Looking for a suitable bibstyle

Question

I am very new in BibLaTex. I need such a way to cite:

Tropical cyclones (TCs), referring to hurricanes, typhoons, tropical storms, and weaker tropical depressions (Vitart et. al, 1997).

Reference

[1] Vitart, F., J. L. Anderson, and W. F. Stern, 1997: Simulation of inter-annual variability of tropical storm frequency in an ensemble of GCM integrations. J. Climate, 10, 745–760.

What kind of bibstyle should I use? I didn't find anything that meets my requirement.

Thanks a lot!

P.S. In summary, the style that I want to cite should be

Text (author, 2015)

Reference

[#] Author, 2015. Article name. Journal name....

This may be most likely to authoryear in BibLaTex. But I still don't know how to use it. Here is my code.

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[bibstyle=authoryear,citestyle=authoryearbrak]{biblatex}
\begin{document}
   Tropical cyclones (TCs), referring to hurricanes, typhoons, tropical storms, and weaker tropical depressions \parencite{Bengtsson-L.:1982aa}.
\addbibresource{2016MOST_Paper_JRA25TC_20160201.bib} 
\printbibliography
\end{document}

But it's not work. I use BibDesk with my work.

Hi. If you are new to LaTeX and bibtex take a look at the package "BibLaTeX", especially at the different styles that come with it. edit:// The manual of biblatex with the basic styles on page 63pp.: ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/tex/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex/doc/biblatex.pdf
If you can't find a suitable style, this package allows imho the easiest creation of own styles. — HATEthePLOT, Feb 01 '16 at 15:17
In the text: (author, 2015);
Reference: [#] Author, 2015: Article_name. Publisher....... — Wayne Tsai, Feb 01 '16 at 15:31
I google it and find out the possible BibLatex style that I may use: authoryear. But I still have no idea how to use it. — Wayne Tsai, Feb 01 '16 at 15:34
For a general introduction read biblatex in a nutshell (for beginners) as well as the questions linked to there if you are coming from BibTeX read What to do to switch to biblatex? or if not How to learn biblatex without knowing BibTeX. — moewe, Feb 01 '16 at 16:34
The general idea of the style you ask for confuses me a bit (why would you want author-year and numbers?), but there are amongst others Biblatex enumerating sorted bibliography (using authoryear-ibid style), biblatex-biber: How to customize the order in the bibliography?, Adding numbers to references with authoryear citation style, Adding numbers to Author Year citations in list of references — moewe, Feb 01 '16 at 16:36
I mainly need authoryear style. Number is not necessary. I will try to read the reference you provided to find out the answer. Thank you! — Wayne Tsai, Feb 01 '16 at 16:48
Any news here? Can we mark this as solved? Did the linked questions help you? If not, why? — moewe, Apr 12 '17 at 07:54

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 01 '16 at 17:43

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Your MWE is of no use since we do not have the contents of your *.bib file. My guess would be that you need to switch your bibliography parser to 'biber'. Does your MWE work with the following adjustments?

\usepackage[bibstyle=authoryear,citestyle=authoryearbrak,backend=bibtex]{biblatex}

If yes, you should change the bibliography tool of your editor to biber and change the

backend=bibtex

to

backend=biber

answered Feb 01 '16 at 17:43

HATEthePLOT

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Admitted the example by the O.P. is not really useful, but does this really answer the question? – Feb 01 '16 at 18:23
You are right. It was an uneducated guess from my own experience. – HATEthePLOT Feb 01 '16 at 18:48
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Please note that the (cite)style authoryearbrak (i.e. authoryearbrak.cbx) does not exist on CTAN, the only reference to such a file I could find on github: https://github.com/tehingo/literature-study, but these files haven't been touched in the last two years. – moewe Feb 02 '16 at 17:12

Looking for a suitable bibstyle

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