I am using the review
entry type in biblatex-chicago, and neither the biblatex-chicago
nor the biblatex
documentation have been helpful.
The result I'd like to obtain is something at least close to the Chicago Manual of style, but I can't figure out which combination of entry fields I should use to get it right.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[authordate,backend=biber,indexing=cite,cmsdate=old,sorting=nyt]{biblatex-chicago}
\addbibresource{biblio.bib}
\begin{document}
\title{A Good Article}
\maketitle
Citing \textcite{Review1} for his great criticism of A Great Book.
\printbibliography
\end{document}
with biblio.bib
set up as:
@review{Review1,
author={Doe, John},
title = {Me I. Myself's A Great Book},
journal = {The Review of Reviewing Review that Reviews},
volume = {99},
number = {12},
pages = {123-345},
year = {2013}}
Which obviously prints out something almost identical to what an @article
entry would, sans the quotation marks. I assume there are some ways of getting something at least a little bit closer to The Chicago Manual (i.e. would print the title as "Book review of" and then all in italics the origauthor
followed by a "'s +booktitle+"). I haven't been able to get it working using any combination of entry fields including byreviewer
and other.
What am I missing? Is the @review
entry entended to be identical to @article
and all such formatting should be entered manually?
Best Answer
The
biblatex-chicago
package provides the@review
entry type, but some of the formatting has to be done manually via thetitleaddon
field (see examples)With
biber
it is possible to automate this process quite a bit.First we declare some new fields in
chicago-authordate.dbx
(This file does not exist by default, so it has to be created. If LaTeX can find it, it is then used every time you use the authordate style ofbiblatex-chicago
.). The new fields arerevdtitle
,revdsubtitle
andrevdauthor
, these are valid only for@review
s.The following code goes into the preamble (or a modified version of
chicago-authordate.bbx
- in that case, of course, without\makeatletter
and\makeatother
). It redefines the driver for@review
to incorporate the new fields. (The code is adapted directly fromchicago-authordate.bbx
.)The entry for a review might now look like this
Thanks to the
crossref
field andbiber
's inheritance features, the following will also workThe full, not so M, WE
yields