Yet another bibliography style question

Question

(I hope my question is not duplicated)

I have this sample file:

\documentclass[a4paper]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}


\usepackage{polyglossia}

\setdefaultlanguage{italian}
\usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex}

\addbibresource{bibliografia.bib}
\begin{document}
\section{Sezione}
Questo è un test.\nocite{Zarlino1558}   

\printbibliography

\end{document}

My bibliografia.bib contains:

@Book{Zarlino1558,
  Title                    = {L'istitutioni harmoniche},
  Author                   = {Zarlino, Gioseffo},
  Publisher                = {Francesco de' Franceschi},
  Year                     = {1558},
  Address                  = {Venezia},
}

I get this:

[1] Gioseffo Zarlino. L’istitutioni harmoniche. Venezia: Francesco de’ Franceschi, 1558.

I need this:

\textsc{Gioseffo Zarlino}, \textit{L’istitutioni harmoniche}, Venezia, Francesco de’ Franceschi, 1558.

What should I write in my preamble?

Thank you so much for your help.

I'm confused. You have polyglossia in your preamble, which is incompatible with pdflatex but fontenc and inputenc which should not be used with xelatex or lualatex. Which tex-engine are you using? — MaxNoe, Oct 05 '15 at 18:46

MaxNoe · Answer 1 · 2015-10-05T19:23:44.737

You need to set \DeclareFieldFormat*{title}{\textit{#1}} to make the title italic.

If you just want to change the appearance of a book, you can use \DeclareFieldFormat[book]{title}{\textit{#1}}.

For commas between the keys you need to add \renewcommand*{\newunitpunct}{\addcomma\space}.
For authors in small caps, renew the bibcommands mkbibnamelast and mkbibnamefirst \renewcommand*{\mkbibnamelast}[1]{\textsc{#1}} \renewcommand*{\mkbibnamefirst}[1]{\textsc{#1}}

Complete Code:

\documentclass[a4paper]{scrartcl}


\begin{filecontents*}{bibliografia.bib}
@Book{Zarlino1558,
  Title                    = {L'istitutioni harmoniche},
  Author                   = {Zarlino, Gioseffo},
  Publisher                = {Francesco de' Franceschi},
  Year                     = {1558},
  Address                  = {Venezia},
}
\end{filecontents*}

\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{italian}

\usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex}
\DeclareFieldFormat*{title}{\textit{#1}}
\renewcommand*{\newunitpunct}{\addcomma\space}

\renewcommand*{\mkbibnamelast}[1]{\textsc{#1}}
\renewcommand*{\mkbibnamefirst}[1]{\textsc{#1}}

\addbibresource{bibliografia.bib}
\begin{document}
\section{Sezione}
Questo è un test.\nocite{Zarlino1558}   

\printbibliography

\end{document}

This is good, except that I need commas between Author and Title, Title and Address, Address and Publisher, Publisher and year. I also need to cancel the field [1]. — user56153, Oct 05 '15 at 18:51
I still get a colon between address and publisher. Is there soemthing similar to \renewcommand*{\newunitpunct}{\addcomma\space} for changing colon to comma? — user56153, Oct 05 '15 at 19:26

Bernard · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-05T22:59:56.583

1

Here is a simple solution, with the xpatch package:

\documentclass[a4paper]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{ebgaramond}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{bibliografia.bib}
@Book{Zarlino1558,
Title = {L'istitutioni harmoniche},
Author = {Zarlino, Gioseffo},
Publisher = {Francesco de' Franceschi},
Year = {1558},
Address = {Venezia},
}
\end{filecontents}


\usepackage{polyglossia}

\setdefaultlanguage{italian}
\usepackage[backend=biber, style=authortitle, sorting=nyt]{biblatex}
\usepackage{xpatch}
\let\mkbibnamelast\textsc%
\let\mkbibnamefirst\textsc%
\let\mkbibnameprefix\textsc%
\let\mkbibnameaffix\textsc
\renewcommand*{\newunitpunct}{\addcomma\space}
\xpatchbibmacro{publisher+location+date}{\setunit*{\addcolon\space}}%
{\setunit*{\addcomma\space}}{}{}
\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{first-last}

\addbibresource{bibliografia.bib}

\begin{document}
\section{Sezione}
Questo è un test.\nocite{Zarlino1558}

\printbibliography

\end{document}

edited Oct 05 '15 at 22:59

answered Oct 05 '15 at 20:37

Bernard

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Very nice. How do you get rid of [1] at the beginning of the line? – user56153 Oct 05 '15 at 21:45
1

Oh! I didnt notice you want no number at the beginning of the line. Just use the authortitle style. Please see my updated answer. – Bernard Oct 05 '15 at 22:04
Now I just need to order my bibliography first by Author name, then by year. – user56153 Oct 05 '15 at 22:51
That is set by the sorting=nyt key (name-year-title). I've updated the code. – Bernard Oct 05 '15 at 23:01
You're welcome. Always glad to help! – Bernard Oct 05 '15 at 23:29

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