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I have one entry in my bibfile which I made of type CUSTOMA (it could be any of customa to customf). I did this so that it does not show in the reference list created with \printbibliography[nottype=customa].

The whole bibliography is generated from:

\RequirePackage[
  backend=biber,
  style=apa,
]{biblatex}
\DeclareLanguageMapping{american}{american-apa}

Later, I want to display this only entry with

printbibliography[type=customa]

It is always to be formatted as an article. Hence, my question: is it possible to define the style of CUSTOMA to be identical to the style of ARTICLE in a reference list?

I thought that

\DeclareBibliographyAlias{customA}{article}

would do the trick but the journal's name, the pages and volume do not show up...

Denis Cousineau
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    Please give us a complete, compilable and short code including three entries of your bibfile showing one usual entry and two custom? entrys. – Mensch Mar 08 '16 at 23:13
  • I strongly suspect this is an instance of the XY problem. If an entry should look like an @article, it probably is and @article. You can filter certain works using other methods than type filtering: keywords, categories etc. So you might want to rethink your approach here. – moewe Mar 09 '16 at 06:26
  • @moewe I could bet all customa entries are own publications which are printed in a sepatate list. – Johannes_B Mar 09 '16 at 07:26

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You are almost there, but because how \DeclareBibliographyAlias is implemented internally (you can read more about that in What exactly is the relationship Biblatex refers to as an alias of an entry type? And how should the formatting of aliased entry types be configured?), you must give all entry types in lower case.

So the correct line is

\DeclareBibliographyAlias{customa}{article}

To make sure everything is as with @article you also need

\DeclareFieldFormat[customa]{title}{\mkbibquote{#1\isdot}}
\DeclareFieldFormat[customa]{volume}{#1}% volume of a journal

for the standard styles and

\DeclareFieldFormat[customa]{title}{#1\isdot}
\DeclareFieldFormat[customa]{origtitle}{\MakeSentenceCase*{#1}\isdot}
\DeclareFieldFormat[customa]{pages}{#1}
\DeclareFieldFormat[customa]{volume}{\mkbibemph{\apanum{#1}}}
\DeclareFieldFormat[customa]{number}{\mkbibparens{\apanum{#1}}}

with biblatex-apa. The reasons for this are explained in the link above.

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