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biblatex has the option of using "ibid" in citations with the authoryear-ibid option. With this option activated, my pdf output contains both:
(I) (ibid.); and
(II) John (ibid).
I would like to keep (I) but not (II) — i.e., I would like biblatex to print John (2000) but not John (ibid). Does anyone know how to do that?
(Here is another way of formulating my question if you use natbib=true: can I activate the use of ibid with \citep but not with \citet?)
Edited again, so most multicite commands work.
Edited so \footcite now works.
A reasonably effective solution that preserves many of biblatex's featuers is provided by adjusting the way the year gets printed in citations. This can be done by redifining the commands associated to cite:year and cite:extrayear. This has the advantage of preserving the ibidem feature.
The code below includes a sample bibliography and then the main file with the redefined citation code.
\begin{filecontents}{test.bib}
@Article{Test,
author = {Author, A. N.},
title = {Article title},
year = 2005,
pages = {10-20},
journal = {Jour.},
vol = {100}
}
@Article{Test2,
author = {Author, A. N.},
title = {Second article},
year = 2005,
pages = {10-20},
journal = {Jour.},
vol = {100}
}
@Article{Test3,
author = {Author, A. B.},
title = {Third article},
year = 2005,
pages = {10-20},
journal = {Jour.},
vol = {100}
}
@Article{Test4,
author = {Author, A. N.},
title = {Fourth article},
year = 2007,
pages = {10-20},
journal = {Jour.},
vol = {100}
}
\end{filecontents}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=authoryear-icomp,autocite=plain]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{test.bib}
\renewbibmacro*{cite:labelyear+extrayear}{%
\iffieldundef{labelyear}
{}
{\iftoggle{blx@footnote}
{\printtext[bibhyperref]{%
\printfield{labelyear}%
\printfield{extrayear}}}
{\footnote{\printtext[bibhyperref]{%
\printfield{labelyear}%
\printfield{extrayear}}}}}}
\renewbibmacro*{cite:extrayear}{%
\iffieldundef{extrayear}
{}
{\iftoggle{blx@footnote}
{\printtext[bibhyperref]{\printfield{extrayear}}}%
{\footnote{\printtext[bibhyperref]{%
\printfield{labelyear}%
\printfield{extrayear}}}}}}
\renewcommand{\compcitedelim}{\space}
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\autocite{Test} and
\autocite[page 3]{Test}.
Some text \parencite{Test2}.
Here is a footnote citation\footcite{Test}.
\autocite{Test,Test4,Test3}.
\printbibliography
\end{document}
As the above shows this works with \autocite, \parencite and accepts their optional arguments. In this style \autocite is the same as \cite.
I haven't demonstrated \textcite, though its ouptut may be useful sometimes; \footcite has also been set up to work, thanks to biblatex's blx@footnote toggle that detects whether we are in a footnote or not.
The code also takes care of most multiple citations \cite{ref1,ref2}. However, there is a spurious comma, if ref1 and ref2 are two publications from the same author in the same year. Fixing that requires, more substanitial rewriting of the citation style file: each of the commands \cite, \textcite, etc. in author-icomp.cbx contains an explicit comma via \setunit{\addcomma}, that needs to be deleted.
Here is a repost of the original solution, as this apparently helps the OP best. It simply defines a newcommand \citepfy (plain-foot-year) that calls \citeauthor followed by a modified \footcite command that produces only the year. It does not accept any of the optional arguments cite commands in biblatex usually do.
\begin{filecontents}{b.bib}
@Article{Test,
author = {Author, A. N.},
title = {Article title},
year = 2005,
pages = {10-20},
journal = {Jour.},
vol = {100}
}
\end{filecontents}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=authoryear-icomp]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{b.bib}
\newcommand{\citepfy}[1]{\citeauthor{#1}\footyearcite{#1}}
\DeclareCiteCommand{\footyearcite}[\mkbibfootnote]
{\usebibmacro{cite:init}%
\usebibmacro{prenote}}
{\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
\usebibmacro{citeyear}}
{}
{\usebibmacro{cite:postnote}}
\begin{document}
\citepfy{Test}
\printbibliography
\end{document}
There are several problems with your example code.
You should start by immediately removing both arguments from the document environment. The instruction should read
\begin{document}
rather than \begin{document}[a4paper,12pt]. The document environment does not take arguments. Nothing good is going to come from supplying arguments, optional or otherwise, to the document environment.
Don't load both the biblatex package and the natbib package. Select one or the other, but not both.
Assuming you want to continue with natbib (@Johannes_B's learned opinion notwithsstanding...), you need to observe that the ieeetr bibliography style is not compatible with authoryear-style citation call-outs. You should therefore load the natbib package with the options numbers and comma, not authoryear and comma. Don't forget to delete the instruction \addbibresource{bib/literature.bib} and to replace \printbibliography with \bibliography{bib/literature} -- note: no filename extension. By the way, with numeric-style citation call-outs in use, \citet will give you a warning message; use \cite instead.
If you do need or want authoryear-style citation call-outs along with IEEE-style formatted bib entries, I suggest you switch to the IEEEtranN bibliography style. If you go this route, be sure to omit the numbers option when loading natbib.
The output from your (somewhat condensed) working example then is as follows.
\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{lit.bib}
@article{england2002,
title = {Stochastic claims reserving in general insurance},
author = {England, Peter D and Verrall, Richard J},
journal = {British Actuarial Journal},
volume = {8},
number = {03},
pages = {443--518},
year = {2002},
publisher= {Cambridge University Press}
}
\end{filecontents}
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article} % just for this example
\usepackage[comma]{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{IEEEtranN}
\begin{document}
as mentioned in \citet{england2002}, \dots
\bibliography{lit}
\end{document}
Best Answer
The
\ifciteibidtest must be removed from thetextcitebibmacro. For convenience, I use thexpatchpackage to selectively change the bibmacro's definition.EDIT: Here are the modifications necessary for the
authoryear-icompstyle (which uses a different implementation oftextcite):