[Tex/LaTex] biblatex, edit \footcite command

biblatex

I am using the biblatex package.
for my thesis I have the following requirements for a citation in the footer:

See "last name of the author" ("year"), "pages".

example footcite: See Miller (2010), p. 3.

example footcites: See Miller (2010), p. 3; Martin (2008), p. 23; Matthew (2000), p. 44.

I'm using the \footcite[pre][post]{citekey} and \footcites(pre)(post)[pre][post]{citekey}...[pre][post]{citekey}command respectively but it doesn't provide the braces around the "year", everything else is fine.

I found a workaround by using \footnote{See \textcite{citekey}, "pages".} that generates exactly what I need but this solution is unhandy regarding punctuation.

Therefore: Is there any solution to customize the mentioned commands?
I found some similar questions here but nothing worked for me.

EDIT:
MWE:
EDIT2: Actually I use BibDesk to organise my references, however I used the filecontents package now. Everybody should be able to compile it now.

\documentclass[toc=listof,12p,bibintoc]{scrreprt}
\usepackage[backend=bibtex,style=authoryear]{biblatex}

\addbibresource{example.bib} 
\RequirePackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{example.bib}
@article{example2,
Author = {Author2},
Date-Added = {2014-11-10 20:00:20 +0000},
Date-Modified = {2014-11-10 20:01:29 +0000},
Journal = {Journal2},
Title = {Title2},
Year = {2012}}

@article{example1,
Author = {Author1},        
Date-Added = {2014-11-10 20:00:07 +0000},
Date-Modified = {2014-11-10 20:01:10 +0000},
Journal = {Journal1},
Title = {Title1},
Year = {2010}}

@article{example3,
Author = {Author3},
Date-Added = {2014-11-10 19:59:11 +0000},
Date-Modified = {2014-11-10 20:00:40 +0000},
Journal = {Journal2},
Title = {Title2},
Year = {2014}}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{document}
footcite\footcite[See][p. 30]{example1}
footcites\footcites(See)(){example1}{example2}{example3}

\printbibliography[heading=bibintoc]

\end{document}

Here an example of both commands and the output in the footer:
enter image description here

Everything is fine but the missing braces around the "year".

thanks in advance!

Best Answer

This seemed to me to be a very standard question, but I could not find an answer that dealt only with this problem (there were some combined answers that also incorporated this).

With the authoryear stle, \footcite uses the bibmacro cite (it probably does that for almost all standard styles), so we modify that to include parentheses around the year. (This will also add parentheses around the year in normal \cite and also in \parencite (not in \textcite though) - if you don't want that, a bit more work needs to be done.) I also added a check to suppress parentheses if no year is present - we don't want to end up with an empty pair of parentheses, after all.

The cite macro becomes (with the relevant lines added and changed near the end)

\renewbibmacro*{cite}{%
  \iffieldundef{shorthand}
    {\ifthenelse{\ifnameundef{labelname}\OR\iffieldundef{labelyear}}
       {\usebibmacro{cite:label}%
        \setunit{\printdelim{nonameyeardelim}}}
       {\printnames{labelname}%
        \setunit{\printdelim{nameyeardelim}}}%
     \iffieldundef{labelyear}
       {}
       {\printtext[parens]{\usebibmacro{cite:labeldate+extradate}}}}
    {\usebibmacro{cite:shorthand}}}

MWE

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

\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib} 

\renewbibmacro*{cite}{%
  \iffieldundef{shorthand}
    {\ifthenelse{\ifnameundef{labelname}\OR\iffieldundef{labelyear}}
       {\usebibmacro{cite:label}%
        \setunit{\printdelim{nonameyeardelim}}}
       {\printnames{labelname}%
        \setunit{\printdelim{nameyeardelim}}}%
     \iffieldundef{labelyear}
       {}
       {\printtext[parens]{\usebibmacro{cite:labeldate+extradate}}}}
    {\usebibmacro{cite:shorthand}}}

\begin{document}
footcite\footcite[See][30]{wilde}
footcites\footcites(See)(){companion}{knuth:ct:a}{knuth:ct:b}

\printbibliography[heading=bibintoc]
\end{document}

enter image description here

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You need to insert \nopunct into appropriate places for these two different problems.

For the year, this is in the biblatex macro issue+date and you can insert it before the final \newunit:

\renewbibmacro{issue+date}{%
  \printtext[parens]{%
    \iffieldundef{issue}
      {\usebibmacro{date}}
      {\printfield{issue}%
       \setunit*{\addspace}%
       \usebibmacro{date}}}%
  \nopunct\newunit}

For the see note, it should be part of your redefinition of footnote:cite after your closing parenthesis. I would also suggest moving the opening parenthesis into the same block.

Putting this into your code, we get:

Sample output

from

\documentclass{scrartcl}
\begin{filecontents*}{mybib.bib}
@BOOK{Abook,
 author = "First Author and The Second Author",
 title = {The Longtitle and not the Shorttitle},
 shorttitle = {Shorttitle},
 publisher = "The Publisher",
 address =  "Address",
 year = "1965"}
@article{Aarticle,
Author = {Article Author},
Journal = {Journal Title},
Pages = {113-126},
Title = {Title of the Article},
Volume = {65},
Year = {1968}}
\end{filecontents*}

\usepackage[style=verbose-note,firstinits=true]{biblatex}

\renewbibmacro*{footcite:note}{%
  \ifnameundef{labelname}
    {\printfield{label}}
    {\printnames[first-last]{labelname}}%
    {\setunit*{\nametitledelim}%
     \printfield[title]{labeltitle}}%
  \setunit*{\space}%
  \printtext{%
  (%
    \bibstring{seenote}\addnbspace
    \ref{cbx@\csuse{cbx@f@\thefield{entrykey}}})\nopunct%
    \iftoggle{cbx:pageref}
      {\ifsamepage{\the\value{instcount}}
                  {)\csuse{cbx@f@\thefield{entrykey}}}
         {}
     {\addcomma\space\bibstring{page}\addnbspace
      \pageref{cbx@\csuse{cbx@f@\thefield{entrykey}}}}}
      {}}}

\renewcommand{\newunitpunct}{\addcomma\space}
\renewcommand*{\mkbibnamefirst}[1]{{\iffirstinits{\let~\-}{}#1}}

\renewcommand*{\multinamedelim}{~--\space}
\renewcommand*{\finalnamedelim}{~--\space}

\renewbibmacro{in:}{%
  \ifentrytype{article}{}{%
  \printtext{\bibstring{in}\intitlepunct}}}

\renewbibmacro{issue+date}{%
  \printtext[parens]{%
    \iffieldundef{issue}
      {\usebibmacro{date}}
      {\printfield{issue}%
       \setunit*{\addspace}%
       \usebibmacro{date}}}%
  \nopunct\newunit}

\DeclareFieldFormat{postnote}{#1}
\DeclareFieldFormat{multipostnote}{#1}
\DeclareFieldFormat{pages}{#1}

\AtEveryCitekey{%
  \clearlist{publisher}%
}

\DefineBibliographyStrings{english}{%
  seenote = {cf.~nt.\adddot},
}


\bibliography{mybib}

\begin{document}

Here and there. \footcite[4]{Abook}

There and here. \footcite[5]{Abook}

Up and down. \footcite{Aarticle}

\end{document}

[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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