[Tex/LaTex] ISBN-13 in bibtex

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What is the proper way to put an ISBN-13 number into a bibtex entry?

What do I have to do to make it show up in the bibliography?

I have the following book:

Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New Paperback
January 1, 1996
by Peter Drucker
Paperback: 270 pages
Publisher: Transaction Publishers (January 1, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1560006226
ISBN-13: 978-1560006220
Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds

I am building a bibtex database and am expecting in the long term to track ISBN-13 numbers as the publishing industry switches over (…any decade now…). I am curious how the proper way to store these numbers would be.

My current bibtex entry is:

@book{drucker1959landmarks,
  title={Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New},
  author={Drucker, Peter},
  publisher={Transaction Publishers},
  year={1996},
  ISBN={1560006226},
  note={[original edition 1959]}
}

I suppose the new entry might be ISBN-13 or ISBN13 but I am looking for precidence on how to enter this.

Best Answer

Standard bibtex styles cover only one type of ISBN (it does not matter if you use the 13 or 10 digit format).

With biblatex you can create new fields for bibtex entries, let us say ISBN13 and ISBN10. Then all you have to do is redefine how the isbn field is printed, e.g., 

\DeclareFieldFormat{isbn}{\textsc{isbn}~\printfield{isbn13}}

or you can create option switches or whatever your need.

The MWE below illustrates how to create the fields and redefine the isbn field. 

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\usepackage[isbn=true]{biblatex}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@book{drucker1959landmarks,
  title={Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New},
  author={Drucker, Peter},
  publisher={Transaction Publishers},
  year={1996},
  isbn={1560006226},
  ISBN10={1560006226},
  ISBN13={978-1560006220},
  note={[original edition 1959]}
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{filecontents}{biblatex-dm.cfg}
\DeclareDatamodelFields[type=field,datatype=literal]{isbn10,isbn13}
\DeclareDatamodelEntryfields[book]{isbn10,isbn13}
\end{filecontents}

\DeclareFieldFormat{isbn}{\textsc{isbn-13}~\printfield{isbn13}, \textsc{isbn-10}~\printfield{isbn10}}

\title{title}
\author{A.U. Thor}

\begin{document}
\nocite{*}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

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