I am building a bibliography using biblatex
and biber
(\usepackage[backend=biber,minnames=2,backref,firstinits,sortcites]{biblatex}
) with a lot of cited papers. Therefore I often have the case of a journal name, volume, issue, month and year, all necessary.
Now the strange thing is, if I have a bibitem such as:
@article{item,
title = {Some Nice Scientific Title},
author = {Doe, Jane},
journal = {Important Journal},
volume = {50},
issue = {20},
pages = {1877--1879},
year = {1984},
month = {Jun},
publisher = {Important Society},
doi = {00.0000}
}
the bibliography looks like this:
Can you spot it? The issue number 20
is in the brackets with the date. Now it looks like it is the day in the date.
So, how do I get around this?
Here's the full MWE:
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage[backend=biber,minnames=2,backref,firstinits,sortcites]{biblatex}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{item.bib}
@article{item,
title = {Some Nice Scientific Title},
author = {Doe, Jane},
journal = {Important Journal},
volume = {50},
issue = {20},
pages = {1877--1879},
year = {1984},
month = {Jun},
publisher = {Important Society},
doi = {00.0000}
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{item.bib}
\begin{document}
\printbibliography[title = {References},heading=bibintoc]
\nocite{*}
\end{document}
Best Answer
You need to use the
number
field and notissue
. While many journals call the 'subdivision' of a volume 'issue',biblatex
usesnumber
here.issue
is meant for more concrete names such as 'Summer issue'.Refer also to the
biblatex
manual, which forissue
has to say on page 20the field
number
is characterised as (p. 21)As far as I am aware it has been this way since the good ol' BibTeX times. Indeed
btxdoc
(§ 3.2, p. 10) describes thenumber
field as (emphasis mine)Some citation download tools on the web use
issue
inappropriately wherenumber
should be used. That is one of the reasons why you should always check downloaded entries thoroughly manually.The following Biber sourcemap maps
issue
tonumber
and then deletes it if the field only contains a number