Citing (author, journalabbr., year) needed

Question

I am looking for a certain kind of citing in my thesis. Unfortunality there is no option in biblatex for my needs. Is the best thing to declare an new "short journal"-field in the bib file or does LaTex recognice the initials of the Journal?

I added a full minimal example to show what i am actually working wiht:

 \begin{filecontents}{min.bib}
    @article{boisson2003unexpected,
  title={Unexpected protein families including cell defense components feature in the N-myristoylome of a higher eukaryote},
  author={Boisson, B. and Giglione, Carmela and Meinnel, Thierry},
  journal={Journal of Biological Chemistry},
  year={2003},
  publisher={ASBMB}
}
\end{filecontents}
\documentclass[fontsize=11pt, paper=a4, ngerman, DIV=calc]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[scaled]{helvet}
\renewcommand*\familydefault{\sfdefault}
\usepackage{fixltx2e}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[babel, german=quotes]{csquotes}
\usepackage[%style=authoryear-comp,sortcites=true,sorting=nyt,isbn=false,natbib=true, citestyle=authoryear,bibstyle=authoryear,backend=biber,maxnames=1,maxcitenames=1]
{biblatex}
\addbibresource{min.bib}
\DefineBibliographyStrings{ngerman}{
   andothers = {{et\,al\adddot}}            }
\begin{document}
\citep{boisson2003unexpected}
\[1em]
How it should look like:
\[1em]
(Boisson et al., JBC, 2003)
\printbibliography 
\end{document}<code>

There have been some discussions about abbreviated journal names before. How to abbreviate journal name in citation (the biber solution there is quite old, maybe use the one from the next link), Show journal abbreviation in reference list with biblatex/biber, Is there a transparent way to automatically abbreviate journal names?. — moewe, Jul 25 '14 at 04:45
Of course LaTeX does not read through the journal field and magically replaces the journal name with the correct abbreviation. There are three ways I see here: (1) use the .bib string method, this will require you to rework your database extensively though. (2) Let biblatex/biber re-map journal names, you'll have feed biblatex the long and short versions, it will do the rest. (3) Create a new entry field and add the names yourself (or let biblatex map them). — moewe, Jul 25 '14 at 04:49
You can find some questions on new data fields here, here, or here. — moewe, Jul 25 '14 at 04:52
unfortunatly this is not what i need. i'm fine with my bibliography. i want to add a third field to the output of the citing command. like (Author, journal initials, year). and i have no idea how to declare it. — Christian, Jul 25 '14 at 05:08

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 25 '14 at 14:15

First thing to do is to add a field for the journal abbreviation to the article entrytype, journalabbr in the MWE. Therefore you need to declare a datamodel (an extra file; in the MWE I've used filecontents to simulate that) and you have to tell biblatex/biber to use it in the package options.

Then you have to modify the cite command, so it fits your needs. \citep from the authoryear-style (your citestyle) uses the \cite command. There you just have to add a switch, which checks if the field journalabbr is empty or not, and prints it out or not.

Last but not least you have to add the abbreviation fields to the entries.

MWE:

\begin{filecontents}{min.bib}
@article{boisson2003unexpected,
  title={Unexpected protein families including cell defense components feature in the N-myristoylome of a higher eukaryote},
  author={Boisson, B. and Giglione, Carmela and Meinnel, Thierry},
  journal={Journal of Biological Chemistry},
  journalabbr={JBC},
  year={2003},
  publisher={ASBMB}
}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{authorjabbryear.dbx}
\ProvidesFile{authorjabbryear.dbx}
\DeclareDatamodelFields[type=field,datatype=literal]{journalabbr}
\DeclareDatamodelEntryfields[article]{journalabbr}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass[fontsize=11pt, paper=a4, ngerman, DIV=calc]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[scaled]{helvet}
\renewcommand*\familydefault{\sfdefault}
\usepackage{fixltx2e}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[german=quotes]{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=authoryear-comp,sortcites=true,sorting=nyt,isbn=false,natbib=true, citestyle=authoryear,bibstyle=authoryear,backend=biber,maxnames=1,maxcitenames=1,
,datamodel=authorjabbryear%added!
] {biblatex}

\DefineBibliographyStrings{ngerman}{ andothers = {{et\,al\adddot}} }

\renewbibmacro*{cite}{%from authoryear.cbx
  \iffieldundef{shorthand}
    {\ifthenelse{\ifnameundef{labelname}\OR\iffieldundef{labelyear}}
       {\usebibmacro{cite:label}%
        \setunit{\addspace}}
       {\printnames{labelname}%
        \setunit{\nameyeardelim}}%
     \iffieldundef{journalabbr}{}{%
        \printfield{journalabbr}%
        \setunit{\nameyeardelim}%
        }%
     \usebibmacro{cite:labelyear+extrayear}}
    {\usebibmacro{cite:shorthand}}}

\addbibresource{min.bib}

\begin{document}

\citep{boisson2003unexpected} 

How it should look like: 

(Boisson et al., JBC, 2003)

\printbibliography

\end{document}

Why don't you use the shortjournal field for the abbreviation? Then you wouldn't have to extend the datamodel. — Ulrike Fischer, Jul 31 '14 at 07:34

Citing (author, journalabbr., year) needed

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