Tabular Bibliography

Question

1st question for me so if there is sth wrong just say it. Using the code provided here --> Tabular Bibliogrpahy

How can I add the year on the left side of the tabular and cancel the URL and ISBN entrees for books on the right side without changing the .bib-data?

Answer 1

This is a very under-explained question. I'm simply going to assume that you are doing something like preparing a list for a CV, because I cannot imagine any rational way of referring in citations to a bibliography organised in that weird way (an author/year scheme needs the author to be easily found, not the year!).

So let's assume you will use a simple "verbose" style to produce a list of works ordered by year, and we can modify from that.

Because your label is just a year, you really don't need the complex tabular environment, the technique of redefining labels in an ordinary list environment will work just fine. So, from the answer you cite we can just use the simple definition of a new enumeration. We can adapt the answer there, because we are only using years, so we can have quite narrow labels.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=verbose,date=year]{biblatex}

\defbibenvironment{bibliography}
  {\list
     {\usebibmacro{date}}
     {\setlength{\labelwidth}{0.1\textwidth}%
      \setlength{\leftmargin}{\labelwidth}%
      \setlength{\labelsep}{\biblabelsep}%
      \addtolength{\leftmargin}{\labelsep}%
      \setlength{\itemsep}{\bibitemsep}%
      \setlength{\parsep}{\bibparsep}}%
     \renewcommand*{\makelabel}[1]{%
       \nobreak\strut\smash{\parbox[t]\labelwidth{\raggedright##1}}}}
  {\endlist}
  {\item}

\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\begin{document}

\nocite{*}

\newrefcontext[sorting=ynt]

\printbibliography

\end{document}

The main imperfection of this is that it leaves the date printed twice: once as the label, and once in the citation. It's possible to define a bibmacro to try to clear the excess dates but it doesn't work satisfactorily, in particular with entry sets, but also with some journals which use the date as part of the issue. I give it here for completeness:

\newbibmacro{omitdate}{%
    \clearfield{date}
    \clearfield{year}
    \clearfield{month}
    \clearfield{labelyear}}

This then gets used immediately after \item in the last argument to \defbibenvirobnment. To do this properly would require considerably more work.

For your other question, \AtEveryBibitem{\clearfield{isbn}\clearfield{url}} should do the trick.

Answer 2

See Custom BibLaTeX bib with two blocks and authors below each other? for a solution to tabular bibliographies with fewer quirks.

This is a slightly updated version of Audrey's tabular bibliography code over at tabular bibliography with biblatex. It is adapted to produce 'author-year' like labels in the left column and the rest of the item on the right.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage[bibstyle=authortitle, citestyle=authoryear, sorting=nyt, labeldateparts]{biblatex}

\makeatletter
% user-level command for printing tabular bibliography
\let\printbibtabular\printbibliography
\patchcmd{\printbibtabular}{\blx@printbibliography}{\bbx@printbibtabular}{}{}
\patchcmd{\printbibtabular}{\blx@printbibliography}{\bbx@printbibtabular}{}{}
\let\bbx@printbibtabular\blx@printbibliography
\patchcmd{\bbx@printbibtabular}{\blx@bibliography}{\bbx@bibtabular}{}{}
\patchcmd{\bbx@printbibtabular}
  {\def\blx@theenv{bibliography}}{\def\blx@theenv{bibtabular}}{}{}

% underlying macros
\def\bbx@bibtabular#1{%
  \blx@langstrings
  \blx@bibheading\blx@theheading\blx@thetitle
  \blx@bibnote\blx@theprenote
  \begingroup
  \blx@bibinit
  \let\@noitemerr\@empty
  \let\blx@noitem\blx@warn@bibempty
  \ifnum\bibinitsep=\z@
    \let\blx@initsep\relax
  \fi
  \ifnum\bibnamesep=\z@
    \let\blx@namesep\relax
  \fi
  \csuse{blx@hook@bibinit}%
  \csuse{blx@hook@bibinit@next}%
  % copy filtered list of entries to internal list macro
  \def\blx@do##1{%
    \blx@ifdata{##1}{%
      \begingroup
      \blx@getdata{##1}
      \blx@bibcheck
      \iftoggle{blx@skipentry}{}{%
        \global\let\blx@noitem\@empty
        \listadd\blx@tempa{##1}}%
      \endgroup}{}}
  \let\blx@done\relax
  \blx@listloop{#1}
  % tabular output for each item in list macro
  \def\do##1{\bbx@tab@label{##1} & \bbx@tab@item{##1} \\[\bibitemsep]}
  \csuse{blx@env@\blx@theenv}%
  \dolistloop{\blx@tempa}
  \csuse{blx@endenv@\blx@theenv}%
  \blx@bibnote\blx@thepostnote
  \endgroup}


\def\bbx@tab@label#1{%
  \blx@ifdata{#1}
    {\begingroup
     \blx@getdata{#1}%
     \blx@bibcheck
     \iftoggle{blx@skipentry}{}{%
       \blx@setdefaultrefcontext{#1}%
       \global\let\blx@noitem\@empty
       \blx@setoptions@type\abx@field@entrytype
       \blx@setoptions@entry
       \blx@thelabelnumber
       \addtocounter{instcount}\@ne
       \csuse{bbx@tabenv@\blx@theenv}\relax}
     \endgroup}
    {}}

\def\bbx@tab@item#1{%
  \blx@ifdata{#1}
    {\begingroup
     \blx@getdata{#1}%
     \blx@bibcheck
     \iftoggle{blx@skipentry}{}{%
       \blx@setdefaultrefcontext{#1}%
       \global\let\blx@noitem\@empty
       \blx@setoptions@type\abx@field@entrytype
       \blx@setoptions@entry
       \csuse{blx@item@\blx@theenv}\relax
       \blx@initsep
       \blx@namesep
       \csuse{blx@hook@bibitem}%
       \blx@execute
       \blx@initunit
       \blx@anchor
       \blx@beglangbib
       \bibsentence
       \blx@pagetracker
       \blx@driver\abx@field@entrytype
       \blx@postpunct
       \blx@endlangbib}%
     \endgroup}
    {}}

% user-level command for defining tabular bibliography format
\newrobustcmd*{\defbibtabular}[5]{%
  \long\csdef{blx@env@#1}{#2}%
  \long\csdef{blx@endenv@#1}{#3}%
  \long\csdef{bbx@tabenv@#1}{#4}%
  \long\csdef{blx@item@#1}{#5}}
\makeatother

\newbibmacro*{date+extrayear}{%
  \iffieldundef{labelyear}
    {}
    {\printtext[parens]{%
       \printfield{issue}%
       \setunit*{\addspace}%
       \iffieldsequal{year}{labelyear}
         {\printlabeldateextra}%
         {\printfield{labelyear}%
          \printfield{extrayear}}}}}%
\renewbibmacro*{date}{}%
\renewbibmacro*{issue+date}{}

\makeatletter
\newbibmacro{biblabel}{%
  \begingroup
  \DeclareFieldFormat{bibhyperref}{##1}%
  \csuse{blx@hook@cite}%
  \csuse{blx@hook@citekey}%
  \citetrackerfalse\pagetrackerfalse\backtrackerfalse
  \defcounter{maxnames}{\blx@maxcitenames}%
  \usebibmacro{cite}%
  \endgroup
}
\makeatother

%bibitem hook to suppress redundant sortname list
\newbibmacro*{omitlabelname}{%
  \iffieldundef{labelnamesource}
    {}
    {\clearname{\thefield{labelnamesource}}}}

% demo new tabular bibliography format
\defbibtabular{bibtabular}
  {\tabular{p{0.3\textwidth}p{0.7\textwidth}}}
  {\endtabular}
  {\usebibmacro{biblabel}}
  {\usebibmacro{omitlabelname}}

% add multiline labels in default bibliography format
\defbibenvironment{bibliography}
  {\list
     {\usebibmacro{biblabel}}
     {\setlength{\labelwidth}{0.3\textwidth}%
      \setlength{\leftmargin}{\labelwidth}%
      \setlength{\labelsep}{\biblabelsep}%
      \addtolength{\leftmargin}{\labelsep}%
      \setlength{\itemsep}{\bibitemsep}%
      \setlength{\parsep}{\bibparsep}}%
     \renewcommand*{\makelabel}[1]{%
       \nobreak\strut\smash{\parbox[t]\labelwidth{\raggedright##1}}}}
  {\endlist}
  {\item\usebibmacro{omitlabelname}}

\setlength{\bibitemsep}{\itemsep}

\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\newcommand{\cmd}[1]{\texttt{\textbackslash #1}}
\begin{document}
\cite{vangennep:trans,companion,bertram,worman,sigfridsson,geer,knuth:ct:a,knuth:ct:b,knuth:ct:c}
\printbibliography[title={\cmd{printbibliography} with multiline labels}]
\printbibtabular[title={New \cmd{printbibtabular} command}]
\end{document}