posts/biblatex_gi_style.mdwn

   1 [[!meta title="Biblatex format for Genes & Immunity"]]
   2
   3 Here's a biblatex format for
   4 [Genes & Immunity](http://www.nature.com/gene/index.html) (a
   5 [Nature](http://www.nature.com) imprint) which I needed recently:
   6
   7 The following code in the preamble does almost all of the hard lifting:
   8
   9 [[!format latex """
  10 \usepackage[backend=biber,hyperref=true,doi=true,url=false,isbn=false,maxbibnames=6,minbibnames=6,sorting=none,firstinits=true,terseinits=true,autocite=inline,style=numeric-comp]{biblatex}
  11 \renewbibmacro{in:}{%
  12   \ifentrytype{article}{}{%
  13   \printtext{\bibstring{in}\intitlepunct}}}
  14 % from http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12806/guidelines-for-customizing-biblatex-styles
  15 \DeclareCiteCommand{\parencite}[\mkbibbrackets]
  16   {\usebibmacro{cite:init}%
  17    \usebibmacro{prenote}}
  18   {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
  19    \usebibmacro{cite:comp}}
  20   {}
  21   {\usebibmacro{cite:dump}%
  22    \usebibmacro{postnote}}
  23 \DeclareMultiCiteCommand{\parencites}[\mkbibbrackets]{\parencite}{\multicitedelim}
  24 \DeclareFieldFormat
  25   [article,inbook,incollection,inproceedings,patent,thesis,unpublished,manual]
  26   {title}{#1\isdot}
  27 \DeclareFieldFormat{journaltitle}{\mkbibemph{#1}}
  28 \DeclareFieldFormat[article,periodical]{volume}{\mkbibbold{#1}\addcolon}
  29 \DeclareFieldFormat{year}{#1}
  30 \DeclareNameAlias{default}{last-first}
  31 \DeclareFieldFormat{pages}{#1}
  32 % from http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/17583/biblatex-remove-commas-between-last-and-first-names-in-bibliography
  33 % remove commas between authors and first inits
  34 \renewcommand*{\revsdnamepunct}{}
  35 % from http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/40798/how-do-i-get-et-al-to-appear-in-italics-when-using-textcite-or-citeauthor-w
  36 % make et al. /et al./
  37 \renewbibmacro*{name:andothers}{% Based on name:andothers from biblatex.def
  38   \ifboolexpr{
  39     test {\ifnumequal{\value{listcount}}{\value{liststop}}}
  40     and
  41     test \ifmorenames
  42   }
  43     {\ifnumgreater{\value{liststop}}{1}
  44        {\finalandcomma}
  45        {}%
  46      \andothersdelim\bibstring[\emph]{andothers}}
  47     {}}
  48 % \renewbibmacro{journal}{#1}%
  49 % from http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/6743/biblatex-changing-the-order-of-entries
  50 \renewbibmacro*{journal+issuetitle}{%
  51   \setunit*{\addspace}%
  52   \usebibmacro{journal}%
  53   \setunit*{\addspace}%
  54   \printfield{year}%
  55   \setunit*{\addspace}%
  56   \iffieldundef{series}
  57     {}
  58     {\newunit
  59      \printfield{series}%
  60      \setunit{\addspace}}%
  61   \newunit{\addsemicolon\space}%
  62   \printfield{volume}%
  63   \setunit*{\addspace}%
  64   \newunit
  65 }
  66 \renewbibmacro*{title}{%
  67   \newunit
  68   \ifboolexpr{
  69     test {\iffieldundef{title}}
  70     and
  71     test {\iffieldundef{subtitle}}
  72   }
  73     {}
  74     {\printtext[title]{%
  75        \printfield[titlecase]{title}%
  76        \setunit{\subtitlepunct}%
  77        \printfield[titlecase]{subtitle}}%
  78      \newunit}%
  79   \printfield{titleaddon}}
  80 \renewbibmacro*{publisher+location+date}{%
  81   \setunit*{\addspace}%
  82   \printtext[parens]{\printlist{location}%
  83   \iflistundef{publisher}
  84     {\setunit*{\addcomma\space}}
  85     {\setunit*{\addcolon\space}}%
  86   \printlist{publisher}%
  87   }%
  88   \newunit}
  89 """]]
  90
  91 [[!tag latex tech biblatex]]