How do you hide an article title in BibLaTeX?

Question

I can use

\usepackage[bibstyle=numeric,url=false,doi=false]{biblatex}

to hide urls and dois from my bibliography, but

\usepackage[bibstyle=numeric,url=false,doi=false,title=false]{biblatex}

will not compile, throwing instead a keyval error.

How can I hide the titles of articles from my bibliography?

Is \AtEveryBibitem{\clearfield{title}} what you are after? Or alternatively, \DeclareFieldFormat[article]{title}{}. — Corentin, Nov 08 '13 at 05:04
@Corentin, Would I put this somewhere in the header of the LaTeX document source? — Richard, Nov 08 '13 at 05:16
Yes, \AtEveryBibitem{\clearfield{title}} is working when placed in the header. — Richard, Nov 08 '13 at 05:17

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 08 '13 at 13:01

7

You can use \DeclareSourceMap:

\DeclareSourcemap{
  \maps[datatype=bibtex]{
    \map{
      \pertype{article}
       \step[fieldset=title, null]
    }
 }
}

You can change the field format of title:
```
\DeclareFieldFormat[article]{title}{}
```

Both solutions can be done at the preamble.

answered Nov 08 '13 at 13:01

Marco Daniel

1

Please note that \DeclareFieldFormat[article]{title}{} can have adverse effects in that it makes biblatex think it printed the title when it didn't, potentially messing up the punctuation. The preferred variant is probably \AtEveryBibitem{\clearfield{title}}/\AtEveryCitekey{\clearfield{title}}. – moewe Mar 17 '15 at 11:54

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