I'm using authoryear with some customisations to give me a bibliography entry like this:
Gal-Chen, T. and R. C. Somerville, 1975. On the Use of a Coordinate Transformation for the Solution of the Navier-Stokes Equations. J. Comp. Phys., 17, 209–228.
In my LaTeX file I use:
\usepackage{xpatch}
\usepackage[
backend=biber,
style=authoryear,
firstinits=true,
doi=false,
isbn=false,
uniquename=init]{biblatex}
And I define a biblatex.cfg file in the same directory:
\renewbibmacro{in:}{}
\AtEveryBibitem{%
\clearfield{number}%
}
\DeclareFieldFormat{pages}{#1}
\DeclareFieldFormat[article]{journaltitle}{\mkbibemph{#1},}
\DeclareFieldFormat[article]{volume}{\textbf{#1}}
\DeclareFieldFormat[article]{title}{#1\isdot}
\xpatchbibmacro{date+extrayear}{%
\printtext[parens]%
}{%
\setunit{\addcomma\space}%
\printtext%
}{}{}
How can I change the period to a colon after the year of publication?
\renewcommand*{\labelnamepunct}{\addcolon\space}should do it. But we really need an MWE to see whether this can help here. – moewe Jun 23 '14 at 19:02