+[[!meta title="Biblatex format for AJHG"]]
+
+I'm working on a paper on the genetic basis of lupus, which I'm
+submitting to the
+[American Journal of Human Genetics](http://www.cell.com/AJHG/), and
+since I've recently switched to the wonderful
+[biblatex](http://www.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex) and
+[biber](http://biblatex-biber.sourceforge.net/) from the standard
+bibtex, I've had to figure out how to customize the bibliography and
+citation format to fit the
+[standards of the journal](http://images.cell.com/images/EdImages/ajhg/AJHG_Information_for_Authors.pdf).
+Luckily, there are lots of good examples on
+[TeX's stackexchange](http://tex.stackechange.com), which enabled me
+to figure out how to do all of this.
+
+The following code in the preamble does almost all of the hard lifting:
+
+ \usepackage[backend=biber,hyperref=true,doi=false,url=false,isbn=false,maxbibnames=10,minbibnames=10,sorting=none,firstinits=true,autocite=superscript,style=numeric-comp]{biblatex}
+ \renewbibmacro{in:}{%
+ \ifentrytype{article}{}{%
+ \printtext{\bibstring{in}\intitlepunct}}}
+ % from http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12806/guidelines-for-customizing-biblatex-styles
+ \DeclareFieldFormat
+ [article,inbook,incollection,inproceedings,patent,thesis,unpublished,manual]
+ {title}{#1\isdot}
+ \DeclareFieldFormat{journaltitle}{#1}
+ \DeclareFieldFormat[article,periodical]{volume}{\mkbibemph{#1}}
+ \DeclareFieldFormat{year}{(#1)}
+ \DeclareNameAlias{default}{last-first}
+ \DeclareFieldFormat{pages}{#1}
+ %\renewbibmacro{journal}{#1}%
+ % from http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/6743/biblatex-changing-the-order-of-entries
+ \renewbibmacro*{journal+issuetitle}{%
+ % \setunit*{\addspace}%
+ % (\printfield{year})%
+ % \usebibmacro{date}%
+ \setunit*{\addspace}%
+ \usebibmacro{journal}%
+ \setunit*{\addspace}%
+ \iffieldundef{series}
+ {}
+ {\newunit
+ \printfield{series}%
+ \setunit{\addspace}}%
+ \newunit%
+ \printfield{volume}%
+ % \setunit{\addspace}% DELETED
+ % \usebibmacro{issue+date}% DELETED
+ % \setunit{\addcolon\space}% DELETED
+ % \usebibmacro{issue}% DELETED
+ \newunit}
+ \renewbibmacro*{title}{%
+ \printfield{year}%
+ \setunit*{\addspace}%
+ \newunit
+ \ifboolexpr{
+ test {\iffieldundef{title}}
+ and
+ test {\iffieldundef{subtitle}}
+ }
+ {}
+ {\printtext[title]{%
+ \printfield[titlecase]{title}%
+ \setunit{\subtitlepunct}%
+ \printfield[titlecase]{subtitle}}%
+ \newunit}%
+ \printfield{titleaddon}}
+ \renewbibmacro*{publisher+location+date}{%
+ \setunit*{\addspace}%
+ \printtext[parens]{\printlist{location}%
+ \iflistundef{publisher}
+ {\setunit*{\addcomma\space}}
+ {\setunit*{\addcolon\space}}%
+ \printlist{publisher}%
+ % \setunit*{\addcomma\space}%
+ % \usebibmacro{date}%
+ }%
+ \newunit}
+
+This, coupled with:
+
+ \newcommand{\citep}[1]{\autocite{#1}}
+ \newcommand{\citet}[1]{\citeauthor{#1}\autocite{#1}}
+
+enables my standard natbib workflow of \citep and \citet to work
+properly too. Eventually I'll move to just using \autocite everywhere,
+but for now, that's good enough.
+
+[[!tag latex tech biblatex]]