[Tex/LaTex] Comma after last author field in biblatex

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Currently, my references (not citations) have no comma between the last author name, e.g.

Author, AB, CD Author 2012
Author, AB, CD Author et al. 2012

What I would like is:

Author, AB, CD Author, 2012
Author, AB, CD Author et al., 2012

As requested here are the options, I have provided to biblatex:

\usepackage[bibstyle=authoryear-icomp,
citestyle=authoryear-icomp,
uniquename=false,
uniquelist=false, 
firstinits=true, 
maxbibnames=5,
minbibnames=5, 
maxcitenames=2,
mincitenames=1, 
sorting=ynt, 
url=false, 
isbn=false, 
eprint=false, 
doi=false, 
dashed=false, 
natbib=true,
ibidtracker=false,
backend=biber]{biblatex}

%Remove comma in (Beadle and Tautum, 1941) This applies to citation only
\renewcommand*{\nameyeardelim}{\addspace}

Best Answer

A possible solution is use the xpatch package to patch the date+extrayear bibmacro as follows:

\usepackage{xpatch}
\xpretobibmacro{date+extrayear}{\unspace\addcomma\addspace}{}{}

EDIT: Here is an explanation of the patch. The biblatex documentation contains a bib latex.def file with definitions of many bibmacro and other aspects, covering among other which and when bib fields are printed and formatting instructions to print them. Then biblatex include standards.blx. In this file there are the definitions of the drivers. The definition of the drivers specify the order of the various elements. The date/year does not appear directly in the main drivers, but it appears in biblatex macros. For example, for the authoryear style it appears in the macro that produce the author(s)/editor(s) (and the authoryear-icomp calls the authoryear style (for references).

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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}{}{}
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[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}

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