Adjusting biblatex authoryear style (to closely resemble apalike)

Question

After reading yet another few hours I could not find a solution to obtaining the following citation style:

[Senarclens de Grancy and Reimann 2014]

together with the following format in the bibliography

[Senarclens de Grancy and Reimann, 2014] Senarclens de Grancy, G. and Reimann,
M.: "Vehicle routing problems with time windows and multiple service workers: a systematic comparison between ACO and GRASP"; Central European Journal of Operations Research 123, 1-20

Please note the square brackets in both the citation and bibliograpy. A bonus would be the colon followed by the title in quotation marks in the bibliography. Ideally, I'd like to stick with adjusting biblatex' authoryear style, however the closest I got to the above was using regular bibtex with \bibliographystyle{apalike}. A good hint was Biblatex, author-year, square brackets, but I couldn't manage to obtain the remaining adjustments. Any help is appreciated.

EDIT: As requested, here is a screenshot of how the bibliography should be rendered.

EDIT2: A code snippet I'm currently struggling w/ (copied together a few examples that' I honestly don't really understand)

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=authoryear]{biblatex}
\usepackage{filecontents}

\makeatletter

\newrobustcmd*{\parentexttrack}[1]{%
  \begingroup
  \blx@blxinit
  \blx@setsfcodes
  \blx@bibopenparen#1\blx@bibcloseparen
  \endgroup}

\AtEveryCite{%
  \let\parentext=\parentexttrack%
  \let\bibopenparen=\bibopenbracket%
  \let\bibcloseparen=\bibclosebracket}

\def\act@on@bibmacro#1#2{%
  \expandafter#1\csname abx@macro@\detokenize{#2}\endcsname
}
\def\patchbibmacro{\act@on@bibmacro\patchcmd}
\def\pretobibmacro{\act@on@bibmacro\pretocmd}
\def\apptobibmacro{\act@on@bibmacro\apptocmd}
\def\showbibmacro{\act@on@bibmacro\show}

\makeatother

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@Article{ SenarclensAndReimann:2014,
  author={{Senarclens~{d}e~Grancy}, Gerald and Reimann, Marc},
  title={Vehicle routing problems with time windows and multiple service
workers:   a systematic comparison between ACO and GRASP},
  issn={1435-246X},
  year={2014},
  journal={Central European Journal of Operations Research},
  publisher={Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
  doi={10.1007/s10100-014-0341-z},
  pages={1-20}
}
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}
    \textcite{SenarclensAndReimann:2014} \\
    \parencite{SenarclensAndReimann:2014} \\
    \autocite{SenarclensAndReimann:2014} \\
    \printbibliography
\end{document}

Answer 1

The part of the citations is working with your code. The part of bibliography is possible modifying the macros of the style.

a. The bibliography style authortitle is more similar to the style in the question that the authoryear. The it is suggested to use bibstyle=authortitle in the load of biblatex.

b. The example only use the initial of firstnames, then it is necessary to use firstinits=true

c. The style bibliography needs print all auhtor. This is possible using maxbibnames=99. (The name between brackets is treated below).

d. The first part in a bibliography item is the a "label" formed by the names of authors. The names are truncated if the number of author is greater to 2. Then is possible redefine the begentry macro. I.e

\renewbibmacro*{begentry}{%`
\mkbibbrackets{% Print between brackets
% Fist author only, if num. of authors is greater to 2.
\printnames[][1-\ifnumgreater{\value{labelname}}{2}{1}{\value{maxnames}}]{labelname}
\space\printfield{year}}\space%
\renewcommand{\newunitpunct}{\addsemicolon\space}%
 }

e. The @article entry don't use the word in: between title and journal. Then the in: macro is redefined to:

\newbibmacro*{in:}{}

f. The journal title is not emphasized. Then the journaltitle format is redefined to:

\DeclareFieldFormat{journaltitle}{{#1}}

g. The page part do not use the abbreviation of page word, then the formats of pages and pagetotal are redefined to:

\DeclareFieldFormat{pages}{{#1}}
\DeclareFieldFormat{pagetotal}{{#1}}

h. Finally, the sorting of author names is 'lastname'-'firstname' then are defined the format of author, editor and translator in the same form of the format last-first.

\DeclareNameAlias{author}{last-first}
\DeclareNameAlias{editor}{last-first}
\DeclareNameAlias{translator}{last-first}

The above 'code' do not reproduce all entries in the image in the questions, because is very difficult guess the style rules view only the picture. But is a answer to how add the brackets part in the bibliography and how edit a default style. I tried to reproduce the '[Hicks et al. 1998]' and [[Senarclens de Grancy and Reimann, 2014] citations. In the last I do not understand what is '123'. This part is not in the bibentry of the MWE.

MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=authoryear, maxbibnames=99, bibstyle=authortitle, firstinits=true,doi=false]{biblatex}
\usepackage{filecontents}

\makeatletter

\newrobustcmd*{\parentexttrack}[1]{%
  \begingroup
  \blx@blxinit
  \blx@setsfcodes
  \blx@bibopenparen#1\blx@bibcloseparen
  \endgroup}

\AtEveryCite{%
  \let\parentext=\parentexttrack%
  \let\bibopenparen=\bibopenbracket%
  \let\bibcloseparen=\bibclosebracket}


\def\patchbibmacro{\act@on@bibmacro\patchcmd}
\def\pretobibmacro{\act@on@bibmacro\pretocmd}
\def\apptobibmacro{\act@on@bibmacro\apptocmd}
\def\showbibmacro{\act@on@bibmacro\show}

\makeatother

\renewbibmacro*{begentry}{%
  \mkbibbrackets{%
  \printnames[][1-\ifnumgreater{\value{labelname}}{2}{1}{\value{maxnames}}]{labelname}%
  \space\printfield{year}}\space%
  \renewcommand{\newunitpunct}{\addsemicolon\space}%
 }

\newbibmacro*{in:}{}

\DeclareFieldFormat{journaltitle}{{#1}}

\DeclareFieldFormat{pages}{{#1}}
\DeclareFieldFormat{pagetotal}{{#1}}

\DeclareNameAlias{author}{last-first}
\DeclareNameAlias{editor}{last-first}
\DeclareNameAlias{translator}{last-first}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@Article{ SenarclensAndReimann:2014,
  author={{Senarclens~{d}e~Grancy}, Gerald and Reimann, Marc},
  title={Vehicle routing problems with time windows and multiple service
workers:   a systematic comparison between ACO and GRASP},
  issn={1435-246X},
  year={2014},
  journal={Central European Journal of Operations Research},
  publisher={Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
  doi={10.1007/s10100-014-0341-z},
  pages={1-20},
}

@Article{othercite,
  author={Hicks, D. and Leggett, J. and N{\"u}rnberg, P. and Schnase, J.},
  title={A hypermedia version control framework},
  number={2},
  year={1998},
  month={4},
  journal={ACM Trans. Inf. Sys.},
  publisher={Springer},
  volume={16},
  pages={127-160},
}

\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
 \renewcommand*{\labelnamepunct}{\addcolon\space}
 \newbibmacro*{volume+number+eid}{%
   \isdot\setunit*{\addcomma\space}%
   \printfield{volume}%
   \setunit*{\addcomma\space}%
   \printfield{number}%
   \setunit{\addcomma\space}%
   \printfield{eid}}

\begin{document}
    \textcite{SenarclensAndReimann:2014} \\
    \parencite{SenarclensAndReimann:2014} \\
    \autocite{SenarclensAndReimann:2014} \\


    \cite{othercite}
    \printbibliography
\end{document}

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