biblatexmoderncv
This question is a follow-up to an earlier question. I'm using ModernCV with Biblatex to make my CV. I've used the solution given to create a list of publications, sorted by type and by year.
My question is how I can reverse the numbering of the publications (highest first) without changing anything else. Solutions exist for how to do this from multiple .bib files and I may consider that option if this is impossible, but an option where I could continue using a single bib file would be ideal.
\defbibenvironment pretty much takes the same arguments as \newenvironment. For the standard numeric styles the default bibliography environment is defined in numeric.bbx. You can adapt this definition to use the list layout parameters for moderncv's thebibliography environment. The following document takes the parameters from moderncvstyleclassic.sty.
\documentclass{moderncv}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\defbibenvironment{bibliography}
{\list
{\printtext[labelnumberwidth]{% label format from numeric.bbx
\printfield{labelprefix}%
\printfield{labelnumber}}}
{\setlength{\topsep}{0pt}% layout parameters from moderncvstyleclassic.sty
\setlength{\labelwidth}{\hintscolumnwidth}%
\setlength{\labelsep}{\separatorcolumnwidth}%
\leftmargin\labelwidth%
\advance\leftmargin\labelsep}%
\sloppy\clubpenalty4000\widowpenalty4000}
{\endlist}
{\item}
\moderncvstyle{classic}
\moderncvcolor{blue}
\firstname{John}
\familyname{Doe}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\begin{document}
\makecvtitle
\nocite{companion,knuth:ct:a,knuth:ct:b}
\printbibliography[title={Publications}]
\end{document}
Bibliography and citation formatting is complicated, and that's why the biblatex package, which has thought through the issues extremely thoroughly, is also complicated. As end users, we tend to think of simple cases without realizing that making the simple case more general is not always simple.
For this reason, especially if you are a beginner, (and even if you're not) you should try to adapt to some of the standard styles offered by the biblatex package itself, or use one of the many excellent user contributed styles that implement most of the major schemes. This is especially true if you have any flexibility in your choice of styles (i.e., you are not bound to a very particular style by a specific journal, for example.)
For a list of available styles see the biblatex section of:
For author/year citations, the apa style for biblatex is an excellent implementation of the APA style.
There are two main formatting considerations for any citation system: the formatting of the citations themselves in the text, and the formatting of the bibliography items in the bibliography. The biblatex package treats both of these separately, although there are obviously dependencies between the two. In this answer I will discuss only author/year and numeric schemes, which are common in the natural and social sciences. Footnote style citations as used in the humanities are quite different, and pose their own set of problems (although biblatex is also designed to deal with them.)
There are three basic citation commands in biblatex plus some automatic ones. All of the citation commands allow two optional arguments: a prenote and a postnote.
\cite standard citation\parencite standard citation in parentheses\footcite like \cite but puts the citation in a footnote.There are many variants of these commands. See ยง3.7 of the biblatex manual for more details.
Among the more useful special cite commands are:
\textcite is like \cite but puts the label text (like the year in an author/year system) in parentheses.\autocite is designed for (almost) seamlessly transitioning between \parencite and \footcite, for example, and provides a higher level markup that can be mapped to either command.\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@book{Labov1972,
Address = {Philadelphia},
Author = {William Labov},
Publisher = {University of Pennsylvania Press},
Title = {Sociolinguistic Patterns},
Year = {1972}}
@book{Chomsky1957,
Address = {The Hague},
Author = {Noam Chomsky},
Publisher = {Mouton},
Title = {Syntactic Structures},
Year = {1957}}
}
\end{filecontents}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=authoryear]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{document}
Some famous linguists wrote a couple of books \autocite{Labov1972,Chomsky1957}.
\printbibliography
\end{document}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=numeric]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{document}
Some famous linguists wrote a couple of books \autocite{Labov1972,Chomsky1957}.
\printbibliography
\end{document}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[citestyle=authoryear,bibstyle=numeric]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{document}
Some famous linguists wrote a couple of books \autocite{Labov1972,Chomsky1957}.
\printbibliography
\end{document}
biblatexAs with other bibliography packages, compiling documents with biblatex requires a multi-step process. First you compile your document using your regular TeX engine (pdflatex, xelatex, or lualatex) and then you run a separate program biber which processes the bibliography. For example, if you are compiling any of the of the MWEs shown above, using the filename test.tex, then the full compilation command chain would be the following. (Replace pdflatex with xelatex or lualatex as needed.)
pdflatex test.tex
biber test
pdflatex test.tex
pdflatex test.tex
where biber test is short-hand for biber test.bcf.
Since most people use IDEs to process their source documents, it's helpful to know how to set up your editor to use biber instead of bibtex. See this question for details on that.
biber? Why can't I use bibtex?Although it's possible with some biblatex styles to use bibtex to process the bibliography by passing the [backend=bibtex] option to the package, most modern styles depend on the use of biber so you should generally not use bibtex to process documents that use biblatex.
Best Answer
If you just wish to reverse the numbering - not the order - then you can use the following approach:
The idea is to count the number of references by tapping into each "
\bibitem". Once all is counted, we insert a\labelat the end of the document (using\AtEndDocument). This label is retrieved and used in a calculation (thanks to the expandable\getrefnumberfromrefcount) to reverse the numbering.For multiple bibliographies per document, you could use
\citesinthissection{<num>}as defined below:Remember to update the count of items whenever you add elements to your bibliography. Use the
defernumbers=trueglobal option andresetnumbers=trueoption from the second\printbibliographyonwards. You may need to use options likekeyword/notkeywordoptions in order to print exactly only what you want in each bibliography part.