I need to change the "and" to "&" and remove the Oxford comma in my bibliography. I saw a solution here for removing the oxford comma that suggests changing the .bst file, but I'd prefer not to do that if possible. It also suggests using bibstyle=trad-unsrt option, but I am not using that bibstyle. I could not find any suggestions on how to change the "and" to "&," but it is difficult to search for because of the "&."
EDIT March 31st, 2014 9:02PM EST: I found out how to remove the penultimate comma in the author list when "et al" is not present (thanks @cfr). However, the issue remains when "et al" is present.
EDIT March 31st, 2014 10:21 EST: I found out how to change "and" to "&" and incorporated the code to my MWE.
Here is an image of my citations as is:
Image 1.
The comma before "et al" in the first citation is the one I'd like to remove.
Below is my MWE.
\documentclass [12pt]{article}
\usepackage[
backend=bibtex,
citestyle=numeric,
isbn=false,
bibstyle=authoryear,
maxnames=3, % Max number of names before "et al" starts
minnames=3, % Must show at least three names for citations and bibliography
firstinits=true, % Removes period after first name intial
terseinits=true, % Removes period after first name intial
sorting=none] % List citations in order they appear
{biblatex}
\DeclareFieldFormat[article]{volume}{\textbf{#1}\addcomma\space} % Bolds volume of citation and adds comma after volume
\DeclareFieldFormat{pages}{#1} % No prefix for the "pages" field in the bibliography
\renewcommand*{\revsdnamepunct}{} % Removing the comma after last name in bibliography
\renewcommand*{\revsdnamepunct}{} % Removing the periods after first name intial in bibliography
\renewcommand{\labelnamepunct}{\addspace} % Removes period after year in bibliography
\DeclareFieldFormat[article]{title}{#1} % Remove quotes from journal title in bibliography
\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{last-first} % Lists all authors with last name first in bibliography
\renewcommand*{\finalnamedelim}{\addspace\bibstring{and}\space} % Removes comma after penultimate name
\AtBeginBibliography{% Replaces "and" with "&" in bibliography
\renewcommand*{\finalnamedelim}{%
\ifnumgreater{\value{liststop}}{2}{}{}%
\addspace\&\space}%
}
\usepackage{xpatch}
\xpatchbibmacro{name:andothers}{ % Makes the "et al" italicized bibliography
\bibstring{andothers}%
}{%
\bibstring[\emph]{andothers}%
}{}{}
\renewbibmacro{in:}{% Removes "In" from bibliography entries
\ifentrytype{article}{}{%
\printtext{\bibstring{in}\intitlepunct}}}
\defbibenvironment{bibliography}
{\list
{\printfield[labelnumberwidth]{labelnumber}} % Adds numbers to references and wraps the text for each bibliography entry
{\setlength{\labelwidth}{\labelnumberwidth}%
\setlength{\leftmargin}{0pt}%
\setlength{\labelsep}{\biblabelsep}%
\setlength{\itemsep}{\bibitemsep}%
\setlength{\itemindent}{\labelwidth}%
\addtolength{\itemindent}{\labelsep}%
\setlength{\parsep}{\bibparsep}}%
\renewcommand*{\makelabel}[1]{\hss##1}}
{\endlist}
{\item}
\DeclareFieldFormat{labelnumberwidth}{#1.} % Adds a period after each reference number in bibliography
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{test.bib}
@article{author2014,
author = {Author, A. B. and Author, A. B. and Author, A. B.},
journal = {Journal of the happy but frustrated biblatex user},
pages = {1070--1074},
title = {{Biblatex hurts so good}},
volume = {10},
date = {2014}
}
@article{author2013,
author = {Author, A. D. and Author, A. B. and Author, A. B. and Author, A.B},
journal = {Journal of the happy but frustrated biblatex user},
pages = {1070--1074},
title = {{Biblatex hurts so good}},
volume = {10},
date = {2013}
}
\end{filecontents*}
\bibliography{test.bib}
\begin{document}
Be excellent, Dudes \supercite{author2013,author2014}
\printbibliography
\end{document}
