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For assignment I am writing I need to write a brief review of each reference and have it in the references section (indented by one tab on left hand side and blank line to next reference} after the reference itself. It is for me to justify why included this reference in the assignment.

With biblatex how can I a new field - ie 'Review' after each reference in the Bibliogrphy.

References CTAN 2006 .... Can this be added in Reference Section

...

Is there a field I can use to do this or is this best done some other way?

Here is the basic biblatex schema I use.

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{report}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{reference.bib}
@Online{ctan,
    Title                    = {CTAN},
    Url                      = {http://www.ctan.org},
    Year                     = {2006},
    Subtitle                 = {The {Comprehensive TeX Archive Network}},
    Urldate                  = {2006-10-01},
    Label                    = {CTAN},
    Review                   = {Can this be added in Reference Section}
}
\end{filecontents}

\usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib, backend=biber]{biblatex}
\DefineBibliographyStrings{english}{%
    urlseen = {accessed on},
}
\addbibresource{reference.bib}
\begin{document}
\citet{CTAN}
\printbibliography[title=References]

\end{document}
Stuie
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  • Sorry, I don't quite understand what exactly it is you want. Can you explain it in more detail and maybe add a mock-up of the output you expect to see? – moewe Oct 14 '15 at 10:36
  • You can use the abstract field and something like \renewbibmacro*{finentry}{\setunit{\par}\printfield{abstract}\finentry}. – moewe Oct 14 '15 at 10:39
  • @moewe - Yes \renewbibmacro*{finentry}{\setunit{\par}\printfield{abstract}\vspace{\parskip}\finentry} \setlength\bibitemsep{1.5\itemsep}. Does pretty much what I want. Is there a way to add vertical space before the abstract field is displayed?. I can use the \bibitemsep for space after but would like to seperate more at the top – Stuie Oct 14 '15 at 11:31

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There is no review field, but you can use the abstract field. By default it is not shown in the bibliography, but with

\renewbibmacro*{finentry}{\setunit{\smallskip\par}\printfield{abstract}\finentry}

it is.

You can use \medskip or \bigskip (or other skips) instead of \smallskip for larger space between the abstract and the rest of the entry.

moewe
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  • See also http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/238554/ . Alternatively, using plain Bibtex you can use the note field, which is likely to be displayed at the end of a reference. – Marijn Oct 14 '15 at 11:43
  • @Marijn Thanks for the link, I had forgotten that one. With biblatex, note is probably not that good an idea, there the note field comes even before the publisher, addendum might be a better idea here, but the back-references will be placed after the addendum. I just checked plain.bst though, there note comes at the end. – moewe Oct 14 '15 at 11:52