How to customize the formatting in BibLaTeX?
To add some focus, customization in the following areas would come in handy: Formatting of fields for specific entry types (e.g., titles of articles not inside quotation marks); Formatting of citation postnotes (i.e., getting rid of “p.”/”pp.”); Spacing and punctuation in the bibliography (e.g., commas instead of periods as unit separators);
How to suppress specific fields in biblatex.def?
To suppress specific fields for in-text-citations (e.g., when using the verbose style), use \\AtEveryCitekey instead of \\AtEveryBibitem. As a general rule, inspect the “Field Formats” section of the file biblatex.def (location: see above).
Where is custom-numeric-comp.bbx in BibLaTeX?
File custom-numeric-comp.bbx(can be placed in the directory of .texfile to be compiled) contains the only settings for entry types I used in my thesis. Appearance of each entry in the final document together with the corresponding entry fields from .bibfile are given below:
What does the last option do in BibLaTeX?
The last option, block=none, controls the spacing between “blocks”. In terms of biblatex, a “block” is usually (but not always) identical to the field of the bibliographic entry (such as title, author, year, and etc.).
Where to find standard.bbx in BibLaTeX?
Let’s delve into the files standard.bbx and .bbx, both of them located in the /bbx subdirectory of your biblatex folder. As per your question, you want to swap the location and publisher fields. Suppose you encounter the following code snippet in standard.bbx:
What are the different styles for BibLaTeX bibliography?
The standard styles shipped with biblatex use two different name formats for the bibliography: default (used by numeric and alphabetic) and sortname (used by authoryear, authortitle, and verbose).