[Tex/LaTex] Biblatex – Modify Nature citation style

biblatex

I am currently using the Nature citation style in my document which works very well for me for all but one point. I would like to change it so that it displays the title of chapters of books and the access date of website which it currently doesn't do. How would I be able to achieve that?

Here is an MWE of what I currently have:

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[style=nature,sorting=none,backend=biber,isbn=false,date=year,doi=false,url=false]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@incollection{Constable2009,
abstract = {This chapter contains sections titled: * General considerations for process metrics * Materials * Equipment and operability intertwined * EHS hazards and risk * Quality * Conclusions * References},
address = {Chichester, UK},
author = {Constable, David J C and Jimenez-Gonzalez, Conchita and Lapkin, Alexei},
booktitle = {Green Chemistry Metrics},
doi = {10.1002/9781444305432.ch6},
file = {:D$\backslash$:/pmj27/Mendeley/Library/Constable, Jimenez-Gonzalez, Lapkin - 2009 - Process Metrics.pdf:pdf},
isbn = {9781405159685},
keywords = {Environmental,Equipment and operability,Hazard scoring for process materials,Petrochemical and bulk commodity chemical manufact,Process metrics,Process metrics - one size does not fit all,Process recycle - in-process and post-processing r,Specific metrics for mass,Total cost assessment or environmental accounting,health and safety hazards (EHS) risks associated w,sustainability screening},
mendeley-tags = {sustainability screening},
pages = {228--247},
publisher = {John Wiley {\&} Sons, Ltd},
title = {{Process Metrics}},
url = {http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/9781444305432.ch6},
year = {2009}
}
@online{MetOffice2014m,
author = {{Met Office}},
title = {{Middlesbrough climate}},
url = {http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/climate/gcxn7yvv5},
urldate = {2015-11-29},
year = {2014}
}
\end{filecontents}
\begin{document}

\cite{Constable2009} \cite{MetOffice2014m}

\printbibliography
\end{document}

Best Answer

The option intitle allows you to display chapter titles for @inbook and @incollection entries (i.e. their titles), so load the package with

intitle = true,

You already get to see the access date, but because the package sets urldate = year, we only get to see the year of the access date, with

urldate = short,

we get the entire date.

If you want to the see the 'visited on' string as well, you will need

\DeclareFieldFormat{urldate}{\mkbibparens{\bibstring{urlseen}\space#1}}

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[Tex/LaTex] Biblatex citation style ASM

I can partially answer: adding this line to your preamble will suppress the brackets and add a dot:

\DeclareFieldFormat{labelnumberwidth}{#1\adddot}

As for having the date after the author name, it's a bit more complicated (at least for me — maybe someone can give a better solution). It consists in firstly looking at the different \DeclareBibliographyDriver commands in standard.bbx and suppressing the macros that are in charge of the date, replacing them if necessary.
I give a couple of examples: for the book class, there is a

  \usebibmacro{publisher+location+date}

which you have to replace by

  \usebibmacro{publisher+location}

The latter is not defined by biblatex. So you have to define a \newbibmacro*{publisher+location} that will have the same ingredients as the former, except that you'll delete the last but one command, \usebibmacro{date}. That will settle the case of book, collection, inbook, incollection and manual.

Similar other bibmacros will have to be replaced in the same way : location+date (booklet, unpublished); event+venue+date ((in)proceedings); organization+location+date (misc); institution+location+date (report, thesis). For patent (?) and online, just suppress \usebibmacro{date}.

The case of article is a little different: the responsible for printing the date is the journal+issuetitle macro; towards the end of the macro definition, you'll have to replace a \usebibmacro{issue+date} by \usebibmacro{issue}.

Secondly, the bibliography drivers, just after the lines mentioning the author/translator, there is this line:

\setunit{\labelnamepunct}\newblock

Insert just above it these 2 lines:

\newunit 
\usebibmacro{date}

That's all. I hope I've been clear. Let me add that you don't need to use xpatch for this solution.

Result: enter image description here

Added on 01/30: here is the code I used to redefine the journal+issue macro:

\renewbibmacro*{journal+issuetitle}{%
\usebibmacro{journal}%
\setunit*{\addspace}%
\iffieldundef{series}
{}
{\newunit
\printfield{series}%
\setunit{\addspace}}%
\usebibmacro{volume+number+eid}%
\setunit{\addspace}%
\usebibmacro{issue}%+date
\setunit{\addcolon\space}%
\usebibmacro{issue}%
\newunit}

[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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