Change the order of the address and publisher in Biblatex

Question

I need to change the order of the fields in my bibliography. Currently, any entry for a book I have is displayed as:

City: Publisher.

I want to change it to

Publisher: City.

Given a tex file as follows:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=numeric, firstinits=true, maxbibnames=99, minbibnames=1, backend=bibtex8]{biblatex}

\bibliography{mybib}

\begin{document}

hello world \cite{Ab_Steg}

\printbibliography

\end{document}

And the .bib file as follows:

@BOOK{Ab_Steg,
 author = "M. Abramowitz and I. A. Stegun",
 title = {Handbook of mathematical functions},
 publisher = "Dover publications",
 year = "1965",
 language="English",
 address="New York"
 }

The result is:

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I want the position of "Dover publications" and "New York" to switch.

A self-contained minimal working example (MWE) would be really helpful here. And welcome to TeX.SX! — Adam Liter, Mar 27 '14 at 18:16
I'm a bit curious. Is there a background behind this request? Are there any circumstances when this "backwards style" is correct? — pst, Mar 27 '14 at 21:58
My supervisor requested this formatting for books in my bibliography. I'm not entirely sure why, though. I think it is confusing since conferences are tied to a location, but for books, the publisher is more important than the location. — pypmannetjies, Mar 27 '14 at 22:05

pst · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-27T22:21:23.967

16

Insert this after loading biblatex:

% let "publisher" and "location" change place
\renewbibmacro*{publisher+location+date}{%
  \printlist{publisher}%
  \iflistundef{location}
    {\setunit*{\addcomma\space}}
    {\setunit*{\addcolon\space}}%
  \printlist{location}%
  \setunit*{\addcomma\space}%
  \usebibmacro{date}%
  \newunit}

This is from standard.bbx in Biblatex, with only those two interchanged.

If only books should be affected, a straightforward method is to not change the macro as above, but instead define a new one, \newbibmacro{location+publisher+date} with the definition as above. And then you copy the whole \DeclareBibliographyDriver{book} part from standard.bbx into your file, but exchange the \usebibmacro call to use the alternative macro instead.

edited Mar 27 '14 at 22:21

answered Mar 27 '14 at 21:23

pst

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Do you mean after the \usepackage{biblatex} command? Thanks, this works perfectly! Next time I will have a look at standard.bbx. – pypmannetjies Mar 27 '14 at 21:34
Is there a way to restrict this change to only references that are books, not conferences as well? – pypmannetjies Mar 27 '14 at 21:39
1

I don't know how to best do that, but I've added a rather dumb but straightforward way. – pst Mar 27 '14 at 22:22

moewe · Answer 2 · 2014-04-03T07:55:38.567

We can use \ifentrytype{book} to change the macro only for @books.

\renewbibmacro*{publisher+location+date}{%
  \ifentrytype{book}
    {\printlist{publisher}%
     \iflistundef{location}
       {\setunit*{\addcomma\space}}
       {\setunit*{\addcolon\space}}%
     \printlist{location}}
    {\printlist{location}%
     \iflistundef{publisher}
      {\setunit*{\addcomma\space}}
      {\setunit*{\addcolon\space}}%
     \printlist{publisher}}
  \setunit*{\addcomma\space}%
  \usebibmacro{date}%
  \newunit}

MWE

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=numeric, firstinits=true, maxbibnames=99, minbibnames=1, backend=biber]{biblatex}

\renewbibmacro*{publisher+location+date}{%
  \ifentrytype{book}
    {\printlist{publisher}%
     \iflistundef{location}
       {\setunit*{\addcomma\space}}
       {\setunit*{\addcolon\space}}%
     \printlist{location}}
    {\printlist{location}%
     \iflistundef{publisher}
      {\setunit*{\addcomma\space}}
      {\setunit*{\addcolon\space}}%
     \printlist{publisher}}
  \setunit*{\addcomma\space}%
  \usebibmacro{date}%
  \newunit}

\bibliography{biblatex-examples.bib}

\begin{document}
  \cite{cicero,wilde}

  \printbibliography
\end{document}

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Change the order of the address and publisher in Biblatex

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