[Tex/LaTex] Modify Biblatex so citations appear as (author, year: pagenos)

biblatexharvard-style

I am really struggling to find a way to modify biblatex authoryear so that it comes out in this modified Harvard style. In case any solution can be helpful to others in the future, this is the style Sage Journals request.

What I want: (author, year: page).Biblatex author year normally produces something like this: (author year, page). By page, I mean the page in the cited document with the referenced material.

Here is a sample bibtex reference and how I would like it to apprear:

    @book{Varshney:2003tn,
    author = {Varshney, Ashutosh},
    title = {{Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life}},
    publisher = {Yale University Press},
    year = {2003},
    series = {Hindus and Muslims in India},
    isbn = {9780300100136},
    language = {English},
    date-modified = {2012-12-14T03:45:28GMT}}

In-text citation:

    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua (Varshney, 2003: 83-85).

Bibliography Entry:

    Varshney, Ashutosh. (2003) *Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India*. Yale University Press.

Any help is much appreciated!

EDIT: Included an example!

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In general, see Guidelines for customizing biblatex styles. In your specific example, don't capitalize "english" in the .bib file.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[english]{babel}

\usepackage[style=authoryear,isbn=false]{biblatex}

\renewcommand*{\nameyeardelim}{\addcomma\space}
\renewcommand*{\postnotedelim}{\addcolon\space}
\DeclareFieldFormat{postnote}{#1}
\DeclareFieldFormat{multipostnote}{#1}

\usepackage{xpatch}
\xpretobibmacro{date+extrayear}{\addperiod\space}{}{}
\xapptobibmacro{date+extrayear}{\nopunct}{}{}

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
    @book{Varshney:2003tn,
    author = {Varshney, Ashutosh},
    title = {{Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life}},
    publisher = {Yale University Press},
    year = {2003},
    series = {Hindus and Muslims in India},
    isbn = {9780300100136},
    language = {english},
    date-modified = {2012-12-14T03:45:28GMT},
}
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}

Some text \autocite[83--85]{Varshney:2003tn}.

\printbibliography

\end{document}

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Note: I didn't tinker with the formatting of the series field; in your "Bibliographic Entry" snippet, "Hindus and Muslims in India" (italic, colon prepended) resembles a subtitle rather than a series title.

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[Tex/LaTex] author-year and footnote citations in biblatex

Some citation commands are intended for use "in the flow of text". Examples include \textcite, \citetitle, \citeauthor and \citeyear. If you stick to these commands and \autocite, you can get by with just a change in biblatex load-time option settings.

In the authoryear styles, \autocite is based on \parencite. In verbose styles, \autocite invokes \smartcite, which behaves like \parencite in footnotes and \footcite inline. The neat thing about \autocite is that it moves punctuation for you. The starred variant \autocite* issues the starred version of its backend citation command. In authoryear styles this is \parencite*, which prints only year.

Possessive citations just require a change to the labelname format in \textcite. In the example below I adapted the solution in this post. Full person names are printed the first time an entry is cited via \textcite or \citeauthor with the help of another answer by domwass. To cope with differences in the construction of the authoryear and verbose citation commands, I've defined some patches using etoolbox extensions by egreg.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=authoryear]{biblatex}
\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}

\makeatletter

% patch bibmacros without optional arguments
\def\act@on@bibmacro#1#2{%
  \expandafter#1\csname abx@macro@\detokenize{#2}\endcsname}
\def\pretobibmacro{\act@on@bibmacro\pretocmd}

% patch citation commands
\def\act@on@citecmd#1#2{%
  \expandafter#1\csname blx@citei@\detokenize{#2}\endcsname}
\def\patchcitecmd{\act@on@citecmd\patchcmd}

% patch default name formats
\def\act@on@nameformat#1#2{%
  \expandafter#1\csname abx@nfd@*@\detokenize{#2}\endcsname}
\def\pretonameformat{\act@on@nameformat\pretocmd}
\def\apptonameformat{\act@on@nameformat\apptocmd}

% track seen labelnames
\newcommand*{\cbx@seennames}{}
\newrobustcmd*{\cbx@nameseen}[1]{\listxadd{\cbx@seennames}{\detokenize{#1}}}
\newrobustcmd*{\cbx@ifnameseen}[1]{\xifinlist{\detokenize{#1}}{\cbx@seennames}}

% define fullname-if-not-seen labelname format
\csletcs{abx@nfd@*@labelname:seen}{abx@nfd@*@labelname}
\pretonameformat{labelname:seen}
  {\cbx@ifnameseen{#1#3#5#7}
     {}{\defcounter{uniquename}{2}\cbx@nameseen{#1#3#5#7}}}{}{}

% define possessive labelname format
\csletcs{abx@nfd@*@labelname:poss}{abx@nfd@*@labelname:seen}
\apptonameformat{labelname:poss}
  {\ifnumequal{\value{listcount}}{\value{liststop}}{'s}{}}{}{}

\makeatother

% use "seen" labelname format in \textcite and \citeauthor
\patchcitecmd{citeauthor}
  {\printnames{labelname}}{\printnames[labelname:seen]{labelname}}{}{}
\patchcitecmd{textcite}
  {\printnames{labelname}}{\printnames[labelname:seen]{labelname}}{}{}
\pretobibmacro{textcite}{\DeclareNameAlias{labelname}{labelname:seen}}{}{}

% define possessive citation commands
\newrobustcmd*{\possalias}{%
  \AtNextCite{\DeclareNameAlias{labelname:seen}{labelname:poss}}}
\newrobustcmd*{\posscite}{\possalias\textcite}
\newrobustcmd*{\Posscite}{\possalias\Textcite}
\newrobustcmd*{\posscites}{\possalias\textcites}
\newrobustcmd*{\Posscites}{\possalias\Textcites}

\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\begin{document}
\null\vfill
\Posscite{knuth:ct:a} Principal Principle is one of my favourite principles.
One of my favourite books is \citetitle{knuth:ct:a}. Everybody should be 
rational \autocite{knuth:ct:a,vangennep}. \Citeauthor{knuth:ct} said a lot
of things. For instance, he said that everybody should be rational 
\autocite*[9]{knuth:ct:a}, and he said that everybody should drive on the
right side of the road \autocite*[10--15]{knuth:ct:c}. \Citeauthor{vangennep}
said that everybody should drive on the left, but otherwise
\posscite[4]{vangennep} work agrees with \citeauthor{knuth:ct}.
\end{document}

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Switching to the verbose style via

\usepackage[style=verbose]{biblatex}

gives

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This solution should work with any of the standard authoryear and verbose variants. Details on these styles can be found in the biblatex documentation.

[Tex/LaTex] two styles in biblatex with textcite, author (year) and (author, year)

Using the authoryear citation style, \parencite uses the macro \nameyeardelim to store what should go between the name and the year in the citation.

In authoryear.cbx, the cite command \parencite is defined in the following way:

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

And in biblatex.def, we find

\newcommand*{\nameyeardelim}{\addspace}

You could define your own cite command to put a comma between the author and the year and put everything in parantheses, e.g. by redefining \nameyeardelim:

\DeclareCiteCommand{\myparencite}[\mkbibparens]
  {\usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\def\nameyeardelim{\addcomma\addspace}%
   \usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \usebibmacro{cite}%
   \def\nameyeardelim{\addspace}}
  {\multicitedelim}
  {\usebibmacro{postnote}}

By changing \nameyeardelim back to simply \addspace after printing this citation, we avoid interference with other citations.

Using the filecontents package to produce a full example, this yields

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=authoryear]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

%This part is for citation style textcite
\DeclareCiteCommand{\textcite}
  {\boolfalse{cbx:parens}}
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \ifboolexpr{ ( not test {\iffieldundef{prenote}} and
                  test {\ifnumequal{\value{citecount}}{1}} ) or
                ( not test {\iffieldundef{postnote}} and
                  test {\ifnumequal{\value{citecount}}{\value{citetotal}}} ) }
     {\usebibmacro{textcite}}
     {\printtext[bibhyperref]{% Apply citation link to bibmacro output
        \DeclareFieldAlias{bibhyperref}{default}% Prevent nested hyperlinks
        \usebibmacro{textcite}%
        \ifbool{cbx:parens}{\bibcloseparen\global\boolfalse{cbx:parens}}{}}}}
  {\ifbool{cbx:parens}{\bibcloseparen\global\boolfalse{cbx:parens}}{}%
   \multicitedelim}
  {\usebibmacro{textcite:postnote}}

\DeclareCiteCommand{\myparencite}[\mkbibparens]
  {\usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\def\nameyeardelim{\addcomma\addspace}%
   \usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \usebibmacro{cite}%
   \def\nameyeardelim{\addspace}}
  {\multicitedelim}
  {\usebibmacro{postnote}}

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}

@article{test,
  title={something},
  author={someone},
  journal={some journal},
  year={2013}
}

\end{filecontents}

\begin{document}
\textcite{test}
\parencite{test}
\myparencite{test}
\textcite{test}
\end{document}

And this results in

compiled pdf

so \myparencite{test} puts a comma between the author and the year.

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