Beamer: Change bibliography style with biber removing some fields, and getting rid of warnings

Question

It is the first time I am trying to include the bibliography with biber in a Beamer presentation, and I am clueless on how to change the style and get rid of some fields. I tried with a custom .bst file I obtained with makebst but biber does not seem to understand it...

So here is my MWE:

\documentclass{beamer}
\setbeameroption{hide notes}

\usepackage{lmodern}

\usepackage[backend=biber, style=authoryear]{biblatex}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{Forrest2014,
    author = {Forrest, Alistair R. R. and Kawaji, Hideya and Rehli, Michael and {Kenneth Baillie}, J. and de Hoon, Michiel J. L. and Haberle, Vanja and Lassmann, Timo},
    doi = {10.1038/nature13182},
    issn = {0028-0836},
    journal = {Nature},
    pages = {462--470},
    pmid = {24670764},
    title = {{A promoter-level mammalian expression atlas}},
    url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature13182{\%}5Cnhttp://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/nature13182},
    volume = {507},
    year = {2014}
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\setbeamertemplate{bibliography item}{}

\mode<presentation> {
    \usetheme{Singapore}
}
\begin{document}


\section{Frame 1}
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Frame 1}
    Here I want a citation:

    \cite{Forrest2014}
\end{frame}


\begin{frame}[allowframebreaks]
\frametitle{References}
    \printbibliography
\end{frame}


\end{document}

Which produces the following:

What I would like to accomplish is the following:

• First of all, get rid of the following warnings:

Patching footnotes failed.

and

Font shape OT1/lmss/m/sc' in size <10.95> not available(Font) Font shapeOT1/lmr/m/sc' tried instead

I also encounter the following one in my full presentation:

Font shape EU2/lmss/m/sc' in size <10.95> not available(Font) Font shapeEU2/lmr/m/sc' tried instead

Then I want to customize the citations in this way:

• "et al" in italics, in both places

• Only initial for first names

• Year at the end

• No "In: "

• No DOI, ISSN, URL or anything like that

The result should be as close as possible to:

Forrest et al. 2014

and

Forrest ARR et al. “A promoter-level mammalian expression atlas”. Nature 507:462–470 (2014).

What do the warnings mean and how to get rid of them? I already used \lmodern...

How can I customize bibliography with biber, when it does not accept .bst files from makebst?

Many thanks!

Answer 1

Summing up the duplicates:

• First of all, get rid of the warnings

The footnote warning is normal as beamer has its own way to deal with footnotes, see Beamer patching footnotes warning: "Patching footnotes failed. Footnote detection will not work."

• "et al" in italics, in both places

https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/40999/36296

• Only initial for first names

https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/128823/36296

• Year at the end

changing the order of the fields can be found at Biblatex: changing the order of entries and Biblatex: changing the order of entries and Changing order of fields and suppressing extra arXiv identifiers and Biblatex: Change order of fields (note+pages) for inproceedings/incollection

• No "In: "

Suppress "In:" biblatex

• No DOI, ISSN, URL or anything like that

Biblatex: Get rid of ISSN, URLs and DOIs in references

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\documentclass{beamer}
\setbeameroption{hide notes}

\usepackage{lmodern}

\usepackage[backend=biber, style=authoryear, doi=false,isbn=false,url=false, giveninits=true]{biblatex}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{Forrest2014,
    author = {Forrest, Alistair R. R. and Kawaji, Hideya and Rehli, Michael and {Kenneth Baillie}, J. and de Hoon, Michiel J. L. and Haberle, Vanja and Lassmann, Timo},
    doi = {10.1038/nature13182},
    issn = {0028-0836},
    journal = {Nature},
    pages = {462--470},
    pmid = {24670764},
    title = {{A promoter-level mammalian expression atlas}},
    url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature13182{\%}5Cnhttp://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/nature13182},
    volume = {507},
    year = {2014}
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\setbeamertemplate{bibliography item}{}

\usepackage{xpatch}

\xpatchbibmacro{name:andothers}{%
  \bibstring{andothers}%
}{%
  \bibstring[\emph]{andothers}%
}{}{}

\renewbibmacro{in:}{}

\mode<presentation> {
    \usetheme{Singapore}
}
\begin{document}


\section{Frame 1}
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Frame 1}
    Here I want a citation:

    \cite{Forrest2014}
\end{frame}


\begin{frame}[allowframebreaks]
\frametitle{References}
    \printbibliography
\end{frame}


\end{document}