[Tex/LaTex] biblatex short title and long title in bibliography

biblatex

Is it possible to customize the bibliography (at the end of the document) so that references are shown as follows:

  Author_A short_title  
       Author_A long_title

Short titles are used throughout the document. biblatex with style=authortitle-comp is used. It is difficult to relate the short titles to the normal long title in the bibliography when reading the document. It is therefore required that the author name and the short title should precede the full references in the bibliography for ease of reference.

The solution by @lockstep work, but there is one issue. The layout is incorrect in that there is not a space between the author and the title. In addition the author references are mulched. Please see the screenshot here.

Mulched references

Bibtex was upgraded as per @lockstep's note hereunder and all issues were resolved. Well almost …

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What can be done to get rid of the dot at the start of every reference, see the example here:

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Best Answer

I have answered a similar question about modifying author-year bibliographies. When trying to adapt my former answer to authortitle-comp, I noticed that using a comp style (which compresses recurring author names in citations) presents an additional difficulty: One cannot simply use \usebibmacro{cite} when customizing the bibliography format, but must resort to lower-level commands. The following seems to work:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[style=authortitle-comp,dashed=false,maxcitenames=1]{biblatex}

\newcounter{mymaxcitenames}
\AtBeginDocument{%
  \setcounter{mymaxcitenames}{\value{maxnames}}%
}

\renewbibmacro*{begentry}{%
  \printtext[brackets]{%
    \begingroup
    \defcounter{maxnames}{\value{mymaxcitenames}}%
    \printnames{labelname}%
    \setunit{\nametitledelim}%
    \usebibmacro{cite:title}%
    \endgroup
    }%
  \newline% or \quad\ or \addspace
}

\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{first-last}

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{biblatextest.bib}
@misc{A01,
  author = {Author, A. and Buthor, B.},
  year = {2001},
  title = {A sophisticated and verbose theory of Alpha},
  shorttitle = {Alpha},
}
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{biblatextest.bib}

\begin{document}

Some text \autocite{A01}.

\printbibliography

\end{document}

EDIT: Replaced \quad with \newline. Please specify what other part of the layout is "incorrect".

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[Tex/LaTex] Citation of short titles

If we enable the package option singletitle we can use the test \ifsingletitle to check if there is only one work by a particular author.

We can modify the cite:title macro to do nothing if that is the case

\renewbibmacro*{cite:title}{%
  \ifsingletitle
    {}
    {\printtext[bibhyperref]{%
       \printfield[citetitle]{labeltitle}}}}

This, leads to a tiny complication with punctuation though, so we also need

\renewbibmacro*{cite}{%
  \global\boolfalse{cbx:loccit}%
  \iffieldundef{shorthand}
    {\ifthenelse{\ifciteibid\AND\NOT\iffirstonpage}
       {\usebibmacro{cite:ibid}}
       {\ifnameundef{labelname}
          {}
          {\printnames{labelname}%
           \ifsingletitle{}{\setunit{\nametitledelim}}}%<--- the change is here
        \usebibmacro{cite:title}}}%
    {\usebibmacro{cite:shorthand}}}

Note that in your MWE I have changed your redefinition of the in bibstring to the standard way to suppress the "in:", I also use style=authortitle-ibid instead of the longer, but equivalent citestyle=authortitle-ibid, bibstyle=authortitle. I don't like the techreport = {}, either, but I'm not entirely sure what you want to do there, so I left it, maybe, just maybe \AtEveryBibitem{\clearfield{type}} does what you want. We also used \footcite{foo} instead of \footnote{\cite{foo}}.

\documentclass[11pt, article, oneside]{memoir}
\usepackage[australian]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage{endnotes}
\let\footnote=\endnote
\renewcommand{\notesname}{}
\usepackage[style=authortitle-ibid, terseinits=true, block=space, backend=biber, singletitle]{biblatex}
\defbibheading{memoir}{}

\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\DefineBibliographyStrings{australian}{% 
bibliography = {References},
shorthands = {Abbreviations}, 
editor = {editor}, 
editors = {editors},
techreport = {},
}

\renewbibmacro{in:}{}

\renewbibmacro*{cite}{%
  \global\boolfalse{cbx:loccit}%
  \iffieldundef{shorthand}
    {\ifthenelse{\ifciteibid\AND\NOT\iffirstonpage}
       {\usebibmacro{cite:ibid}}
       {\ifnameundef{labelname}
          {}
          {\printnames{labelname}%
           \ifsingletitle{}{\setunit{\nametitledelim}}}%
        \usebibmacro{cite:title}}}%
    {\usebibmacro{cite:shorthand}}}

\renewbibmacro*{cite:title}{%
  \ifsingletitle
    {}
    {\printtext[bibhyperref]{%
       \printfield[citetitle]{labeltitle}}}}


\begin{document}

blah\footcite[12]{sigfridsson} blah\footcite{worman,pines} blah\footcite[34]{knuth:ct:b}
blah\footcite[56]{geer} blah\footcite[78]{knuth:ct:c} blah.


\newpage
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Notes}
\chapter*{Notes}
% 
\begingroup
\renewcommand{\makeenmark}{\hbox{\theenmark}.\quad}
\parindent 0pt
\parskip 2ex
\def\enotesize{\normalsize}
\theendnotes
\endgroup

\chapter*{References}
\raggedright
\printbibliography[heading=memoir]

\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Biblatex: bibliography force title to line break when needed

Values for url are automatically wrapped, but in other contexts, you must mark them up appropriately. Moreover, the first entry should be @inproceedings and the second should have its date.

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@inproceedings{Gaedke,
    author = {Gaedke, Martin and Heil, Andreas},
    title = {{GET} {/dgs} {HTTP}/1.1 Host: \url{www.WebComposition.net}},
    url = {http://www.mendeley.com/research/dgs-http11-host-wwwwebcompositionnet/},
    urldate={2018-08-19},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences},
    date = 2009,
    organization = {HICSS},
}
@online{IOT,
    author = {Litzel, Nico},
    title = {Was ist das Internet of Things?},
    url = {https://www.bigdata-insider.de/was-ist-das-internet-of-things-a-590806/},
    urldate={2018-08-19},
    date = {2016-01-09},
}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass[11pt, a4paper]{scrreprt}
\usepackage[style=alphabetic, sorting=anyt]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\usepackage[colorlinks, urlcolor=blue]{hyperref}

\begin{document}
\cite{Gaedke}
\cite{IOT}

\printbibliography
\end{document}

This does break the URL in the title, though we still get a bad box because TeX can't figure out a good way to break up the URL further. Or, more likely the url package or hyperref's version cannot.

If you want the URLs to be broken regardless, you can set the penalties accordingly. For example, adding

\setcounter{biburlnumpenalty}{9000}
\setcounter{biburlucpenalty}{9000}
\setcounter{biburllcpenalty}{9000}

produces

instead.

\documentclass[11pt, a4paper]{scrreprt}
\usepackage[style=alphabetic, sorting=anyt]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\usepackage[colorlinks, urlcolor=blue]{hyperref}
\setcounter{biburlnumpenalty}{9000}
\setcounter{biburlucpenalty}{9000}
\setcounter{biburllcpenalty}{9000}
\begin{document}
\cite{Gaedke}
\cite{IOT}

\printbibliography
\end{document}

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