[Tex/LaTex] Clean thesis template, references not compressed

biblatexcleanthesis

I'm using Clean Thesis template for my thesis. My problem is: "the references are not compressed," as shown in the highligted line segment in the image below. Could anyone please suggest how the issue can be addressed? Thanks a million.

And, here is the code that configure the bibliography system:

\usepackage[
    figuresep=colon,
    sansserif=false,
    hangfigurecaption=false,
    hangsection=true,
    hangsubsection=true,
    colorize=full,
    bibsys=bibtex,
    bibfile=bib-refs,
    bibstyle=numeric
    bibliographystyle=ieeetr
]{cleanthesis}

Best Answer

The cleanthesis.sty uses biblatex to manage citations. While biblatex itself offers a broad variety of citationstyles, cleanthesis offers only three of them: alphabetic, numeric and authoryear to choose from using the style=... option from cleanthesis.

In order to use citationstyles other than the above mentioned, one can edit a local copy of cleanthesis.sty in the following two ways:

1. fixed citestyle, not customizable via option

The first customization option is to directly pass the desired citationstyle as an option to biblatex. Consider the following code, which is a copy of line 284-300 from cleanthesis.sty.

\RequirePackage[                    % use biblatex for bibliography
    backend=\cthesis@bibsys,        %   - use biber backend (bibtex replacement) or bibtex
    style=\cthesis@bibstyle,        %   - use alphabetic (or numeric) bib style
    natbib=true,                    %   - allow natbib commands
    hyperref=true,                  %   - activate hyperref support
    backref=true,                   %   - activate backrefs
    isbn=false,                     %   - don't show isbn tags
    url=false,                      %   - don't show url tags
    doi=false,                      %   - don't show doi tags
    urldate=long,                   %   - display type for dates
    maxnames=3,%
    minnames=1,%
    maxbibnames=5,%
    minbibnames=3,%
    maxcitenames=2,%
    mincitenames=1%
]{biblatex}

Replacing style=\cthesis@bibstyle by citestyle=numeric-copm (or every other citestyle biblatex offers) and not using clearthesis's bibstyle=... option in the preamble of the document should work.

2. flexible citestyle, customizable via option

A better and more flexible approach is the following. The following code is again copied from cleanthesis.sty (line 92).

\define@choicekey*[ct]{cthesis}{bibstyle}[\val\bibstylenr]
{alphabetic,numeric,authoryear}[alphabetic]{\def\cthesis@bibstyle{#1}}

To customize this one could add the numeric-comp style (or any other) as follows:

\define@choicekey*[ct]{cthesis}{bibstyle}[\val\bibstylenr] alphabetic,numeric,authoryear,numeric-comp}[alphabetic]{\def\cthesis@bibstyle{#1}}

Now the added style can be chosen in the preamble of the .tex file using something like:

\usepackage[bibstyle=alphabetic,bibfile=filename]{cleanthesis}

Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] Citing (author, journalabbr., year) needed

First thing to do is to add a field for the journal abbreviation to the article entrytype, journalabbr in the MWE. Therefore you need to declare a datamodel (an extra file; in the MWE I've used filecontents to simulate that) and you have to tell biblatex/biber to use it in the package options.

Then you have to modify the cite command, so it fits your needs. \citep from the authoryear-style (your citestyle) uses the \cite command. There you just have to add a switch, which checks if the field journalabbr is empty or not, and prints it out or not.

Last but not least you have to add the abbreviation fields to the entries.

MWE:

\begin{filecontents}{min.bib}
@article{boisson2003unexpected,
  title={Unexpected protein families including cell defense components feature in the N-myristoylome of a higher eukaryote},
  author={Boisson, B. and Giglione, Carmela and Meinnel, Thierry},
  journal={Journal of Biological Chemistry},
  journalabbr={JBC},
  year={2003},
  publisher={ASBMB}
}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{authorjabbryear.dbx}
\ProvidesFile{authorjabbryear.dbx}
\DeclareDatamodelFields[type=field,datatype=literal]{journalabbr}
\DeclareDatamodelEntryfields[article]{journalabbr}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass[fontsize=11pt, paper=a4, ngerman, DIV=calc]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[scaled]{helvet}
\renewcommand*\familydefault{\sfdefault}
\usepackage{fixltx2e}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[german=quotes]{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=authoryear-comp,sortcites=true,sorting=nyt,isbn=false,natbib=true, citestyle=authoryear,bibstyle=authoryear,backend=biber,maxnames=1,maxcitenames=1,
,datamodel=authorjabbryear%added!
] {biblatex}

\DefineBibliographyStrings{ngerman}{ andothers = {{et\,al\adddot}} }

\renewbibmacro*{cite}{%from authoryear.cbx
  \iffieldundef{shorthand}
    {\ifthenelse{\ifnameundef{labelname}\OR\iffieldundef{labelyear}}
       {\usebibmacro{cite:label}%
        \setunit{\addspace}}
       {\printnames{labelname}%
        \setunit{\nameyeardelim}}%
     \iffieldundef{journalabbr}{}{%
        \printfield{journalabbr}%
        \setunit{\nameyeardelim}%
        }%
     \usebibmacro{cite:labelyear+extrayear}}
    {\usebibmacro{cite:shorthand}}}

\addbibresource{min.bib}

\begin{document}

\citep{boisson2003unexpected} 

How it should look like: 

(Boisson et al., JBC, 2003)

\printbibliography

\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Customizing clean thesis

Without changing anything in cleanthesis.sty, add the following lines in your document, just before \begin{document}

\makeatletter
\pretocmd{\Hy@org@chapter}{\KOMAoptions{parskip=full}}{}{}
\pretocmd{\H@old@schapter}{\KOMAoptions{parskip=full}}{}{}
\pretocmd{\cleanchapterquote}{\KOMAoptions{parskip=full}}{}{}
\apptocmd{\Hy@org@chapter}{\KOMAoptions{parskip=false}}{}{}
\apptocmd{\H@old@schapter}{\KOMAoptions{parskip=false}}{}{}
\apptocmd{\cleanchapterquote}{\KOMAoptions{parskip=false}\vspace*{\baselineskip}}{}{}
\makeatother

Output:

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