Bibliography: Citations with [] but bibliography without []

Question

I need to create a document following these instructions for the bibliography:

But I haven't been able to find a way to use brackets in the citations but no brackets in the bibliography. Can some point me to a way of doing this with bibtex or biblatex?

Has a particular bibliography style been suggested to you? – Mico Apr 25 '17 at 06:32 — Mico, Apr 25 '17 at 06:32
@Mico That was all the bibliography info given to me. – juanerasmoe Apr 25 '17 at 11:54 — juanerasmoe, Apr 25 '17 at 11:54

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 25 '17 at 06:26

In biblatex that is as easy as using a numeric-like style and issuing

\DeclareFieldFormat{labelnumberwidth}{#1\adddot}

Then

\documentclass[british]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=numeric, backend=biber]{biblatex}

\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\DeclareFieldFormat{labelnumberwidth}{#1\adddot}

\begin{document}
\cite{sigfridsson} then \cite{worman,geer}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

gives

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 25 '17 at 06:16

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Inspired by the end of this answer, you could put the following directly before your \printbibliography (not in the document header):

\makeatletter
\renewcommand*{\bibleftbracket}{\blx@postpunct}
\renewcommand*{\bibrightbracket}{\blx@postpunct.\midsentence}
\makeatother

It works at least in my document with LuaLaTeX and biber, but should also work with biblatex.

answered Apr 25 '17 at 06:16

luckyrumo

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I cannot recommend that approach. Even if you put this just before the \printbibliography you will still mess up all square brackets set by biblatex. (Also note that this solution works for the package biblatex regardless of the TeX (Lua/Xe/LaTeX) engine and the backend used (BibTeX/Biber)) – moewe Apr 25 '17 at 06:28

Bibliography: Citations with [] but bibliography without []

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