How to set uppercase title of bib-items with BibLaTeX?

Question

I am trying to set titles in bibliography and citations in upper case format (and I will be satisfied also for a solution only referred to bibliography).

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\DeclareFieldFormat{title}{\MakeUppercase{#1}}
\addbibresource{cited.bib}
\title{Just a joke}
\author{Francesco Contini}
\date{April 2023}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\section{Introduction}
We can argue that Milan is a bad city \cite[27--59]{contini2012}.
\printbibliography
\end{document}

But, it doesn’t work.

This is my my cited.bib file:

@book{contini2012, author={Contini, Francesco},title={Milano e le vanità},subtitle={Misteri e scheletri della città della moda},publisher={Viva Roma Editore},address={Roma},year={2012}}

Of course I’d like subtitles to observe the same rules as titles.

The code you show suggests it wants to change the format of the publisher, not the title. Which do you want to change? Note also that the style the MWE uses is the numeric style, which mentions neither titles nor publishers in citations. I think it would help if you could add the example entry contini2012 to your question and use it as an example to explain exactly which output you want. — moewe, Apr 29 '23 at 13:34
@moewe Just edited the question. I apologize and I confirm that the question concerns title format. I asked also for cite command, because I am interested for a generic solution, not only for numeric style, but also for other bibstyle, like philosophy-classic or verbose etc. The example of the quote is a simple book item: @book{contini2012, author={Contini, Francesco},title={Milano e le vanità},subtitle={Misteri e scheletri della città della moda},publisher={Viva Roma Editore},address={Roma},year={2012}} — cicciocontini, Apr 29 '23 at 13:53

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 29 '23 at 14:50

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Since you want to change the casing of the title, you redefine the special titlecase field format.

Casing commands are special and usually very sensitive with respect to the input they are fed, so they do not always work in all situations. In this case they don't work as expected when used for the title field format.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\DeclareFieldFormat{titlecase}{\MakeUppercase{#1}}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@book{contini2012,
  author    = {Contini, Francesco},
  title     = {Milano e le vanità},
  subtitle  = {Misteri e scheletri della città della moda},
  publisher = {Viva Roma Editore},
  address   = {Roma},
  year      = {2012},
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{document}
We can argue that Milan is a bad city \cite[27--59]{contini2012}.
\printbibliography
\end{document}

answered Apr 29 '23 at 14:50

moewe

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Thanks! How can I remove the emphasis? Is there another option, or have I just to input your solution with \em command and neutralise the italic? \DeclareFieldFormat{titlecase}{\MakeUppercase{\em#1}} – cicciocontini Apr 29 '23 at 15:19
@cicciocontini The emphasis comes from the "normal" title field format. See https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/462133/35864 for details on how to change that. – moewe Apr 29 '23 at 19:21
Well. So, I can use both commands. Thank you very much! – cicciocontini Apr 30 '23 at 20:05

How to set uppercase title of bib-items with BibLaTeX?

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