[Tex/LaTex] Parentheses around citations with biblatex

biblatexciting

From biblatex's documentation, p. 94: \cite and \Cite print the citation without any additions such as parentheses.

Then why does the following code print "[1]."?

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{biblatex}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{A01,
  author = {Author, A.},
  year = {2001},
  title = {Alpha},
}
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}
\cite{A01}.
\end{document}

(Biblatex: cite command to create numeric citation without parentheses? provides a solution, but I'm looking for the reason of this behaviour. Is it misconfiguration?)

Best Answer

The default style is numeric, and to quote a little bit more from the manual:

These are the bare citation commands. They print the citation without any additions such as parentheses. The numeric and alphabetic styles still wrap the label in square brackets since the reference may be ambiguous otherwise

(Emphasis mine.)

Hence, that output is to expected, and by design.

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