posts/biblatex_ajhg_style.mdwn

   1 [[!meta title="Biblatex format for AJHG"]]
   2
   3 I'm working on a paper on the genetic basis of lupus, which I'm
   4 submitting to the
   5 [American Journal of Human Genetics](http://www.cell.com/AJHG/), and
   6 since I've recently switched to the wonderful
   7 [biblatex](http://www.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex) and
   8 [biber](http://biblatex-biber.sourceforge.net/) from the standard
   9 bibtex, I've had to figure out how to customize the bibliography and
  10 citation format to fit the
  11 [standards of the journal](http://images.cell.com/images/EdImages/ajhg/AJHG_Information_for_Authors.pdf).
  12 Luckily, there are lots of good examples on
  13 [TeX's stackexchange](http://tex.stackechange.com), which enabled me
  14 to figure out how to do all of this.
  15
  16 The following code in the preamble does almost all of the hard lifting:
  17
  18      \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}
  19      \renewbibmacro{in:}{%
  20        \ifentrytype{article}{}{%
  21        \printtext{\bibstring{in}\intitlepunct}}}
  22      % from http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12806/guidelines-for-customizing-biblatex-styles
  23      \DeclareFieldFormat
  24        [article,inbook,incollection,inproceedings,patent,thesis,unpublished,manual]
  25        {title}{#1\isdot}
  26      \DeclareFieldFormat{journaltitle}{#1}
  27      \DeclareFieldFormat[article,periodical]{volume}{\mkbibemph{#1}}
  28      \DeclareFieldFormat{year}{(#1)}
  29      \DeclareNameAlias{default}{last-first}
  30      \DeclareFieldFormat{pages}{#1}
  31      %\renewbibmacro{journal}{#1}%
  32      % from http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/6743/biblatex-changing-the-order-of-entries
  33      \renewbibmacro*{journal+issuetitle}{%
  34      %   \setunit*{\addspace}%
  35      %   (\printfield{year})%
  36      %  \usebibmacro{date}%
  37        \setunit*{\addspace}%
  38        \usebibmacro{journal}%
  39        \setunit*{\addspace}%
  40        \iffieldundef{series}
  41          {}
  42          {\newunit
  43           \printfield{series}%
  44           \setunit{\addspace}}%
  45         \newunit%
  46        \printfield{volume}%
  47      %  \setunit{\addspace}% DELETED
  48      %  \usebibmacro{issue+date}% DELETED
  49      %  \setunit{\addcolon\space}% DELETED
  50      %  \usebibmacro{issue}% DELETED
  51        \newunit}
  52      \renewbibmacro*{title}{%
  53        \printfield{year}%
  54        \setunit*{\addspace}%
  55        \newunit
  56        \ifboolexpr{
  57          test {\iffieldundef{title}}
  58          and
  59          test {\iffieldundef{subtitle}}
  60        }
  61          {}
  62          {\printtext[title]{%
  63             \printfield[titlecase]{title}%
  64             \setunit{\subtitlepunct}%
  65             \printfield[titlecase]{subtitle}}%
  66           \newunit}%
  67        \printfield{titleaddon}}
  68      \renewbibmacro*{publisher+location+date}{%
  69        \setunit*{\addspace}%
  70        \printtext[parens]{\printlist{location}%
  71        \iflistundef{publisher}
  72          {\setunit*{\addcomma\space}}
  73          {\setunit*{\addcolon\space}}%
  74        \printlist{publisher}%
  75      %  \setunit*{\addcomma\space}%
  76      %  \usebibmacro{date}%
  77        }%
  78        \newunit}
  79
  80 This, coupled with:
  81
  82      \newcommand{\citep}[1]{\autocite{#1}}
  83      \newcommand{\citet}[1]{\citeauthor{#1}\autocite{#1}}
  84
  85 enables my standard natbib workflow of \citep and \citet to work
  86 properly too. Eventually I'll move to just using \autocite everywhere,
  87 but for now, that's good enough.
  88
  89 [[!tag latex tech biblatex]]