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What is the simplest way to make citation call-outs like this:

(Author year: page--range) e.g. (Chomsky 1957: 23--24)

or more complete:

(Author year, volume: page--range; Author2...) e.g. (Knuth 1973, 3: 234--236;...)

Edit: MWE (this is what I have tried):

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[backend=bibtex,style=authoryear]{biblatex}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@book{test,
  author = "Author",
  title = "Title",
  publisher = "Publisher",
  series = "Series",
  year = 2017,
}
\end{filecontents*}

\bibliography{\jobname}

\begin{document}
word\parencite[345]{test}, 
word2\parencite{test}
word3\parencite[345--347]{test}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

Edit 2:

It seems as if the two examples above aren't clear enough.

If the the citation is only one book (e.g. if it only one volume) then it should look like:

(Chomsky 1957: 23), if it's a page range (Chomsky 1975: 23--24).

(Without the p or pp prefix.)

If it's more than one book (e.g. if it has multiple volumes) then:

(Knuth 1973, 3: 234), if it's a page range (Knuth 1973, 3: 234--236)

The multiple citations should be separated with ;

aksr
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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=authoryear]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\DeclareFieldFormat{postnote}{#1}
\DeclareFieldFormat{multipostnote}{#1}
\DeclareFieldFormat{volcitepages}{#1}
\DeclareFieldFormat{volcitevolume}{#1}
\renewcommand*{\postnotedelim}{\addcolon\space}
\usepackage{mwepage}
\begin{document}
Wombat   \parencite[345]{aksin},                    \par
Capybara \parencite{aristotle:physics}              \par
Duck     \pvolcite{2}[345--347]{knuth:ct:b}         \par
Mara     \parencites[1--5]{westfahl:space}[7]{ctan}
\printbibliography
\end{document}
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