[Tex/LaTex] How to use Biblatex with square brackets and hyperref

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I want to use square brackets for the \parencite command using Biblatex, like suggested here: Biblatex, author-year, square brackets, and I want to have the complete citation as link like here: Edit the link span of a \cite .

I cannot get both things to work together. If I now use \parencite, only the year is a link, or, when not commenting out the section with \DeclareCiteCommand{\parencite}, the brackets are lost.
Ideally, I want the brackets to be part of the link, too.

MWE using my copy-pasted bib customizations:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[colorlinks=true, citecolor=blue]{hyperref}
%Bibliographie und Quellenverzeichnis
\usepackage[backend = biber,
    style=authoryear,
    citestyle=authoryear-ibid,    
    sorting=nyt,
    autocite=plain, 
    citereset=none,
    url=true,                   %URL drucken, wenn angegeben
    doi=false,                  %DOI drucken, wenn angegeben
    hyperref=true,              %Zitationen in klickbare Links
    backref=false,              %zeige in der Bibl Rücklinks 
    isbn=false,
    maxbibnames=3,  
    useeditor=true]{biblatex}
\setlength{\bibitemsep}{1em}
\setlength{\bibhang}{2em}
\renewcommand{\bibfootnotewrapper}[1]{\bibsentence#1}
\DeclareFieldFormat{postnote}{#1}  

\renewcommand*{\nameyeardelim}{\space}
\renewcommand*{\postnotedelim}{\addcolon}

\DeclareCiteCommand{\cite}
  {\usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \printtext[bibhyperref]{\usebibmacro{cite}}}
  {\multicitedelim}
  {\usebibmacro{postnote}}

\DeclareCiteCommand*{\cite}
  {\usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \printtext[bibhyperref]{\usebibmacro{citeyear}}}
  {\multicitedelim}
  {\usebibmacro{postnote}}

\DeclareCiteCommand{\parencite}
  {\usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \printtext[bibhyperref]{\usebibmacro{cite}}}
  {\multicitedelim}
  {\usebibmacro{postnote}}

\makeatletter

\newrobustcmd*{\parentexttrack}[1]{%
  \begingroup
  \blx@blxinit
  \blx@setsfcodes
  \blx@bibopenparen#1\blx@bibcloseparen
  \endgroup}

\AtEveryCite{%
  \let\parentext=\parentexttrack%
  \let\bibopenparen=\bibopenbracket%
  \let\bibcloseparen=\bibclosebracket}
\makeatother  

\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

% here the doc begins
\begin{document}
  \parencite{aksin}
  \printbibliography
\end{document}

Best Answer

Well, I have a workaround for you. Change the definition of \parencite to

\DeclareCiteCommand{\parencite}
  {\usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \printtext[bibhyperref]{[\usebibmacro{cite}]}}
  %                        ^                  ^
  {\multicitedelim}
  {\usebibmacro{postnote}}

by adding the missing brackets.

With the following MWE

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[colorlinks=true, citecolor=blue]{hyperref}
%Bibliographie und Quellenverzeichnis
\usepackage[%
  backend = biber,
  style=authoryear,
  citestyle=authoryear-ibid,    
  sorting=nyt,
  autocite=plain, 
  citereset=none,
  url=true,                   %URL drucken, wenn angegeben
  doi=false,                  %DOI drucken, wenn angegeben
  hyperref=true,              %Zitationen in klickbare Links
  backref=false,              %zeige in der Bibl Rücklinks 
  isbn=false,
  maxbibnames=3,  
  useeditor=true
]{biblatex}
\setlength{\bibitemsep}{1em}
\setlength{\bibhang}{2em}
\renewcommand{\bibfootnotewrapper}[1]{\bibsentence#1}

\DeclareFieldFormat{postnote}{#1}  

\renewcommand*{\nameyeardelim}{\space}
\renewcommand*{\postnotedelim}{\addcolon}

\DeclareCiteCommand{\cite}
  {\usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \printtext[bibhyperref]{\usebibmacro{cite}}}
  {\multicitedelim}
  {\usebibmacro{postnote}}

\DeclareCiteCommand*{\cite}
  {\usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \printtext[bibhyperref]{\usebibmacro{citeyear}}}
  {\multicitedelim}
  {\usebibmacro{postnote}}

\DeclareCiteCommand{\parencite}
  {\usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \printtext[bibhyperref]{[\usebibmacro{cite}]}}
  {\multicitedelim}
  {\usebibmacro{postnote}}

\makeatletter
\newrobustcmd*{\parentexttrack}[1]{%
  \begingroup
  \blx@blxinit
  \blx@setsfcodes
  \blx@bibopenparen#1\blx@bibcloseparen
  \endgroup}

\AtEveryCite{%
  \let\parentext=\parentexttrack%
  \let\bibopenparen=\bibopenbracket%
  \let\bibcloseparen=\bibclosebracket}
\makeatother  

\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

% here the doc begins
\begin{document}
  parencite:\parencite{aksin} cite:\cite{companion} textcite:\textcite{knuth:ct}
  \printbibliography
\end{document}

you will get

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[Tex/LaTex] Biblatex, author-year, square brackets

An alternative to lockstep's solution is to redefine the high-level parentheses commands. With the default option setting parentracker=true, these are context-sensitive; nested parentheses may be set as brackets, depending on the nesting level.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=authoryear]{biblatex}

%\ExecuteBibliographyOptions{parentracker=false}

\makeatletter

\newrobustcmd*{\parentexttrack}[1]{%
  \begingroup
  \blx@blxinit
  \blx@setsfcodes
  \blx@bibopenparen#1\blx@bibcloseparen
  \endgroup}

\AtEveryCite{%
  \let\parentext=\parentexttrack%
  \let\bibopenparen=\bibopenbracket%
  \let\bibcloseparen=\bibclosebracket}

\makeatother

\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\begin{document}
\null\vfill\noindent
Filler text \parencite[see][59--63]{markey}. \\
Filler text \parencite[see][\pno~59 \parentext{last paragraph}]{markey}. \\
Filler text \parencite[see][\pno~59 \brackettext{last paragraph}]{markey}. \\
\parentext{Filler text \parencite[see][\pno~59 \parentext{last paragraph}]{markey}.} \\
\brackettext{Filler text \parencite[see][\pno~59 \parentext{last paragraph}]{markey}.} \\
\citeauthor{markey} show that this is filler text \parencite*{markey}. \\
\textcite[see][\pno~59 \parentext{last paragraph}]{markey} show that this is filler text. \\
Filler text \autocite{markey}. \\
\citeauthor{markey} show that this is filler text \autocite*{markey}. \\
Filler text.\smartcite[\pno~59 \brackettext{last paragraph}]{markey}
Filler text.\footnote{More filler text \smartcite[see][\pno~59 \brackettext{last paragraph}]{markey}.} \\
\parencites{markey,knuth:ct:b} \\
\textcites{markey,knuth:ct:b} \\
\printbibliography
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Footnote and square brackets in biblatex

First of all : no, you are not wrong.

Biblatex manual is a bit daunting and sometimes seems confusing. However, part of the complexity comes from the fact that this is a very powerful tool to choose from different citations schemes, in text and in the bibliography. It allows for many tweaking.

It is probably the best package to deal with bibliography, and very often allows to do specific things without having to deal with special commands, only by configuring the options.

I have to admit, however, that your requirement is a bit difficult to tackle directly and requires some coding. The question has somehow been answered here : Biblatex cite with footnote only once, with use of brackets.

Please take some time looking at the question and, if this seems to be what you are looking for, try implementing the proposed solution. If this does not work, you can describe what is different from your needs.

EDIT : the following sentence is not applicable to the solution I pointed out, as mentionned by Audrey : As for the fact that the citation in footnote should be the complete one, you should probably use the citestyle=verbose option of biblatex or a variation of it.

On a side note, could you explain why you are using natbib=true as an option?

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