How to change style in biblatex?

Question

How can I use change style in biblatex?

I want to use a specific style, probably ACM or IEEE and I don't know how to change that.

Below is the current code:

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
\usepackage[sorting=none]{biblatex}
\bibliography{MyCollection}
\begin{document} 
\printbibliography
\end{document}

Welcome to TeX.sx! You don't have to sign with your name since it automatically appears in the lower right corner of your post. — Werner, May 17 '12 at 01:35
Use \usepackage[style=IEEE,backend=biber,sorting=none]{biblatex} — , May 17 '12 at 01:37
For ACM have a look at http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/37006/biblatex-style-matching-stock-acm-style — , May 17 '12 at 01:46
oh so that is reverting to 'style' \bibliographystyle{} not using {biblatex}. Thats easy but I need sorting as none too. Do you know how to do sorting as none in bibliographystyle{} style? — sab, May 17 '12 at 01:59
@sab You seem to be mixing 'traditional' BibTeX up with biblatex. In the first instance I'd recommend taking a look at the biblatex manual. — Joseph Wright, May 17 '12 at 05:34

score 14 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

As an introduction to biblatex, you might want to read the biblatex tag info and maybe an example of basic usage.

biblatex comes with a variety of styles, these are described in the biblatex documentation (section 3.3), more styles can be found on CTAN. There exists a contributed style named IEEE or biblatex-ieee. You can easily use it as shown in the following MWE (or as in the comment by Harish Kumar):

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage[babel=true]{csquotes}
\usepackage[
    backend=biber,
    style=ieee,
    sorting=none
]{biblatex}
% \addbibresource{MyCollection.bib}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\begin{document}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet \cite{sigfridsson}.
At vero eos et accusam duo dolores \cite{kastenholz}.
\printbibliography
\end{document}

This MWE uses biber as a backend for sorting and \addbibresource{} instead of \bibliography{}.

An ACM style does not yet exist, you would have to define a style yourself. Again, Harish Kumar gave a good starting point for defining an ACM style. In the answer to that question, there are two examples, the first uses bibtex for formatting, the second example uses biblatex. These two should not be confused.

Is ACM at all like the IEEE style. I'm always willing to take on styles generally in the area I understand (numeric ones, not too complex, etc.) — Joseph Wright, May 22 '12 at 16:15
I'm sorry, I don't know. @lockstep starts from numeric in the question linked, so I would guess yes. The bibtex style is described here: http://www.acm.org/publications/latex_style/ — matth, May 22 '12 at 16:19

How to change style in biblatex?

1 Answers1