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For my PhD thesis I am obliged to cite all my contributions, not only papers but also posters and talks given at conferences. Now I am struggling how to do this best. My best try so far looks like this:

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\usepackage[
    style=numeric-comp,
    bibstyle=numeric,
    backend=biber
]{biblatex}
\bibliography{mybib}

\begin{filecontents}{mybib.bib}
@inproceedings{Me2014,
author = {Me, P.},
title = {{Some Title}},
addendum = {Poster presented at some conference, Bremen, Germany}
}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{document}
Test citation~\cite{Me2014}.

\printbibliography

\end{document}

However, this produces the following: enter image description here

This looks weird since I did not provide any booktitle which results in an empty In. Is there a way to get rid of that?

DaPhil
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2 Answers2

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Why not just change the type from @inproceedings to @unpublished, which is a pretty flexible type.

Screenshot using @unpublished in place of @inproceedings

ig0774
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Possible duplicate of this question: What is the proper way to represent a talk at a conference (with no proceedings) in BibTeX (hopefully via Zotero)?

Normally, conferences have proceedings which are published before the corresponding conference takes place and contain the written version of your poster (short paper) or talk (long paper). In such a case, you don't cite your talk or poster per se, you cite the paper published in the Proceedings. This is the case where you would want to use @inproceedings and where it should be done like so:

@inproceedings{tag,
author = {P. Me},
title= {Some Title},
booktitle   = {Proceedings of the n-th edition of some conference},
year= {some year},
publisher = {The publisher of the proceedings},
pages     = {page where your paper starts-ends},
url       = {official link to the online version}
}

For unpublished papers, you would use @unpublished and for posters or talks with no written paper attached to it and available somewhere on the internet, you would use @misc

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Octavia-Maria Șulea
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    In my field not all conferences have proceedings, and those that do typically publish the proceedings well after the conference (perhaps a year later). – David Z Jul 23 '15 at 14:03
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    Incidentally, @misc seems like the right entry-type, but, at least in the numeric-comp style, it creates an entry with an italicised title, which is inappropriate when referring to a talk or conference poster. – ig0774 Jul 23 '15 at 14:29