,american]{article}

\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=custom-numeric-comp,backend=biber]{biblatex}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\ExecuteBibliographyOptions{labelyear}

\DeclareCiteCommand{\morecite}[\mkbibparens]%
  {\usebibmacro{prenote}}%
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \printtext[bibhyperref]{%
     \printfield{prefixnumber}%
     \printfield{labelnumber}%
     \ifbool{bbx:subentry}
       {\printfield{entrysetcount}}
       {}}%
   \ifnameundef{labelname}%
    {}
    {\setunit{\addcomma\space}%
     \printnames{labelname}}%
   \setunit{\addcomma\space}%
   \printfield{labelyear}}
  {\multicitedelim}%
  {\usebibmacro{postnote}}%

\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}  % includes file "example_ref_list.bib" with data on the cited references

\begin{document}
\morecite{westfahl:space} and \morecite{westfahl:frontier}

\printbibliography
\end{document}

yields

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A descending labelnumber in the bibliography is easy to obtain when entries for the subbibliographies are drawn from separate bib files. The problem is addressed in this post.

Like any citation command, \nocite makes bibliographic data available to biblatex. It can't be limited to entrytype a priori unless you pass a list of entry keys that are entrytype-specific. For example:

\nocite{<articlekey1>, <articlekey2>, <articlekey3>, ...}
...
\nocite{<reportkey1>, <reportkey2>, <reportkey3>, ...}

Descending labelnumber with one bib file can be obtained by making the item counters entrytype-specific. An easy way to perform counting and printing by entrytype is to modify \bibbycategory. The code below demonstrates this approach. It assumes that bibliographic data are made available only via \nocite.

Extensions to flexible category definitions and all citation commands are possible. For an illustration, see this previous answer.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=numeric,sorting=ydnt,defernumbers=true]{biblatex}

\DeclareFieldFormat{labelnumber}{\mkbibdesc{#1}}

\makeatletter

% Print labelnumber as actual number, plus item total, minus one
\newrobustcmd{\mkbibdesc}[1]{%
  \number\numexpr\csuse{bbx@itemtotal}+1-#1\relax}

% Initialize category counters
\def\bbx@initcategory#1{\csnumgdef{bbx@count@#1}{0}}
\forlistloop{\bbx@initcategory}{\blx@categories}

% Increment category counters
\def\bbx@countcategory#1{%
  \ifentrytype{#1}
    {\csnumgdef{bbx@count@#1}{\csuse{bbx@count@#1}+1}%
     \addtocategory{#1}{\thefield{entrykey}}%
     \listbreak}
    {}}
\AtDataInput{\forlistloop{\bbx@countcategory}{\blx@categories}}

% Modify \bibbycategory to set item total
\patchcmd{\blx@bibcategory}
  {\blx@key@heading{#1}}
  {\blx@key@heading{#1}%
   \csnumdef{blx@labelnumber@\the\c@refsection}{0}%
   \csnumgdef{bbx@itemtotal}{\csuse{bbx@count@#1}}}
  {}{}

\makeatother

\DeclareBibliographyCategory{article}
\DeclareBibliographyCategory{report}
\DeclareBibliographyCategory{inproceedings}

\defbibheading{bibliography}{\section*{Publications and Presentations}}
\defbibheading{article}{\subsection*{Journal Articles}}
\defbibheading{report}{\subsection*{Reports}}
\defbibheading{inproceedings}{\subsection*{Presentations}}

\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\begin{document}
\nocite{aksin,bertram,chiu,companion,padhye,angenendt,moraux}
\printbibheading
\bibbycategory
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Citing (author, journalabbr., year) needed

First thing to do is to add a field for the journal abbreviation to the article entrytype, journalabbr in the MWE. Therefore you need to declare a datamodel (an extra file; in the MWE I've used filecontents to simulate that) and you have to tell biblatex/biber to use it in the package options.

Then you have to modify the cite command, so it fits your needs. \citep from the authoryear-style (your citestyle) uses the \cite command. There you just have to add a switch, which checks if the field journalabbr is empty or not, and prints it out or not.

Last but not least you have to add the abbreviation fields to the entries.

MWE:

\begin{filecontents}{min.bib}
@article{boisson2003unexpected,
  title={Unexpected protein families including cell defense components feature in the N-myristoylome of a higher eukaryote},
  author={Boisson, B. and Giglione, Carmela and Meinnel, Thierry},
  journal={Journal of Biological Chemistry},
  journalabbr={JBC},
  year={2003},
  publisher={ASBMB}
}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{authorjabbryear.dbx}
\ProvidesFile{authorjabbryear.dbx}
\DeclareDatamodelFields[type=field,datatype=literal]{journalabbr}
\DeclareDatamodelEntryfields[article]{journalabbr}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass[fontsize=11pt, paper=a4, ngerman, DIV=calc]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[scaled]{helvet}
\renewcommand*\familydefault{\sfdefault}
\usepackage{fixltx2e}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[german=quotes]{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=authoryear-comp,sortcites=true,sorting=nyt,isbn=false,natbib=true, citestyle=authoryear,bibstyle=authoryear,backend=biber,maxnames=1,maxcitenames=1,
,datamodel=authorjabbryear%added!
] {biblatex}

\DefineBibliographyStrings{ngerman}{ andothers = {{et\,al\adddot}} }

\renewbibmacro*{cite}{%from authoryear.cbx
  \iffieldundef{shorthand}
    {\ifthenelse{\ifnameundef{labelname}\OR\iffieldundef{labelyear}}
       {\usebibmacro{cite:label}%
        \setunit{\addspace}}
       {\printnames{labelname}%
        \setunit{\nameyeardelim}}%
     \iffieldundef{journalabbr}{}{%
        \printfield{journalabbr}%
        \setunit{\nameyeardelim}%
        }%
     \usebibmacro{cite:labelyear+extrayear}}
    {\usebibmacro{cite:shorthand}}}

\addbibresource{min.bib}

\begin{document}

\citep{boisson2003unexpected} 

How it should look like: 

(Boisson et al., JBC, 2003)

\printbibliography

\end{document}

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