[Tex/LaTex] Change position of citation using biblatex

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Some journals require inline citations in parentheses/brackets, while others require superscript citations. At the end of a sentence, inline citations are usually typeset before the period, while superscript citations are typeset after the period. The cite package used with bibtex automatically takes care of moving the citation in the right position.

Here is a MWE with inline citation:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\usepackage{cite}

\begin{filecontents}{biblio.bib}
@article{fragoso2016,
  title = {Epidemiology of {{Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease}} ({{COPD}}) in {{Aging Populations}}},
  volume = {13},
  issn = {1541-2563},
  doi = {10.3109/15412555.2015.1077506},
  language = {eng},
  timestamp = {2017-02-09T11:28:32Z},
  number = {2},
  journal = {COPD},
  author = {Fragoso, Carlos A. Vaz},
  year = {2016},
  keywords = {Aging,COPD,Epidemiology,GOLD,Spirometry},
  pages = {125--129}
}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{document}
A statement \cite{fragoso2016}.

\bibliographystyle{unsrt}
\bibliography{biblio}
\end{document}

Adding the "super" option to cite, I get "A statement.¹" instead of "A statement [1].".

Using biblatex, it is easy to move from inline to superscript citations (just change globally \cite into \supercite), but I could not find a way to automatically move the superscript citation after the period. Is there a way to do this?

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Works fine for me:

\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage[autocite=superscript]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\begin{document}
A statement \autocite{doody}.

\end{document}

And with \usepackage[autocite=plain]{biblatex}:

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[Tex/LaTex] change authoryear biblatex citation style

I do not know what the historian style is (it's not a standard one), but I see you use citestyle=authoryear anyway, so this should be the same.

The example below does what you want, I believe. It uses the biblatex example bibliography. Note that some years have letters after them, this happens when the same author has several works in the same year.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=authoryear, backend=biber]{biblatex}
% \renewcommand{\mkbibnamefirst}[1]{\MakeUppercase{#1}}
% \renewcommand{\mkbibnamelast}[1]{\MakeUppercase{#1}}
% \renewcommand{\mkbibnameprefix}[1]{\MakeUppercase{#1}}
% \renewcommand{\mkbibnameaffix}[1]{\MakeUppercase{#1}}
\renewcommand*{\nameyeardelim}{\addcomma\addspace}


\newbibmacro*{cite_p}{%adapted from authoryear.cbx
  \iffieldundef{shorthand}
    {\ifthenelse{\ifnameundef{labelname}\OR\iffieldundef{labelyear}}%
       {\usebibmacro{cite:label}%
        \setunit{\addspace}}%
       {\printnames[labelname_p]{labelname}%
        \setunit{\nameyeardelim}}%
     \usebibmacro{cite:labelyear+extrayear}%
     \iffieldundef{pages}%
         {}%
         {\addcomma\addspace\printfield{pages}}%
   }
   {\usebibmacro{cite:shorthand}}}

\DeclareCiteCommand{\parencite}[\mkbibparens]%adapted from authoryear.cbx
  {\usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \usebibmacro{cite_p}}
  {\multicitedelim}
  {\usebibmacro{postnote}}

\DeclareNameFormat{labelname_p}{%from biblatex.def
  \ifcase\value{uniquename}%
    \usebibmacro{name:last}{\MakeUppercase{#1}}{#3}{#5}{#7}%
  \or
    \ifuseprefix
      {\usebibmacro{name:first-last}{\MakeUppercase{#1}}{#4}{#5}{#8}}
      {\usebibmacro{name:first-last}{\MakeUppercase{#1}}{#4}{#6}{#8}}%
  \or
    \usebibmacro{name:first-last}{\MakeUppercase{#1}}{#3}{#5}{#7}%
  \fi
  \usebibmacro{name:andothers}}

\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\addbibresource{test.bib}


\begin{document}

\begin{itemize}
\item Year and pages \parencite{nietzsche:historie}.
\item Two inbook with year and pages \parencite{nietzsche:historie, brandt} 
\item A book with no pages \parencite{massa}
\item textcite on a book with no pages \textcite{massa}.
\item Several books \parencite{murray, augustine, cotton, bertram, massa}.
\item Article with single page \parencite{art1}
\item textciting  \textcite{nietzsche:historie, brandt}
\end{itemize}

\nocite{*}
\printbibliography

\end{document}

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Explanation

If you want to know the nitty gritty, compare what I have here with what's in authoryear.cbx, you should see what I changed. However, in short:

\renewcommand*{\nameyeardelim}{\addcomma\addspace} to make sure name and year are separated by a space and a comma
Made new citation macro cite_p, basically a copy of cite, but added the pages bit at the end
Redefine parencite to use our custom cite_p.
3+4 ensure that other citation commands are unchanged.

Update

Fixed some bugs, as per comments below

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[Tex/LaTex] Change biblatex citation style

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For small tweaks like this the styles of my biblatex-ext bundle can be more convenient than the standard styles.

In particular the punctuation macros \jourvoldelim and \volnumdelim allow us to avoid having to redefine the two bibmacros journal+issuetitle and volume+number+eid.

\DeclareInnerCiteDelims gives us a quick way to wrap the year in the footnote citation into round brackets, something that would otherwise require redefining the cite or cite:labeldate+extradate bibmacros, which could clash with \textcite if done incorrectly.

Everything else in the code below is standard biblatex.

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The comments explain what each code block does, more can be found in the biblatex documentation and the biblatex-ext documentation.

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,oneside]{article}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}

\usepackage[
    backend=biber,
    style=ext-authoryear-ibid,
    giveninits=true,
    uniquename=init,
    autocite=footnote,
]{biblatex}

% comma between bibliography units
\renewcommand*{\newunitpunct}{\addcomma\space}

% colon after Author (Year) in bibliography
\DeclareDelimFormat[bib,biblist]{nametitledelim}{\addcolon\space}

% no quotation marks around titles
\DeclareFieldFormat
  [article,inbook,incollection,inproceedings,patent,thesis,unpublished]
  {title}{#1\isdot}

% Journal, Jg. Vol (Num)
\renewcommand*{\jourvoldelim}{\addcomma\space}
\DeclareFieldFormat[article,periodical]{volume}{\bibstring{jourvol}~#1}
\DeclareFieldFormat[article,periodical]{number}{\mkbibparens{#1}}
\renewcommand*{\volnumdelim}{\addnbspace}

% parentheses around year in footcite
\DeclareInnerCiteDelims{footcite}{\bibopenparen}{\bibcloseparen}

\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\begin{document}
Random sentence.\autocite[Vgl.][380\psqq]{sigfridsson}

\printbibliography
\end{document}

As Andrew Swann mentions Guidelines for customizing biblatex styles is a great starting point for common and easy modifications, but you can find many more complicated customisations on this site if you search for specific terms. A few of the biblatex tutorials listed in biblatex in a nutshell (for beginners) have a short "common customisation" section or mention a few common modifications. Other than that you can find out what macro to modify and which field format to tweak by looking at the source of your style (biblatex.def, biblatex.bbx and <bibstyle>.bbx, <citestyle>.cbx).

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