[Tex/LaTex] Suppress author option: remove the name of an author already used in text

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Sometimes, I write the name of an author in a sentence before the citation. For this reason, I'd like to suppress it in the citation. How can I do that?

Is the only solution to create a new macro, e.g. \citewoauth, similar to \cite but without author names, or am I missing something?
[The MWE (non-working actually) below is with \parencite but the general idea is similar.]

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
  @article{doe_2011,
    title = {A title},
    author = {John Doe},
    journal = {Journal},
    number = {99},
    pages = {483--488},
    date = {2015},
  }
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=verbose-trad2,language=french,backend=biber]{biblatex}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}
Some text\footnote{According to John Doe, it is \enquote{a complete nonsense} \parencite[485]{doe_2011}}

\printbibliography
\end{document}

Best Answer

The authoryear and authortitle styles provide \cite* and \parencite* for that exact purpose. The verbose styles do not have such a command.

You can use the \AtNextCite hook to disable the display of names in the next citation

\makeatletter
\newcommand{\int@suppauth}{%
  \def\ifciteibid{\@secondoftwo}%
  \renewbibmacro*{cite:name}{}%
  \renewbibmacro*{cite:idem}{}%
  \renewbibmacro*{author}{}%
  \renewbibmacro*{editor+others}{}%
  \renewbibmacro*{translator+others}{}}

\newcommand{\suppauth}{\AtNextCite{\int@suppauth}}
\makeatother

The first line in \int@suppauth turns off any "ibid." that might occur, the second and third take care of suppressing names and "idem"s inn short citations, while the last three are for the bibliography driver (long first citations). This will also work if the relevant name to suppress is the editor of a work.

Now you can just say \suppauth\cite{foo} to suppress the author/labelname in the following citation.

\makeatletter
\DeclareCiteCommand*{\parencite}[\mkbibparens]
  {\int@suppauth
   \usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \usebibmacro{cite}}
  {\multicitedelim}
  {\usebibmacro{cite:postnote}}

\DeclareCiteCommand*{\cite}
  {\int@suppauth
   \usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \usebibmacro{cite}}
  {\multicitedelim}
  {\usebibmacro{cite:postnote}}
\makeatother

then emulates the behaviour of the authoryear and authortitle style's \cite* and \parencite*.

MWE

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=verbose-trad2,backend=biber]{biblatex}

\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\makeatletter
\newcommand{\int@suppauth}{%
  \def\ifciteibid{\@secondoftwo}%
  \renewbibmacro*{cite:name}{}%
  \renewbibmacro*{cite:idem}{}%
  \renewbibmacro*{author}{}%
  \renewbibmacro*{editor+others}{}%
  \renewbibmacro*{translator+others}{}}

\newcommand{\suppauth}{\AtNextCite{\int@suppauth}}

\DeclareCiteCommand*{\parencite}[\mkbibparens]
  {\int@suppauth
   \usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \usebibmacro{cite}}
  {\multicitedelim}
  {\usebibmacro{cite:postnote}}

\DeclareCiteCommand*{\cite}
  {\int@suppauth
   \usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \usebibmacro{cite}}
  {\multicitedelim}
  {\usebibmacro{cite:postnote}}
\makeatother



\begin{document}
Lorem\footnote{According to Sigfridsson, it is \enquote{a complete nonsense} \suppauth\parencite[485]{sigfridsson}}
 ipsum\footcite{geer} dolor\footnote{According to Sigfridsson again, it is \enquote{a complete nonsense} \suppauth\parencite[485]{sigfridsson}}
\citereset
Lorem\footnote{According to Sigfridsson, it is \enquote{a complete nonsense} \parencite*[485]{sigfridsson}}
 ipsum\footcite{geer} dolor\footnote{According to Sigfridsson again, it is \enquote{a complete nonsense} \parencite*[485]{sigfridsson}}

\printbibliography
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] biblatex messing up citation entry with lots of authors

This problem is due to biblatex-apa's (apa.bbx's) apaauthor name format; you might want to notify the author of this small bug.

The string and others in the author list sets ifmorenames to true. apaauthor checks for this case whenever a name is printed, not just at the very end of the list; consequently it prints the andothers string ("et al.") after each name.

The fix is to add the following lines to your preamble.

\DeclareNameFormat{apaauthor}{%
  \ifthenelse{\value{listcount}=\maxprtauth\AND\value{listcount}<\value{listtotal}}
    {\addcomma\addspace\ldots\addspace}
    {\ifthenelse{\value{listcount}>\maxprtauth\AND\value{listcount}<\value{listtotal}}
      {}
      {\ifthenelse{\iffieldequalstr{doubtfulauthor}{true}}
        {\mkbibbrackets{\usebibmacro{name:apa:last-first}{#1}{#3}{#4}{#5}{#7}?}}
        {\usebibmacro{name:apa:last-first}{#1}{#3}{#4}{#5}{#7}}}}%
  \ifthenelse{\value{listcount}=\value{listtotal}}% this test is new
    {\ifmorenames{\andothersdelim\bibstring{andothers}}{}}{}}

The MWE

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@Article{boker2011,
Author = {Boker, S. and Neale, M. and Maes, H. and Wilde, M. and
Spiegel, M. and Brick, T. and Spies, J. and Estabrook,
R. and Kenny, S. and Bates, T. and others},
Title = {Open{M}x: {A}n open source extended structural
equation modeling framework},
Journal = {Psychometrika},
Volume = {76},
Number = {2},
Pages = {306--317},
year = 2011
}


\documentclass{apa6}
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=apa,maxnames=999,sortcites=true,sorting=nyt,apabackref=true,backend=biber]{biblatex}
\DeclareLanguageMapping{american}{american-apa}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\DeclareNameFormat{apaauthor}{%
  \ifthenelse{\value{listcount}=\maxprtauth\AND\value{listcount}<\value{listtotal}}
    {\addcomma\addspace\ldots\addspace}
    {\ifthenelse{\value{listcount}>\maxprtauth\AND\value{listcount}<\value{listtotal}}
      {}
      {\ifthenelse{\iffieldequalstr{doubtfulauthor}{true}}
        {\mkbibbrackets{\usebibmacro{name:apa:last-first}{#1}{#3}{#4}{#5}{#7}?}}
        {\usebibmacro{name:apa:last-first}{#1}{#3}{#4}{#5}{#7}}}}%
  \ifthenelse{\value{listcount}=\value{listtotal}}
    {\ifmorenames{\andothersdelim\bibstring{andothers}}{}}{}}

\shorttitle{IFA}

\begin{document}

OpenMx \parencite{boker2011,aksin,wilde,murray}

\printbibliography
\end{document}

then yields

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Update 2013-10: This has been corrected in biblatex-apa version 6.4 according to a comment below the question from user PLK.

[Tex/LaTex] Citing (author, journalabbr., year) needed

First thing to do is to add a field for the journal abbreviation to the article entrytype, journalabbr in the MWE. Therefore you need to declare a datamodel (an extra file; in the MWE I've used filecontents to simulate that) and you have to tell biblatex/biber to use it in the package options.

Then you have to modify the cite command, so it fits your needs. \citep from the authoryear-style (your citestyle) uses the \cite command. There you just have to add a switch, which checks if the field journalabbr is empty or not, and prints it out or not.

Last but not least you have to add the abbreviation fields to the entries.

MWE:

\begin{filecontents}{min.bib}
@article{boisson2003unexpected,
  title={Unexpected protein families including cell defense components feature in the N-myristoylome of a higher eukaryote},
  author={Boisson, B. and Giglione, Carmela and Meinnel, Thierry},
  journal={Journal of Biological Chemistry},
  journalabbr={JBC},
  year={2003},
  publisher={ASBMB}
}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{authorjabbryear.dbx}
\ProvidesFile{authorjabbryear.dbx}
\DeclareDatamodelFields[type=field,datatype=literal]{journalabbr}
\DeclareDatamodelEntryfields[article]{journalabbr}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass[fontsize=11pt, paper=a4, ngerman, DIV=calc]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[scaled]{helvet}
\renewcommand*\familydefault{\sfdefault}
\usepackage{fixltx2e}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[german=quotes]{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=authoryear-comp,sortcites=true,sorting=nyt,isbn=false,natbib=true, citestyle=authoryear,bibstyle=authoryear,backend=biber,maxnames=1,maxcitenames=1,
,datamodel=authorjabbryear%added!
] {biblatex}

\DefineBibliographyStrings{ngerman}{ andothers = {{et\,al\adddot}} }

\renewbibmacro*{cite}{%from authoryear.cbx
  \iffieldundef{shorthand}
    {\ifthenelse{\ifnameundef{labelname}\OR\iffieldundef{labelyear}}
       {\usebibmacro{cite:label}%
        \setunit{\addspace}}
       {\printnames{labelname}%
        \setunit{\nameyeardelim}}%
     \iffieldundef{journalabbr}{}{%
        \printfield{journalabbr}%
        \setunit{\nameyeardelim}%
        }%
     \usebibmacro{cite:labelyear+extrayear}}
    {\usebibmacro{cite:shorthand}}}

\addbibresource{min.bib}

\begin{document}

\citep{boisson2003unexpected} 

How it should look like: 

(Boisson et al., JBC, 2003)

\printbibliography

\end{document}

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