AAAI bibtex style with biblatex

Question

Conferences whose proceedings are published by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) usually demand authors to use the AAAI latex package. The package provides a bibtex .bst file, with no apparent support for biblatex.

Here is a minimal example showing the result obtained with the official bibtex style.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{aaai}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{filecontents}{biblio.bib}
  @article{Stark04,
    author    = {T. Stark},
    title     = {{M}aintaining {K}nowledge about {W}eaponry},
    journal   = {International Journal of Armored Weapons},
    volume    = {26},
    number    = {11},
    pages     = {832--843},
    year      = {2004}
  }

  @incollection{Riddle94,
    author      = {T. M. Riddle},
    title       = {{I}ntegrating {P}otions and {D}eath {E}aters},
    editor      = {Mary Zen and Mark S. Furling},
    booktitle   = {Intelligent Magic},
    publisher   = {Morgan Kaufmann},
    year        = 1994,
    pages       = {169--212},
    chapter     = 6
  }

  @inproceedings{LutorK17,
    author    = {L. Lutor and C. Kent},
    title     = {
      {On The Effects of Mineral Mining from Alien Planets}
    },
    booktitle = {
      {Proc. of the 31st {AAAI} Conference on Alien
      Intelligence}
    },
    pages     = {3547--3554},
    year      = {2017}
  }
\end{filecontents}

\title{How to be published on comics and fantasy books}
\author{Stan Lee}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\section{Introduction}

It is always good to cite \cite{Riddle94,Stark04} and acknowledge
\cite{LutorK17}.

\lipsum[1-5]

\bibliographystyle{aaai}
\bibliography{biblio.bib}


\end{document}

The citation style itself is like (Author Name et al. 1999), while the bibliography is rendered in the normal way, I suppose. The example shows a conference paper, a collection chapter and a journal article.

Is there some unofficial AAAI biblatex style out there to obtain the same results, or can you suggest me how to configure biblatex to obtain the same bibliography appearance (the citation style is quite standard)?

Answer 1

This is only a starting point, not a complete answer, it's also an occasion to explain how to ask a biblatex question.

Starting from the standard authoryear-icomp, I've added the code to:

• remove the : after In
• remove the parentheses from the year in the bibliography
• remove the quote marks from titles
• remove pp from pages in the bibliography
• put a comma before and in the author list
• invert last and first names of the second author
• avoid reference indentation
• put a bit of vertical space between the bibitems.

You can find most of that solutions in other posts here on TeX.SE, by the way.

A lot of things remain to do, but you can ask specific questions on them (searching before if they are not duplicates), as a follow-up of your question. For a trivial example: how to write chapter instead of Chap.?

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{aaai}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{xpatch}
\usepackage[style=authoryear-icomp]{biblatex}

% to leave out the : after In
% see moewe's first comment
\renewcommand*{\intitlepunct}{\addspace}

% to leave out the () around the year in bibliography
% (code from https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/40710/101651)
\xpatchbibmacro{date+extrayear}{%
    \printtext[parens]%
}{%
    \setunit{\addperiod\space}%
    \printtext%
}{}{}

% to remove the quote marks around titles
\DeclareFieldFormat[inproceedings]{title}{#1}   
\DeclareFieldFormat[incollection]{title}{#1}    
\DeclareFieldFormat[article]{title}{#1} 

% to remove pp before pages in bibliography
\DefineBibliographyStrings{english}{%
    page             = {\ifbibliography{}{p\adddot}},
    pages            = {\ifbibliography{}{pp\adddot}},
} 

% to put a comma before the and in author list
% see moewe's comments, the second one also for alternative solutions
\DefineBibliographyExtras{english}{\def\finalandcomma{\addcomma}}
\DeclareDelimFormat{finalnamedelim}{\finalandcomma\addspace\bibstring{and}\space}

% to invert last and first names in second author
% (code from: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/151827/101651)
\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{family-given}

% to avoid reference indentation
% code from https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/37775/101651
\setlength\bibhang{0pt} % default value: \parindent

% a bit of vertical space between items
\setlength\bibitemsep{.2\baselineskip} 

\begin{filecontents}{biblio.bib}
    @article{Stark04,
        author    = {T. Stark},
        title     = {{M}aintaining {K}nowledge about {W}eaponry},
        journal   = {International Journal of Armored Weapons},
        volume    = {26},
        number    = {11},
        pages     = {832--843},
        year      = {2004}
    }

    @incollection{Riddle94,
        author      = {T. M. Riddle},
        title       = {{I}ntegrating {P}otions and {D}eath {E}aters},
        editor      = {Mary Zen and Mark S. Furling},
        booktitle   = {Intelligent Magic},
        publisher   = {Morgan Kaufmann},
        year        = 1994,
        pages       = {169--212},
        chapter     = 6
    }

    @inproceedings{LutorK17,
        author    = {L. Lutor and C. Kent},
        title     = {
            {On The Effects of Mineral Mining from Alien Planets}
        },
        booktitle = {
            {Proc. of the 31st {AAAI} Conference on Alien
                Intelligence}
        },
        pages     = {3547--3554},
        year      = {2017}
    }
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{biblio.bib}

\title{How to be published on comics and fantasy books}
\author{Stan Lee}

\begin{document}

    \maketitle

    \section{Introduction}

    It is always good to cite \textcite{Riddle94,Stark04} and acknowledge
    \textcite{LutorK17}.

    \lipsum[1-5]

    \printbibliography


\end{document}