options for styling \fullcite

Question

I have a list of biblatex items in a document which additionally has a bibliography section. In this part I want to list some bibliography items with \fullcite but in a different style then the main bibliography.

I can change the number of authors like this:

\begingroup
\defcounter{minnames}{2}
\fullcite{key}
\endgroup

How can I further modify the style of \fullcite?

MWEB

\documentclass[en-US,de-DE]{article}

\usepackage[
  style=authoryear-ibid,
  maxnames=2,
  backend=biber,
  safeinputenc,
  isbn=false,
  doi=false,
  maxcitenames=2,
  urldate=iso8601,
  date=iso8601
]{biblatex}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@book{key,
  author = {Author, A.},
  year = {2001},
  title = {Title},
  publisher = {Publisher},
  pagetotal = {383},
  edition = {1},
  pages = {151--154},
  url = {http://www.google.com},
}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{document}
text1

\fullcite{key}

text2

\cite{key}

text3

\printbibliography[heading=bibintoc]

\end{document}

I want to remove the year, URLs from these items listed by \fullcite as well and any page numbers and the edition of books?

Answer 1

There are two ways you can do this: you can redefine the \fullcite command to clear the fields you don't want, or as noted in the comments, you can use \AtEverycitekey to do the same thing.

Conceptually, modifying \fullcite seems like the better solution, since using \AtEveryCitekey modifies any citation, so if you want to remove any information from the \fullcite that is normally included in the regular \cite then you must use this solution.

If you're just removing URL, edition and pages from the \fullcite there will be no bad side-effects of using \AtEveryCitekey since it is only the \fullcite citation command that would ever output those fields. But if you want to remove the year as well (as you mention in the comments), then modifying \fullcite is the only way to do it. I've removed the \AtEveryCitekey solution from the code for this reason, but placed it separately at the end.

Depending on the type of information you need to suppress, you may need to use one of \clearfield, \clearlist or \clearname. In the case of publisher, or location, for example, their type is a list, and so you need to use \clearlist to clear them. Section 2.2.2 of the biblatex documentation describes each field and its data type.

\documentclass[en-US,de-DE]{article}

\usepackage[
  style=authoryear-ibid,
  maxnames=2,
  backend=biber,
  safeinputenc,
  isbn=false,
  doi=false,
  maxcitenames=2,
  urldate=iso8601,
  date=iso8601
]{biblatex}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@book{key,
  author = {Author, A.},
  year = {2001},
  title = {Title},
  publisher = {Publisher},
  pagetotal = {383},
  edition = {1},
  pages = {151--154},
  url = {http://www.google.com},
}
\end{filecontents}

\DeclareCiteCommand{\fullcite}
  {\usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\clearfield{url}%
   \clearfield{pages}%
   \clearfield{pagetotal}%
   \clearfield{edition}%
   \clearfield{labelyear}%
   \usedriver
     {\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{default}}
     {\thefield{entrytype}}}
  {\multicitedelim}
  {\usebibmacro{postnote}}
\begin{document}
text1
\cite{key}

\fullcite{key}

text2

\cite{key}

text3

\printbibliography[heading=bibintoc]

\end{document}

Using \AtEveryCitekey

As noted above, using \AtEveryCitekey can also work if there is no overlap in the information you need in a regular cite and the information you suppress in the \fullcite. Here's the code to use that method:

\AtEveryCitekey{
\clearfield{url}
   \clearfield{pages}
   \clearfield{pagetotal}
   \clearfield{edition}
   \clearfield{labelyear}
}