[Tex/LaTex] Biblatex urldate – how to change parenthesis with square brackets

biblatex

I would like to produce a Reference list for online resource that ends with angular brackets for urldate. For example, I would like to have the following example end with "[Accessed 1st Apr. 2016]".

Here is the minimal working example:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[british]{babel}
\usepackage[left=2.00cm, right=2.00cm, top=2.00cm, bottom=2.00cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[backend=biber, citestyle=authoryear-ibid,bibstyle=authoryear, sorting=nty, urldate=long]{biblatex}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}
\DefineBibliographyStrings{english}{urlseen = {Accessed }    
}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{references.bib} 
@online{Jerald,
author = {Craig D. Jerald},
title = {School culture:'The hidden curriculum'},
year = {2006},
url = {<http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED495013.pdf>},
organization = {The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and            Improvement},
urldate = {2016-04-01},
}
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{references.bib}

\begin{document}

Some statement \parencite{Jerald}.

\printbibliography[title={References}]
\end{document}

By browsing this site I got the information I need to tweak the following:

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

It seems that I should replace \mkbibparens with a string that would specify square brackets, but I don't know what string that would be. I should emphasize that I don't want to change brackets style for year of publication or any other usage, just tweak the urldate presentation.

Best Answer

You can get (context sensitive) square brackets with \mkbibbrackets. It is the equivalent of \mkbibparens and switches the used brackets according to the nesting level.

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[british]{babel}
\usepackage[backend=biber, style=authoryear-ibid, urldate=long]{biblatex}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}

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

\DefineBibliographyStrings{english}{
  urlseen = {Accessed}    
}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib} 
@online{Jerald,
  author       = {Craig D. Jerald},
  title        = {School culture: 'The hidden curriculum'},
  year         = {2006},
  url          = {http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED495013.pdf},
  organization = {The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement},
  urldate      = {2016-04-01},
}
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}
Some statement \parencite{Jerald}.

\printbibliography
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Biblatex supercite with square brackets and grouped

You have to put the commands \bibopenbracket and \bibclosebracket outsite of the cite-loop:

\DeclareCiteCommand{\supercite}[\mkbibsuperscript]
  {\iffieldundef{prenote}
     {}
     {\BibliographyWarning{Ignoring prenote argument}}%
   \iffieldundef{postnote}
     {}
     {\BibliographyWarning{Ignoring postnote argument}}%
   \bibopenbracket}%
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \usebibmacro{cite}}
  {\supercitedelim}
  {\bibclosebracket}

To get a compact version of the numeric style you can use the style numeric-comp. Therefor you need an other modification of \supercite.

\DeclareCiteCommand{\supercite}[\mkbibsuperscript]
  {\usebibmacro{cite:init}%
   \let\multicitedelim=\supercitedelim
   \iffieldundef{prenote}
     {}
     {\BibliographyWarning{Ignoring prenote argument}}%
   \iffieldundef{postnote}
     {}
     {\BibliographyWarning{Ignoring postnote argument}}%
  \bibopenbracket}%
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \usebibmacro{cite:comp}}
  {}
  {\usebibmacro{cite:dump}\bibclosebracket}

Here the complete MWE:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[style=numeric-comp]{biblatex}


\DeclareCiteCommand{\supercite}[\mkbibsuperscript]
  {\usebibmacro{cite:init}%
   \let\multicitedelim=\supercitedelim
   \iffieldundef{prenote}
     {}
     {\BibliographyWarning{Ignoring prenote argument}}%
   \iffieldundef{postnote}
     {}
     {\BibliographyWarning{Ignoring postnote argument}}%
  \bibopenbracket}%
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \usebibmacro{cite:comp}}
  {}
  {\usebibmacro{cite:dump}\bibclosebracket}

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{test.bib}
@book{A01,
  author = {Author, A.},
  year = {2001},
  title = {Alpha},
}
@book{B02,
  author = {Buthor, B.},
  year = {2002},
  title = {Bravo},
}
@article{C03,
  author = {Cuthor, C.},
  year = {2003},
  title = {Charlie},
}
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{test.bib}

\let\cite=\supercite

\begin{document}

We are citing \supercite{A01,C03} and \supercite{B02} and \cite{A01,B02,C03}

\printbibliography

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] BibLaTeX bibliography without square brackets

Assuming you are using the exact content from the answer you linked to:

Change the defbibenvironment code to this:

\defbibenvironment{bibliography}
  {}
  {}
  {\addspace
   {%
     \printfield{prefixnumber}%
     \textbf{\printfield{labelnumber}}.}%
   \addhighpenspace}

I've removed \printtext[labelnumberwidth] to remove the brackets and wrapped the \printfield{labelnumber} with a bold command (and added in the period). With this .bib file:

@misc{A01,
  author = {Author, A.},
  year = {2001},
  title = {Alpha},
}

@misc{B02,
  author = {Buthor, B.},
  year = {2002},
  title = {Bravo},
}

@misc{C03,
  author = {Cuthor, C.},
  year = {2003},
  title = {Charlie},
}

This output is produced for the bibliography:

References

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