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When e.g. citing a film, I think using the film's director and producer as the author of the work is appropriate. Thus I would like to add their role in the production behind their names in parentheses. However doing

author = {Stanton, Andrew (Director) and Walters, Graham (Producer)}

will put (Director) as the second given name when using a reference style starting with the first name. Is there a way to represent this that will work independently of the style of the bibliography?

grinsekrokodil
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There is a way to do this, but you may find yourself mired quite quickly.

The standard schemes have some "uncommitted" fields editora and editoratype and editorb etc which can be used for non-standard "roles". By default they get printed after the title, as "by ..." using a bibstring called byx where x is the relevant type, so if editoratype is redactor, it gets printed using the byredactor string.

To leverage this, in the standard styles, you need (a) to define a suitable by... string, because the ones you want are not pre-defined, and (b) to use it appropriately in the .bib file. It's easier to explain by example below:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
  @film{nemo,
    editora = {Stanton, Andrew},
    editoratype = {director},
    editorb = {Walters, Graham},
    editorbtype = {producer},
    title = {Finding Nemo},
    date = 2003,
    }
\end{filecontents}

\usepackage[style=verbose]{biblatex}

\NewBibliographyString{bydirector, bydirectors, byproducer, byproducers}
\DefineBibliographyStrings{english}{%
  bydirector = {Directed by},
  bydirectors = {Directed by},
  byproducer = {Produced by},
  byproducers = {Produced by},
}


\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}

\nocite{*}

\printbibliography

\end{document}

Produces

image of result

However, if you pursue this you will always certainly find yourself wanting to adapt the whole citation system to cope properly with films. (I was surprised, frankly, that @film even worked!) I haven't checked, but I have a feeling that the biblatex-chicago systems have something properly worked out for this. And there may well be other specialised systems, which if you want to use this a lot are probably worth pursuing.

Paul Stanley
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    authortype is also useful. – cfr Apr 04 '17 at 01:44
  • biblatex-chicago indeed has some support for film types (@video), and apparently already defines director and producer bibstrings. There is also biblatex-fiwi ('fiwi' for Filmwissenschaften) with extensive support for all kinds of these things (@movie/@video), but the documentation is in German. – moewe Apr 04 '17 at 07:29