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My goal is to achieve this Google Scholar style:

  • Entries are ordered as type->title->author->year->publisher->URL
  • Types are all caps (better: small caps), and in square brackets before titles
  • Titles of any type are large and in boldface
  • Only authors, years, publishers and URL are in the second line

Problems

  • How to show the type entry (book, article, artwork, unpublished)
  • How to swap entries?
  • How to make the author entry not showing family=X, given=Y?

MWE

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[url=false]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{test.bib}

\DeclareFieldFormat
  [book,article,artwork,unpublished,website]
  {title}{{\textbf{#1}}\newline}


\DeclareNameFormat
  [book,article,artwork,unpublished,website]
  {author}{{\small{#1}}}


\renewbibmacro{title+author}{%
  \printfield{title}%
  \setunit{\addcomma\space}%
  \printnames{author}%
  \setunit*{\addcomma\space}%
}


\begin{document}
\nocite{*}
\printbibliography
\end{document}


FYI: How to make bibliography tailored for non-academic readers?

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Ooker
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    https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/13076/50146 is also about how the field contents are displayed, not only which fields. You would need to give more details about your desired style. (How are @incollections displayed, how @articles?) But at the moment your question comes down to: Please code the entire style for me. It is not unheard of that questions like these are answered on this site. But they are not particularly well suited to the Q&A format where ideally you would focus on one particular issue. – moewe Dec 16 '17 at 09:02
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    Oh my god. Is there really a style like this? It looks imho rather horrible. – Ulrike Fischer Dec 16 '17 at 09:54
  • Well at least there is now only one fontfamily. But you still have two weights, two font sizes and two shapes. You are not writing a titlepage of the 19th century but some bibliography entries, there is no need to shout. I would use neither bold, nor a larger font, only perhaps some italic for the title. – Ulrike Fischer Dec 16 '17 at 15:24
  • @UlrikeFischer as I read the question there actually is a need to shout, that seems to be the point of the desired new style. – Marijn Dec 16 '17 at 17:12
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    @Marijn I don't see why a bib entry should shout. People who look at it are already interested enough. – Ulrike Fischer Dec 16 '17 at 17:54
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    @UlrikeFischer when I first did my undergraduate dissertation, I didn't understand why the titles didn't stand out. I still don't understand it. For me it's a natural thing to think of. The titles are interesting, the authors are not (unfortunately) – Ooker Dec 16 '17 at 18:29

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We can define a new bibliography driver and make all entry types use the same driver.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=authortitle]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\renewcommand*{\newunitpunct}{\addspace\bibrangedash\space}
\DeclareFieldFormat{entrytype}{{\small{\textsc{\mkbibbrackets{#1}}}}}
\DeclareFieldFormat*{title}{\mkbibbold{#1}}
\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{default}
\DeclareNameAlias{default}{family-given}
\DeclareDelimAlias{finalnamedelim}{multinamedelim}

\DeclareBibliographyDriver{googlescholarlike}{%
  \usebibmacro{bibindex}%
  \usebibmacro{begentry}%
  \printfield{entrytype}%
  \setunit{\addspace}\newblock
  \usebibmacro{title}%
  \printunit{\newline}\newblock
  \usebibmacro{author/editor+others/translator+others}%
  \newunit\newblock
  \usebibmacro{date}%
  \newunit\newblock
  \printfield{publisher}%
  \newunit\newblock
  \iffieldundef{doi}
    {\iffieldundef{eprint}
       {\printfield{url}}
       {\usebibmacro{eprint}}}
    {\printfield{doi}}% 
  \newunit\newblock
  \setunit{\bibpagerefpunct}\newblock
  \usebibmacro{pageref}%
  \newunit\newblock
  \iftoggle{bbx:related}
    {\usebibmacro{related:init}%
     \usebibmacro{related}}
    {}%
  \usebibmacro{finentry}
}

\setlength{\bibitemsep}{.5\baselineskip}

\defbibenvironment{bibliography}
  {\list
     {}
     {\setlength{\leftmargin}{0pt}%
      \setlength{\itemsep}{\bibitemsep}%
      \setlength{\parsep}{\bibparsep}}%
      \renewcommand*{\makelabel}[1]{\hss##1}}
  {\endlist}
  {\item}

\makeatletter
\def\do#1{\DeclareBibliographyAlias{#1}{googlescholarlike}}
\abx@doentrytypes
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\nocite{sigfridsson,ctan,cicero,worman,nussbaum,baez/online}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

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  • Can the numbers be removed? – Ooker Dec 19 '17 at 15:51
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    @Ooker Have a look at the edited answer, please. Of course there is no good way to cite the items any more. – moewe Dec 19 '17 at 15:59
  • What do you mean in the last sentence? I don't understand it – Ooker Dec 20 '17 at 04:31
  • @Ooker I mean to say that it is not clear at all what citations (in the text) should look like now. You haven't specified that and in the MWE \cite will produce numbers, but those are obviously useless now. – moewe Dec 20 '17 at 09:33
  • No, I don't use inline citation. This is written for popular audience, so I omit all distractions in the text – Ooker Dec 20 '17 at 09:44
  • the titles aren't emboldened if the package ebook is used. Is there any other option to make it bold besides using \DeclareFieldFormat*{title}{\mkbibbold{#1}}? Trying \DeclareFieldFormat{title}{\textbf{#1}} doesn't help – Ooker Dec 20 '17 at 10:14
  • @Ooker Works for me in the MWE if I change \documentclass{article} to book and load \usepackage{ebook}. Please test if this really has something to do with biblatex. Does \textbf{foo} work at all? You might want to ask a new question about that.# – moewe Dec 20 '17 at 10:19
  • are you using pdfLaTeX? I use XeLaTeX. It seems that it's the limitation of the package on the bibliography – Ooker Dec 20 '17 at 11:52
  • @Ooker Indeed, if compiled with XeLaTeX you'll find LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape 'TU/cmss/bx/n' undefined using 'TU/lmr/m/n' instead on input line 61. in the log. This means that the font does not have a bold shape if used with XeLaTeX. This is not a problem of the bibliography, but a general thing. \textbf{foo} doesn't work either. The package if used with XeLaTeX completely disables all font commands. – moewe Dec 20 '17 at 11:56
  • That's weird. I get similar warnings like that, but using \textbf{foo}\textit{foo} is fine. Document classes are book or report – Ooker Dec 22 '17 at 15:08
  • @Ooker Please make an MWE and ask a new question. Make it as minimal as possible. Try to reproduce the issue without biblatex. Since biblatex's commands are only wrappers around the standard commands it would really surprise me if \textbf worked but \mkbibbold didn't. Make your MWE as short as possible and provide the .log file as well. – moewe Dec 22 '17 at 15:11
  • Thanks for your input. Why doesn't \mkbibbold work while \textbf does when using the ebook package? – Ooker Dec 26 '17 at 11:11
  • Can the word url be removed? – Ooker Dec 26 '17 at 12:36
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    @Ooker \DeclareFieldFormat{url}{\url{#1}} – moewe Dec 26 '17 at 12:45