bibdeskbiberbiblatex
Apologies if this question has been posted somewhere else, but I have not managed to find an answer that works for me.
I am trying to create a bibliography using Harvard style, using BibDesk to create the .bib file, and Biber and BibLatex.
However, the bibliography contains the DOI, the URL, the ISSN, a further e-print URL – all things I do not want.
My question is: is there a way to delete these fields in BibDesk, so that they are absent in the .bib file?
For the general case, when the fields you're wanting to reorder don't necessarily appear at the end, biblatex's \clearfield-type macros and the xpatch package come in handy.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage[style=verbose,backref=true]{biblatex}
\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage{xpatch}
\newbibmacro*{addendum+pubstate+pageref}{%
\usebibmacro{addendum+pubstate}%
\clearfield{addendum}%
\clearfield{pubstate}%
\setunit{\bibpagerefpunct}\newblock
\usebibmacro{pageref}%
\clearlist{pageref}%
\newunit\newblock}
\xpretobibmacro{doi+eprint+url}{\usebibmacro{addendum+pubstate+pageref}}{}{}
\xpretobibmacro{eprint}{\usebibmacro{addendum+pubstate+pageref}}{}{}
\xpretobibmacro{url+urldate}{\usebibmacro{addendum+pubstate+pageref}}{}{}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\begin{document}
\null\vfill\noindent
Filler text.\footcite{bertram,kastenholz,ctan,itzhaki}
\printbibliography
\end{document}
The construction
\@ifundefined{ver@biblatex.sty}
{\@latex@error
{Missing 'biblatex' package}
{The bibliography requires the 'biblatex' package.}
\aftergroup\endinput}
{}
is a test with two branches, which checks if biblatex is loaded. If it is, then \ver@biblatex.sty is defined and nothing happens. If it is not defined, the .tex file which read the .bbl file did not load biblatex. In that case an error is raised. Thus this is a safety precaution, not an error.
Best Answer
There is no need to remove these fields from the
bibtexfiles. All you have to do is to use theisbn,diiandurloption of biblatex and set them to false, i.e.,Alternatively you can use
to remove other unwanted fields.