Alphabetic citation label with name only

Question

I use biblatex and I want to have a citation style with no date but initials of the authors such as "[BDM]" for three authors and "[Kr]" for one author.

In this case if there are more than one citation of the same author(s) then I want the citation style to continue by 1,2,3; such as "[AL1],[AL2]" or "[Br1],[Br2]"

Is it possible to make such changes in biblatex? My current settings are

\usepackage[backend=biber, style=alphabetic, giveninits=true,sorting=nyt]{biblatex}

This should be possible. But it is easier if you have a base to start from. Do you have a style that you like except for the labels, maybe alpha.bst or something else? — moewe, Aug 02 '18 at 19:49
What did you write in \bibliographystyle and which additional packages did you load (cite, natbib, jurabib, apacite, ...)? — moewe, Aug 02 '18 at 19:56
I have \usepackage[backend=biber, style=alphabetic, giveninits=true,sorting=nyt]{biblatex} and \addbibresource{sample.bib} which I included references. — 512122, Aug 02 '18 at 20:01
Then you are using biblatex. That is differently entirely. These kinds of misunderstandings and confusions are a reason why so often we ask for a MWE when you post a question. — moewe, Aug 02 '18 at 20:03
Related, but not real duplicates https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/415709/35864, https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/382859/35864, https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/320560/35864, though the combination of these answer would probably have solved this. — moewe, Aug 02 '18 at 20:22

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 02 '18 at 20:08

With biblatex and Biber you can control the format of the alphabetic labels with \DeclareLabelalphaTemplate. The additional disambiguation is normally a letter, but it can be turned into a number easily.

\documentclass[british]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}

\usepackage[style=alphabetic, backend=biber]{biblatex}

\DeclareLabelalphaTemplate{
  \labelelement{
    \field[final]{shorthand}
    \field{label}
    \field[strwidth=2,strside=left,ifnames=1]{labelname}
    \field[strwidth=1,strside=left]{labelname}
  }
}

\DeclareFieldFormat{extraalpha}{#1}

\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\begin{document}
\cite{sigfridsson,worman,nussbaum,companion,aksin,cotton,knuth:ct:a,knuth:ct:b}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

Alphabetic citation label with name only

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