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Firstly. in my reference, it supposes to be 'Composition', but it turns up to be

’Composition’

below:

title={NoiseSpeech, a noise of living bodies: towards Attali's 'Composition'}

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Secondly, why the volume and number do not shown correctly. It supposes to be In:NMEDIAC: Journal of New Media & Culture, 3.1 and not In:NMEDIAC: Journal of New Media & Culture 3.1 (see comma after Culture). 

@article{mcintosh1997rhythmic,
  title={NoiseSpeech, a noise of living bodies: towards Attali's 'Composition'},
  author={Dean, Roger T},
  journal={NMEDIAC: Journal of New Media \& Culture},
  year={2005},
  number={1},
  volume={3}
}

The full code:

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}

@article{mcintosh1997rhythmic,
  title={NoiseSpeech, a noise of living bodies: towards Attali's 'Composition'},
  author={Dean, Roger T},
  journal={NMEDIAC: Journal of New Media \& Culture},
  year={2005},
  number={1},
  volume={3}
}


\end{filecontents}


\documentclass[british]{article}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}

\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[%
  style=authoryear, 
  backend=biber, 
  maxcitenames=2,
  giveninits
]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib} % \jobname to use the bib file created with filecontents
\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{family-given}

\usepackage[unicode,colorlinks,citecolor=blue]{hyperref}
\renewcommand*{\nameyeardelim}{\addcomma\space}

\newcommand{\mycite}[1]{\citeauthor{#1}'s \citeyear{#1}}

\makeatother


\begin{document}

According to \citeauthor{mcintosh1997rhythmic}'s studies 
\autocite*{mcintosh1997rhythmic}, blablabla 

\verb|\mycite|: \mycite{mcintosh1997rhythmic} ->        McIntosh et al. (1990) 

\verb|\textcite|: \textcite{mcintosh1997rhythmic}   ->        McIntosh et al. (1997) 

\verb|\parencite|: \parencite{mcintosh1997rhythmic}  ->        (McIntosh et al., 1997) 

\printbibliography
\end{document}
Mensch
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aan
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1 Answers1

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You should use \mkbibquote{…} in your title to ensure you get context sensitive quotes that alternate between ‘’ and “”.

As an aside, the standard way of writing left single and double quotes in LaTeX is to use a single and double backtick respectively. And the way to write right single and double quotes is the use a single and double straight quote respectively. See this question.

You can redefine the volume+number+eid bibmacro to ensure that there is a comma before it.

MWE

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}

@article{mcintosh1997rhythmic,
  title={NoiseSpeech, a noise of living bodies: towards Attali's \mkbibquote{Composition}},
  author={Dean, Roger T},
  journal={NMEDIAC: Journal of New Media \& Culture},
  year={2005},
  number={1},
  volume={3}
}


\end{filecontents}


\documentclass[british]{article}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}

\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[%
  style=authoryear, 
  backend=biber, 
  maxcitenames=2,
  giveninits
]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib} % \jobname to use the bib file created with filecontents
\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{family-given}

\usepackage[unicode,colorlinks,citecolor=blue]{hyperref}
\renewcommand*{\nameyeardelim}{\addcomma\space}

\newcommand{\mycite}[1]{\citeauthor{#1}'s \citeyear{#1}}

\renewbibmacro*{volume+number+eid}{%
  \setunit{\addcomma\space}%
  \printfield{volume}%
  \setunit*{\adddot}%
  \printfield{number}%
  \setunit{\addcomma\space}%
  \printfield{eid}}

\begin{document}

According to \citeauthor{mcintosh1997rhythmic}'s studies 
\autocite*{mcintosh1997rhythmic}, blablabla 

\verb|\mycite|: \mycite{mcintosh1997rhythmic} ->        McIntosh et al. (1990) 

\verb|\textcite|: \textcite{mcintosh1997rhythmic}   ->        McIntosh et al. (1997) 

\verb|\parencite|: \parencite{mcintosh1997rhythmic}  ->        (McIntosh et al., 1997) 

\printbibliography
\end{document}

MWE output

David Purton
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  • thanks. How do you get this \renewbibmacro*{volume+number+eid}{% \setunit{\addcomma\space}% \printfield{volume}% \setunit*{\adddot}% \printfield{number}% \setunit{\addcomma\space}% \printfield{eid}} from? – aan Sep 04 '19 at 13:10
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    @aan, have a look through standard.bbx. Look for the article driver. You will see that it calls the journal+issuetitle macro. Look down lower in the file for the definition of journal+issuetitle and you will see it calls volume+number+eid. Notice that a space is inserted before the volume in the journal+issuetitle macro. Look down a little lower and find the volume+number+eid macro and you can see that we can insert a comma before the macro. biblatex tracks punctuation so only the most recently inserted punctuation set with \setunit is actually inserted. – David Purton Sep 04 '19 at 13:15
  • thanks. Is this link http://ctan.math.utah.edu/ctan/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-phys/phys.bbx correct? I googled standard.bbx, it ended up standard bbc – aan Sep 04 '19 at 13:45
  • @aan No, this file: http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex/latex/bbx/standard.bbx. You can find it on your own computer by running kpsewhich standard.bbx in a console. – David Purton Sep 04 '19 at 13:47