[Tex/LaTex] Custom line breaks in biblatex bibliography entries

biblatexline-breaking

I'm using biblatex with bibstyle=authoryear option. I'd like to customize the style to insert a line break after the year in each bibliography entry. Currently, an entry looks like this

authoryear bibliography entry

I'd like to have a line break after (1993). so that First Draft of a... started on the new line.

Is there a user-side biblatex customization option or a command to accomplish this?

There's an option to have a line break after each block in the entry block=par, and it looks like this

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However this is not what I need. I want the line break to be after the Author-Year line, and the rest of the blocks to be in one paragraph.

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A simple solution is to redefine the \labelnamepunct command. This command is executed after the name and title are printed by biblatex drivers in the authoryear style. A possible re-definition is

\renewcommand*{\labelnamepunct}{\newunitpunct\par}

This produce the following output

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[Tex/LaTex] Biblatex : custom articles and books

This answer will be a work in progress, and it will quite possibly not cover all requests. That said, do the following:

Delete the code line \DeclareRangeCommands{\pno\ppno};
Add the code line \DeclareFieldFormat[book]{title}{\mkbibquote{\mkbibemph{#1}}};
Add the package option dateabbrev=false.

One way to switch from "t." to "vol." for articles would be to choose language=english. Is that what you want? Please explain.

EDIT: For @book entries, use the pagetotal field instead of the pages field.

EDIT 2: For @book & friends, add the following to your preamble:

\renewbibmacro*{publisher+location+date}{%
  \printlist{publisher}%
  \setunit*{\addcomma\space}%
  \printlist{location}%
  \setunit*{\addcomma\space}%
  \usebibmacro{date}%
  \newunit}

To be consistent, you should also change the bibmacros institution+location+date and organization+location+date along these lines. (The originals are located in standard.bbx.)

EDIT 3: For @article, the following seems to work at first glance (and I didn't bother to check it thouroughly):

\renewbibmacro*{journal+issuetitle}{%
  \usebibmacro{journal}%
  \setunit*{\addspace}%
  \iffieldundef{series}
    {}
    {\newunit
     \printfield{series}%
     \setunit{\addspace}}%
  \usebibmacro{issue+date}%
  \setunit{\addcolon\space}%
  \usebibmacro{issue}%
  \setunit{\addcomma\space}%
  \usebibmacro{volume+number+eid}%
  \newunit}

@Doompa: That's it for now. If your style still needs finetuning, please add any requests to your original question (your edits became quite confusing for me). Also think about why you want a particular change.

[Tex/LaTex] Allow line break in BibLaTeX output

My solution is to add a 0pt hspace.

ABC.\hspace{0pt}learning

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