custom text in reference list

Question

I'm using Zotero to export my references to a .bib file.

Using biblatex and biber, is there a way to reproduce the kind of "custom" bibliography entry seen here:

This kind of reference list entry clearly doesn't conform to any obvious data structure, but is reasonably important in my field of study.

Perhaps these could help: https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/12806/105447 ; https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/6743/105447. Anyway, I think your question would clearly benefit if you stated explicitly the requirements you want/need, instead of just supplying an example of a single entry. — gusbrs, Jun 27 '17 at 19:42
It would also help if you could give an idea of the styles you are using at the moment (an MWE would make it easier for us to get started). A solution depends on the style you use. But I will admit that the output looks a bit non-standard, so we might have to get a bit hacky. — moewe, Jun 27 '17 at 19:59
Interestingly, this almost matches biblatex-sbl (though given the field, you don't want to use this). But it's similar to biblatex-chicago. In biblatex-sbl I made a custom entry type called conferencepaper. The "summarized in" bit can be handled using a related entry. As @moewe has said, we need to know the biblatex style you are using before giving an answer. — David Purton, Jun 28 '17 at 01:19
It would also be good to know what this type of reference is meant to look like in the bibliography (if it's different from the note). — David Purton, Jun 28 '17 at 01:59
@DavidPurton The snippet I included is the bibliography. In the text you'd just get [18] or Rhomberg (1966), depending on your style. — LondonRob, Jun 29 '17 at 11:02
@LondonRob Ah - my mistake. So what style are you currently using for all your other reference types? Just the default biblatex numeric style? Or something different/modified? a MWE with what you have so far would still be useful. — David Purton, Jun 29 '17 at 12:06

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 29 '17 at 13:50

This is really only to give you an idea of what is possible with biblatex. It will not give you the output you want for other reference types. But with this as a starting point and looking through the file standard.bbx and the biblatex manual, you should be able to set things up as you need.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[dateabbrev=false]{biblatex}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@conferencepaper{rhomberg:1945,
  author = {Rhomberg, Richard R.},
  title = {A Short-term World Trade Model},
  eventtitle = {First World Congress of the Econometric Society},
  venue = {Rome},
  eventdate = {1945-09-09/1945-09-14},
  related = {rhomberg:related},
  relatedstring = {summarized}
}
@suppperiodical{rhomberg:related,
  journaltitle = {Econometrica},
  volume = {34},
  date = {1966},
  pages = {90-91}
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\pagestyle{empty}
\DeclareBibliographyDriver{conferencepaper}{%
  \usebibmacro{bibindex}%
  \usebibmacro{begentry}%
  \usebibmacro{author/translator+others}%
  \setunit{\printdelim{nametitledelim}}\newblock
  \usebibmacro{title}%
  \newunit\newblock
  \usebibmacro{byauthor}%
  \newunit\newblock
  \usebibmacro{bytranslator+others}%
  \newunit\newblock
  \printtext[parens]{\usebibmacro{conf:event+venue+date}}%
  \newunit\newblock
  \iftoggle{bbx:related}
    {\usebibmacro{related:init}%
     \usebibmacro{related}}
    {}%
  \usebibmacro{finentry}}
\newbibmacro*{conf:event+venue+date}{%
  \printtext{Paper presented at the}%
  \setunit{\addspace}%
  \printfield{eventtitle}%
  \newunit
  \printfield{venue}%
  \newunit
  \printeventdate}
\DeclareFieldFormat[conferencepaper]{title}{\mkbibquote{#1\isdot}}
\DeclareFieldFormat{labelnumberwidth}{#1\adddot}
\DeclareFieldFormat{pages}{#1}
\DeclareFieldFormat[suppperiodical]{volume}{#1}
\renewcommand*{\newunitpunct}{\addcomma\space}
\renewcommand*{\bibpagespunct}{\addcolon}
\renewcommand*{\intitlepunct}{\addspace}
% the following section ensures that punctuation is inside quotation
% marks and formats the date as in your example: Day, Month Year
% (though why you would want a comma after the Day is a complete mystery
% to me)
\DefineBibliographyExtras{english}{%
  \uspunctuation
  \protected\def\mkdaterangecomp{%
    \mkdaterangetrunc{long}}%
  \protected\def\mkdaterangeterse{%
    \mkdaterangetrunc{short}}%
  \protected\def\mkdaterangecompextra{%
    \mkdaterangetruncextra{long}}%
  \protected\def\mkdaterangeterseextra{%
    \mkdaterangetruncextra{short}}%
  \protected\def\mkbibdatelong#1#2#3{%
    \iffieldundef{#3}
      {}
      {\thefield{#3}%
       \iffieldundef{#2}{}{\addcomma\nobreakspace}}%
    \iffieldundef{#2}
      {}
      {\mkbibmonth{\thefield{#2}}%
       \iffieldundef{#1}{}{\space}}%
    \iffieldbibstring{#1}
      {\bibstring{\thefield{#1}}}
      {\dateeraprintpre{#1}\stripzeros{\thefield{#1}}}}%
}
\begin{document}
Filler text \autocite{rhomberg:1945}.
\printbibliography
\end{document}

Impressive stuff David. I think it's fair to say that "there's no easy way that doesn't require some serious coding knowledge'' would be a good summary of this answer too! — LondonRob, Jun 30 '17 at 14:15

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