Unbold the citations

Question

I want to cite articles of bibliography using abbreviations as labels instead of numbers.

Looking in the Internet I found the commands below to do that.

The problem now is that the outputs are bold labels which I do not want. How can I unbold all the citations?

P.S. I know that there is another topic open but it is related to amsproc class while I am using the simple book class.

\documentclass[11pt]{book} 

%These commands serve to cite with abbreviations instead of numbers
\usepackage[backend=biber,url=true,style=alphabetic]{biblatex}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\DeclareLabelalphaTemplate{
  \labelelement{
    \field[final]{citekey}
  }
}

\begin{document}

... allow us to prove theorems 3.1 and 4.1 of \cite{author};

\begin{thebibliography}{1}
\bibitem{author} Authorname
\end{thebibliography}

\end{document}

biblatex does nothing at all if you directly include a thebibliography environment. — egreg, Sep 16 '17 at 11:00
@egreg: ok I didn't know that and I am ok in using directly thebibliography environment; how can I fix the bold citation problem? — Tommaso, Sep 17 '17 at 09:51
Either you don't use biblatex and have to do everything manually with thebibliography; or you use biblatex and drop thebibliography in favour of \printbibliography you will have to compile with Biber in that case, see Question mark or bold citation key instead of citation number and Biblatex with Biber: Configuring my editor to avoid undefined citations. — moewe, Sep 17 '17 at 10:05

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 16 '17 at 11:42

I believe that you want

\printbibliography

here's a complete MWE, complete with arara directives (just for example).

% arara: pdflatex
% arara: biber
% arara: pdflatex
\documentclass[11pt]{book} 

%These commands serve to cite with abbreviations instead of numbers
\usepackage[backend=biber,url=true,style=alphabetic]{biblatex}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{cmh.bib}
@online{author,
title="minimum working example",
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{cmh.bib}
\DeclareLabelalphaTemplate{
  \labelelement{
    \field[final]{citekey}
  }
}

\begin{document}

... allow us to prove theorems 3.1 and 4.1 of \cite{author};

\printbibliography

\end{document}

thank you but the problem still is there. In the body of the text, the citation appears in bold style while I want it in plain style. So, I am ok in using directly thebibliography environment instead of biblatex, provided that I will be able to have plain citations, not bold. — Tommaso, Sep 17 '17 at 09:49

Unbold the citations

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