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I would like minimal back-references, i.e., I would like

A. N. Other. 2001. The mother of all breakthroughs. World 3:141-592. 1.

instead of

A. N. Other. 2001. The mother of all breakthroughs. World 3:141-592. (Cited on page 1.)

The reason is that repeating "Cited on" seems unnecessary (it can be explained once) and in long bibliographies, it can add quite a few short lines (in my case, it adds nearly half a page).

The following MWE is adapted from this answer.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[backref=true]{biblatex-chicago}

\DefineBibliographyStrings{english}{%
  backrefpage = {},% originally "cited on page"
  backrefpages = {},% originally "cited on pages"
}


\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{A01,
 author = {Author, A.},
 year = {2001},
 title = {Alpha},
}
@misc{B02,
 author = {Buthor, B.},
 year = {2002},
 title = {Bravo},
}
\end{filecontents}


\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}


\begin{document}
Some text \autocite{A01,B02}.
\clearpage
Some more text \autocite{A01}.
\printbibliography
\end{document}

The bibliography it produces looks like this:

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How do I (a) get the parentheses to disappear and (b) remove the space before the first page reference?

user1362373
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1 Answers1

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You can modify the bibmacro pageref. The original definition can be found in biblatex.def (ll. 2949-2956 in v3.19).

Setting bibstrings to empty strings will usually not result in satisfactory output, since the styles generally assume that bibstrings produce output so that spurious space or punctuation appears.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[backref=true]{biblatex-chicago}

\renewbibmacro*{pageref}{%
  \iflistundef{pageref}
    {}
    {\printlist[pageref][-\value{listtotal}]{pageref}}}


\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}


\begin{document}
Some text \autocite{sigfridsson,worman}.
\clearpage
Some more text \autocite{sigfridsson}.
\printbibliography
\end{document}
moewe
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