[Tex/LaTex] Problems in suppressing “series” field

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I can't manage to suppress the field "series" with biblatex. I get the error: 

ERROR: Package keyval Error: series undefined.

This is my code:

\usepackage[
    backend=bibtex,
    series=false,
    isbn=false,
    url=false,
    doi=false,
    eprint=false,
]{biblatex}

Best Answer

Remove series=false from the options when loading biblatex and write this in the preamble:

\DeclareSourcemap{
  \maps[datatype=bibtex]{
    \map{
       \step[fieldset=series, null]
    }
  }
}

This suppresses that field for all types of entries.

If you want to remove it only for a particular type of entries, let's say article, write

\DeclareSourcemap{
  \maps[datatype=bibtex]{
    \map{
      \pertype{article}
       \step[fieldset=series, null]
    }
  }
}

instead.

Remark 1. You have to switch to biber if you want to be able to use the code. Many biblatex features are unsupported if you use bibtex as a backend...

Remark 2. The option <field>=true/false is available only for the following fields: isbn, url, doi, eprint.

EDIT

As a workaround, when using bibtex as a backend, adding the following line to the preamble

\AtEveryBibitem{\clearfield{series}}

should be the right trick.

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