[Tex/LaTex] Use autocite=footnote with style=authoryear-ibid in biblatex and enclose only the year in parentheses

biblatexcitingfootnotes

I'm using the following configuration to cite sources:

\usepackage[backend=bibtex, style=authoryear-ibid, autocite=footnote]{biblatex}

One of my indirect citations looks like this:

\autocite[Vgl.][123]{ruschmeyer}

I get this result:

Vgl. Ruschmeyer u. a. 1995, S. 123

I'd rather like to get this result, according to my university's guidelines:

Vgl. Ruschmeyer u. a. (1995), S. 123

How can I enclose the year in brackets and keep everything else as it is? I've read about \DeclareAutoCiteCommand, but it seems to do a lot more than what I need.

I had a look at this solution, but it does not work for indirect citations and the parentheses also include the pagenumbers.

Thank you for your help!

Best Answer

One solution is to redefine the macro cite:labelyear+extrayear to always wrap the labelyear (and extrayear, if applicable) in parentheses.

\renewbibmacro*{cite:labelyear+extrayear}{%
  \iffieldundef{labelyear}
    {}
    {\printtext[parens]{%
     \printtext[bibhyperref]{%
       \printfield{labelyear}%
       \printfield{extrayear}}}}}

This will make \textcite and \citeyear look weird though, so we can also go for a slightly longer redefinition of the cite macro (along with a definition of a new macro):

\newbibmacro*{cite:labelyear+extrayear:paren}{%
  \iffieldundef{labelyear}
    {}
    {\printtext[parens]{\usebibmacro{cite:labelyear+extrayear}}}}

\renewbibmacro*{cite}{%
  \global\boolfalse{cbx:loccit}%
  \iffieldundef{shorthand}
    {\ifthenelse{\ifciteibid\AND\NOT\iffirstonpage}
       {\usebibmacro{cite:ibid}}
       {\ifthenelse{\ifnameundef{labelname}\OR\iffieldundef{labelyear}}
          {\usebibmacro{cite:label}%
           \setunit{\addspace}}
          {\printnames{labelname}%
           \setunit{\nameyeardelim}}%
        \usebibmacro{cite:labelyear+extrayear:paren}}}
    {\usebibmacro{cite:shorthand}}}

or (to put everything into one macro)

\renewbibmacro*{cite}{%
  \global\boolfalse{cbx:loccit}%
  \iffieldundef{shorthand}
    {\ifthenelse{\ifciteibid\AND\NOT\iffirstonpage}
       {\usebibmacro{cite:ibid}}
       {\ifthenelse{\ifnameundef{labelname}\OR\iffieldundef{labelyear}}
          {\usebibmacro{cite:label}%
           \setunit{\addspace}}
          {\printnames{labelname}%
           \setunit{\nameyeardelim}}%
        \iffieldundef{labelyear}
          {}
          {\printtext[parens]{\usebibmacro{cite:labelyear+extrayear}}}}}
    {\usebibmacro{cite:shorthand}}}

MWE with the second solution

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[backend=bibtex, style=authoryear-ibid, autocite=footnote]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\newbibmacro*{cite:labelyear+extrayear:paren}{%
  \iffieldundef{labelyear}
    {}
    {\printtext[parens]{\usebibmacro{cite:labelyear+extrayear}}}}

\renewbibmacro*{cite}{%
  \global\boolfalse{cbx:loccit}%
  \iffieldundef{shorthand}
    {\ifthenelse{\ifciteibid\AND\NOT\iffirstonpage}
       {\usebibmacro{cite:ibid}}
       {\ifthenelse{\ifnameundef{labelname}\OR\iffieldundef{labelyear}}
          {\usebibmacro{cite:label}%
           \setunit{\addspace}}
          {\printnames{labelname}%
           \setunit{\nameyeardelim}}%
        \usebibmacro{cite:labelyear+extrayear:paren}}}
    {\usebibmacro{cite:shorthand}}}

\begin{document}
Lorem\autocite[Vgl.][123]{markey} ipsum\autocite{knuth:ct:a} dolor\autocite{knuth:ct:b} sit\autocite{knuth:ct:a,knuth:ct:b} amet.

\Textcite{wilde} consecetur.

\printbibliography
\end{document}

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Second solution

Edited again, so most multicite commands work.

Edited so \footcite now works.

A reasonably effective solution that preserves many of biblatex's featuers is provided by adjusting the way the year gets printed in citations. This can be done by redifining the commands associated to cite:year and cite:extrayear. This has the advantage of preserving the ibidem feature.

The code below includes a sample bibliography and then the main file with the redefined citation code.

\begin{filecontents}{test.bib}
@Article{Test,
author = {Author, A. N.},
title = {Article title},
year = 2005,
pages = {10-20},
journal = {Jour.},
vol = {100}
}
@Article{Test2,
author = {Author, A. N.},
title = {Second article},
year = 2005,
pages = {10-20},
journal = {Jour.},
vol = {100}
}
@Article{Test3,
author = {Author, A. B.},
title = {Third article},
year = 2005,
pages = {10-20},
journal = {Jour.},
vol = {100}
}
@Article{Test4,
author = {Author, A. N.},
title = {Fourth article},
year = 2007,
pages = {10-20},
journal = {Jour.},
vol = {100}
}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=authoryear-icomp,autocite=plain]{biblatex}

\addbibresource{test.bib}

\renewbibmacro*{cite:labelyear+extrayear}{%
  \iffieldundef{labelyear}
    {}
    {\iftoggle{blx@footnote}
      {\printtext[bibhyperref]{%
       \printfield{labelyear}%
       \printfield{extrayear}}}
      {\footnote{\printtext[bibhyperref]{%
       \printfield{labelyear}%
       \printfield{extrayear}}}}}}

\renewbibmacro*{cite:extrayear}{%
  \iffieldundef{extrayear}
    {}
    {\iftoggle{blx@footnote}
      {\printtext[bibhyperref]{\printfield{extrayear}}}%
      {\footnote{\printtext[bibhyperref]{%
      \printfield{labelyear}%
      \printfield{extrayear}}}}}}

\renewcommand{\compcitedelim}{\space}

\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\autocite{Test} and
\autocite[page 3]{Test}.
Some text \parencite{Test2}.

Here is a footnote citation\footcite{Test}.

\autocite{Test,Test4,Test3}.

\printbibliography
\end{document}

Sample output

As the above shows this works with \autocite, \parencite and accepts their optional arguments. In this style \autocite is the same as \cite.

I haven't demonstrated \textcite, though its ouptut may be useful sometimes; \footcite has also been set up to work, thanks to biblatex's blx@footnote toggle that detects whether we are in a footnote or not.

The code also takes care of most multiple citations \cite{ref1,ref2}. However, there is a spurious comma, if ref1 and ref2 are two publications from the same author in the same year. Fixing that requires, more substanitial rewriting of the citation style file: each of the commands \cite, \textcite, etc. in author-icomp.cbx contains an explicit comma via \setunit{\addcomma}, that needs to be deleted.

Original solution

Here is a repost of the original solution, as this apparently helps the OP best. It simply defines a newcommand \citepfy (plain-foot-year) that calls \citeauthor followed by a modified \footcite command that produces only the year. It does not accept any of the optional arguments cite commands in biblatex usually do.

\begin{filecontents}{b.bib}
@Article{Test,
author = {Author, A. N.},
title = {Article title},
year = 2005,
pages = {10-20},
journal = {Jour.},
vol = {100}
}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=authoryear-icomp]{biblatex}

\addbibresource{b.bib}

\newcommand{\citepfy}[1]{\citeauthor{#1}\footyearcite{#1}}
\DeclareCiteCommand{\footyearcite}[\mkbibfootnote]
  {\usebibmacro{cite:init}%
   \usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \usebibmacro{citeyear}}
  {}
  {\usebibmacro{cite:postnote}}

\begin{document}
\citepfy{Test}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

Sample output

[Tex/LaTex] How to add square brackets for the authoryear biblatex bibliography style

There is already a field format defined for square brackets - it is called brackets.

In authoryear styles, the year part of the label is created by the macro \printdateextralabel. In your authoryearbrak, you have have a spurious [s] format for \printdatextralabel (line 59). Replacing that with [brackets] yields

Cornelisse, J. W., H. Ferry R. Schoeyer, and Karel F. Wakker [1979]. Rocket Propulsion and Spaceflight Dynamics. Pitman.

Does this answer the question ?

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