[Tex/LaTex] Titles ending with punctuation in biblatex-ieee

biblatexpunctuation

I've just recently started using the biblatex package (with the biblatex-ieee style), and I've run into a small problem. I've looked at the .bbx file, and it seems like it should be easy to change, although I'm perhaps not familiar enough with this to see how.

I have a citation with a title ending in a question mark, such as:

@article{Doe2012,
author={Doe, J.},
title={This title is a question?},
journal={Proc. IEEE},
year={2012},
volume={1234},
number={12},
pages={345--678},
month={Dec.},
}

This produces the something looking like:

[1] J. Doe, “This title is a question?,” Proc. IEEE, vol. 1234, no.
12, pp. 345–678, Dec. 2012.

I would like to remove the comma following the question mark. The bibtex version of the IEEE style does not do this, and I don't remember seeing this kind of double-punctuation in any IEEE publications. Naturally, I would like to keep the comma if the title does not end in a punctuation mark. Otherwise, I think I could just use \nopunct.

Can anyone see how I might modify the style file to change this behaviour?

Best Answer

You need to load the babel package.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=ieee,backend=biber]{biblatex}
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{Doe2012,
author={Doe, J.},
title={This title is a question?},
journal={Proc. IEEE},
year={2012},
volume={1234},
number={12},
pages={345--678},
month={Dec.},
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{document}
Some text \autocite{Doe2012}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

biblatex is aware of babel and uses it when deciding on how to deal with punctuation inside quotation marks.

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This answer will be a work in progress, and it will quite possibly not cover all requests. That said, do the following:

Delete the code line \DeclareRangeCommands{\pno\ppno};
Add the code line \DeclareFieldFormat[book]{title}{\mkbibquote{\mkbibemph{#1}}};
Add the package option dateabbrev=false.

One way to switch from "t." to "vol." for articles would be to choose language=english. Is that what you want? Please explain.

EDIT: For @book entries, use the pagetotal field instead of the pages field.

EDIT 2: For @book & friends, add the following to your preamble:

\renewbibmacro*{publisher+location+date}{%
  \printlist{publisher}%
  \setunit*{\addcomma\space}%
  \printlist{location}%
  \setunit*{\addcomma\space}%
  \usebibmacro{date}%
  \newunit}

To be consistent, you should also change the bibmacros institution+location+date and organization+location+date along these lines. (The originals are located in standard.bbx.)

EDIT 3: For @article, the following seems to work at first glance (and I didn't bother to check it thouroughly):

\renewbibmacro*{journal+issuetitle}{%
  \usebibmacro{journal}%
  \setunit*{\addspace}%
  \iffieldundef{series}
    {}
    {\newunit
     \printfield{series}%
     \setunit{\addspace}}%
  \usebibmacro{issue+date}%
  \setunit{\addcolon\space}%
  \usebibmacro{issue}%
  \setunit{\addcomma\space}%
  \usebibmacro{volume+number+eid}%
  \newunit}

@Doompa: That's it for now. If your style still needs finetuning, please add any requests to your original question (your edits became quite confusing for me). Also think about why you want a particular change.

[Tex/LaTex] End quotes and punctuation when using biblatex

To a large extent, you can get American punctuation patterns automatically with biblatex by loading babel with the [american] option.

For your bibliography items themselves

If you load the babel package with the option [american], biblatex will put the punctuation inside the quotation marks automatically. This is explained in section 3.91 of the biblatex manual.

For in text quotations

The best way to do this automatically is to use the \textquote command of the csquotes package. You need to change the default formatting for the citation part of the quote, and you need to redefine the \mktextquote command. This is explained in section 9.2 of the csquotes manual.

Here is an example document. Notice that the quotation marks in the text quotation and in the bibliography item are in the correct place for American standards. The example works the same way with the biblatex-chicago package loaded.

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[citestyle=verbose]{biblatex}
%\usepackage{biblatex-chicago} % or load this instead
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\renewcommand{\mktextquote}[6]{#1#2#4#5#3#6}
\renewcommand*{\mkcitation}{}
\bibliography{biblatex-examples}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}

Here is a quotation \textquote[\autocite{shore}]{Some text}.

\end{document}

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