I do not like the way the commands \cite
or \parencite
produce page numbers. If I give a command \cite[43]{XXX2015}
, it produces:
XXX2015, p.43.
What I would like is:
XXX2015:43.
I understand that the command \citet
is supposed to give me this, and I also understand from searching around that I should load the natbib
package to get that. However, there is some compatibility issue related to what I already have in my preamble. I guess it must be the biblatex
package or backend
package (if that is indeed a package). If I just load the natbib
package I get the error message:
command \bighang already defined.
Can I continue to use the backend
package with this setting and just add something? Here is a MWWW:
\documentclass[12]{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[backend=biber, style=authoryear-comp, sortcites=false, maxcitenames=2, mincitenames=1, maxbibnames=4, uniquelist=false]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{ref.bib}
\begin{document}
Blablabla. \cite[43]{Wolfe2015}
\end{document}
Best Answer
natbib
andbiblatex
are indeed incompatible.biblatex
is incompatible with most bibliography management packages, since it implements citations and bibliography in a way that is fundamentally different from the traditional BibTeX way of doing things. Normally that is not too bad, sincebiblatex
can do many things out of the box so that the extra packages are not needed.Fortunately
natbib
is irrelevant to your issue.biblatex
can do what you want without additional packages (and without thenatbib
compatibility mode, that I would avoid if it is not necessary, see also Is there a disadvantage to using natbib=true with biblatex?).You only need to redefine the
postnote
formats to stop printing the page prefix. Then we change the punctuation between citation and postnote to a colon.gives
Incidentally,
\citet
would normally give citations of the formthe
biblatex
equivalent to\citet
is\textcite
(just like the equivalent to\citep
is\parencite
). Thenatbib
compatibility mode allows you to write\citet
to get\textcite
withbiblatex
, but it also changes the behaviour of the starred versions and changes some punctuation (Is there a disadvantage to using natbib=true with biblatex?).