With biblatex, alphabetic style, I have
<author>. <title>
But I want to have a colon ":" instead of the period "." after the author:
<author>: <title>
What do I have to change?
[Tex/LaTex] Colon (:) instead of period (.) after author with biblatex, alphabetic
biblatexpunctuation
Related Solutions
You need to patch the date+extrayear bibmacro. (The solution is a slight modification of biblatex: How to remove the parentheses around the year in authoryear style?)
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=authoryear,firstinits=true,terseinits=true]{biblatex}
\usepackage{xpatch}
\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{last-first}
\renewcommand*{\revsdnamepunct}{}
\renewcommand*{\finalnamedelim}{\addcomma\space}
\xpretobibmacro{date+extrayear}{%
\setunit{\addperiod\space}%
}{}{}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{A01,
author = {Author, A. A. and Buthor, B. B. and Cuthor, C. C.},
year = {2001},
title = {Alpha},
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\nocite{*}
\begin{document}
\printbibliography
\end{document}
In the chem-acs style the \newunitpunct macro is defined as \addcomma\addspace so whenever you start a new unit you are going to get a comma. For book entries the unit is being started by the maintitle+title bibmacro while for inbook entries it is being started by the driver itself. While you could globally set \newunitpunct, this will have effects all over the place. Instead, I would use the xpatch package to patch the bibmacro and driver more locally and use \setunit to locally control the punctuation.
\xpatchbibmacro{maintitle+title}{\newunit\newblock}{\newunit\setunit{\addspace}\newblock}{}{}
\xpatchbibdriver{inbook}{\usebibmacro{byauthor}\newunit}{\usebibmacro{byauthor}\newunit\setunit{\addspace}}{}{}
Best Answer
Put the following in your preamble after having loaded biblatex
(This is better than
\renewcommand{\labelnamepunct}{:\addspace}, as remarked by domwass.)Update
The
\labelnamepunctcommand is currently deprecated and the context dependentshould be used. However, old styles may still be using
\labelnamepunct, so the original answer has been kept. (Thanks to moewe for recalling to update.)