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I am using a bib file that looks something like this (saved as ref.bib):

@article{key1, 
    author = {Joe Smith},
    journal={A journal}, 
    title = {An article}, 
    year = {2017}}

@article{key2, 
    author = {Joe Smith}, 
    title = {A second article}, 
    journal = {},
    year = {2017}, 
    pubstate={Draft}}

With a latex file:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=authoryear]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{ref.bib}

\begin{document}
\section{ONE}
\begin{refsection}
  \nocite{key1}
  \printbibliography{}
\end{refsection}

\section{TWO}
\begin{refsection}
  \nocite{key2}
  \printbibliography{}
\end{refsection}
\end{document}

But I would like to omit the year from the second bibliography since it is an unpublished draft. How would I go about doing this?

Alex
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  • Use @unpublished, then year can be omitted. – TeXnician Aug 14 '17 at 16:57
  • key2 is definitely not an @article if it has no journal and has not yet been published. There is @unpublished, but also @online if you got the work from a pre-print server. – moewe Aug 14 '17 at 17:00
  • Is this for a CV/list of your publications? – moewe Aug 14 '17 at 17:00
  • Thanks for the quick responses. Using @unpublished and omitting the year still puts in (n.d.), which I don't want. @moewe - yes, it is for a CV – Alex Aug 14 '17 at 17:02

1 Answers1

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Use @unpublished and the pubstate field. With

\DeclareLabeldate{%
  \field{date}
  \field{year}
  \field{eventdate}
  \field{origdate}
  \field{urldate}
  \field{pubstate}
  \literal{nodate}
}

you get to see the pubstate in the brackets after the author name in the bibliography. To avoid printing the pubstate twice in that case we redefine addendum+pubstate.

This is similar to Andrew's answer in Biblatex: How to get “Author (forthcoming)” when pubstate=forthcoming is set, instead of “Author (n.d.)”?, but ultimately a bit simpler.

MWE

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=authoryear]{biblatex}

\DeclareLabeldate{%
  \field{date}
  \field{year}
  \field{eventdate}
  \field{origdate}
  \field{urldate}
  \field{pubstate}
  \literal{nodate}
}

\renewbibmacro*{addendum+pubstate}{%
  \printfield{addendum}%
  \newunit\newblock
  \iffieldequalstr{labeldatesource}{pubstate}
    {}
    {\printfield{pubstate}}}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{key1, 
  author  = {Joe Smith},
  journal = {A journal}, 
  title   = {An article}, 
  year    = {2017},
}

@unpublished{key2, 
  author   = {Joe Smith}, 
  title    = {A second article}, 
  pubstate = {draft},
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}
\cite{key1} and \cite{key2}.

\printbibliography
\end{document}

example

moewe
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