biblatex-biber: How to customize the order in the bibliography?

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I am having difficulties with setting up the layout of my bibliography. I would like to have a numeric style which does a none sorting so its order is as it appears in the text. Plus I would like my bibliography entry to look like this (so authoryear style):

References

[1] Surname, Y.G. Year. Title ...

I don't know what to do and can't come up with anymore keywords to look for it. I just started using biblatex.

My setup is as follows:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\usepackage[
    backend=biber,
    bibstyle=authoryear,
    citestyle=numeric-comp
    sorting=none,
]{biblatex}

\bibliography{mybib}

\begin{document}

Structures \cite{definition}

\newpage

\printbibliography

\end{document}

Welcome to TeX.SX! You can highlight code blocks by either indenting them by four spaces or by selecting them and hitting {} from the editing gui. — , Jun 05 '15 at 09:00
A numeric style (getting little numbers pointing to the numbered bibliography entries) contradicts with an authoryear style (putting the names and years in the text and the bibliography). — Johannes_B, Jun 05 '15 at 11:47
I don´t want the authoryear style for the text. I´d like the numeric style but have my bibliography look like authoryear. There must be a way ?! — Solaro, Jun 06 '15 at 01:29
Sure there's a way (not necessarily easy), but I hope you realize that "authoryear" is not a style per se, but a general description of how bibliographical information should be sorted. An actual "authoryear" style usually involves a very detailed specification. Saying you want to use "authoryear" is kind of like saying you want a "primate" when you actually mean you want a squirrel monkey. — jon, Jun 06 '15 at 02:40
What you have shown in the question is a numeric bibliography style, you have a numeric label. To change the order of elements, you would have to change every single bibliographydriver and swap orders. — Johannes_B, Jun 06 '15 at 20:01
Do you have a link to some instructions or explanations how to change the bibliographydrivers ? — Solaro, Jun 07 '15 at 03:04
See also Biblatex enumerating sorted bibliography (using authoryear-ibid style) — moewe, Aug 12 '15 at 17:27

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

By default, biblatex's numeric styles use a authortite-flavoured bibliography style. But with a little trick we can make it use a authoryear one.

For this, use citestyle=numeric-comp, bibstyle=authoryear, as optional argument to biblatex and add

\makeatletter
\input{numeric.bbx}
\makeatother

to your preamble. Then the numeric bibstyle is applied to authoryear. This works because the numeric bibliography style numeric.bbx acts as a sort of "add-on" to the standard.bbx style and changes only definitions that do not conflict with authoryear.bbx.

It then only remains to drop the parentheses. The approach here was taken from lockstep's answer to biblatex: How to remove the parentheses around the year in authoryear style?. It requires the xpatch package

\xpatchbibmacro{date+extrayear}{%
  \printtext[parens]%
}{%
  \setunit{\addperiod\space}%
  \printtext%
}{}{}

MWE

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[
    backend=biber,
    citestyle=numeric-comp,
    bibstyle=authoryear,
]{biblatex}
\usepackage{xpatch}

\makeatletter
\input{numeric.bbx}
\makeatother

\xpatchbibmacro{date+extrayear}{%
  \printtext[parens]%
}{%
  \setunit{\addperiod\space}%
  \printtext%
}{}{}

\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\begin{document}
\cite{wilde,geer,worman}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

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Thank you very much !!! It works without a problem, very helpful !!! — Solaro, Jun 08 '15 at 02:08

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 06 '15 at 19:53

-1

I think what you are looking for, is the style of the bibliography. Maybe https://www.sharelatex.com/learn/Bibtex_bibliography_styles will help you

answered Jun 06 '15 at 19:53

katang

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That won't do any good, the styles (bst) of the BibTeX system are unrelated and incompatible with biblatex styles. – Johannes_B Jun 06 '15 at 20:02

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