Changing the appearence of the bibliography using Biblatex

Question

I am struggling putting the bibliography in the required format. More precisely, a MWE of my code is

 \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
 \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
 \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
 \usepackage{graphicx}
 \PassOptionsToPackage{hyphens}{url}
 \usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}
 \usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
 \usepackage[
 backend=biber,
 style=authoryear,
 citestyle=authoryear,
 ]{biblatex}
 \addbibresource{test.bib}
 \begin{filecontents}{test.bib}
     @Book{Behrbohm2012,
        author    = {Behrbohm, Hans and Kaschke, Oliver and Nawka, Tadeus},
        title     = {Kurzlehrbuch Hals-Nasen-Ohren-Heil\-kunde},
        year      = {2012},
        edition   = {2. Auflage},
        publisher = {Thieme},
        location  = {Stuttgart},
     }
     @WWW{VisuellesDenken,
         author  = {Fritsche, Olaf},
         title   = {Visuelles Denken},
        year    = {2018},
        url     = {http://www.visuelles-denken.de},
        urldate = {2018-04-08},
     }
 \end{filecontents}
 \renewcommand{\labelnamepunct}{\addcolon\space}
 \DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{last-first}
 \DeclareNameAlias{author}{sortname}
 \DeclareNameAlias{editor}{sortname}
 \DeclareNameAlias{translator}{sortname}
 \renewcommand*{\multinamedelim}{\addnbthinspace\slash\addthinspace}
 \renewcommand*{\finalnamedelim}{\multinamedelim}
 \AtEveryBibitem{%
    \clearfield{month}%
    \ifentrytype{article}
    {\clearfield{volume}
        \clearfield{number}}
    {}
 }
 \renewbibmacro*{publisher+location+date}{%
    \setunit{\addcomma\space}
    \printlist{publisher}
     \setunit{\addcomma\space}%
     \printlist{location}%
     \setunit*{\addspace}%
     \usebibmacro{date}%
     \newunit}

 \renewbibmacro*{location+date}{%
     \setunit{\addcomma\space}%
     \printlist{location}%
    \setunit*{\addspace}%
     \usebibmacro{date}%
     \newunit}

 \renewbibmacro*{journal+issuetitle}{%
    \usebibmacro{journal}%
    \setunit*{\addspace}%
    \iffieldundef{series}
    {}
    {\newunit
        \printfield{series}%
        \setunit{\addspace}}%
    \usebibmacro{volume+number+eid}%
    \setunit{\addcomma\space}%
    \usebibmacro{issue+date}%
    \setunit{\addcolon\space}%
    \usebibmacro{issue}%
    \newunit}

 \renewbibmacro*{issue+date}{%
    \printfield{issue}%
    \setunit*{\addspace}%
     \usebibmacro{date}%
     \newunit}

 \renewbibmacro*{series+number}{%
     \iffieldundef{series}
     {}
     {\printtext[parens]{%
            \printfield{series}%
            \setunit*{\addspace}%
            \printfield{number}}}}

 \setlength{\bibhang}{0pt}
 \newcommand\blfootnote[1]{%
    \begingroup
    \renewcommand\thefootnote{}\footnote{#1}%
    \addtocounter{footnote}{-1}%
    \endgroup
 }
 \DeclareFieldFormat[article]{title}{{#1}}
 \DeclareFieldFormat[thesis]{title}{{#1}}
 \setlength{\parindent}{0pt}

 \DeclareFieldFormat{url}{\url{#1}}
 \setlength{\bibitemsep}{\baselineskip}


 \expandafter\def\expandafter\UrlBreaks\expandafter{\UrlBreaks%  save the      current one
    \do\a\do\b\do\c\do\d\do\e\do\f\do\g\do\h\do\i\do\j%
    \do\k\do\l\do\m\do\n\do\o\do\p\do\q\do\r\do\s\do\t%
     \do\u\do\v\do\w\do\x\do\y\do\z\do\A\do\B\do\C\do\D%
     \do\E\do\F\do\G\do\H\do\I\do\J\do\K\do\L\do\M\do\N%
     \do\O\do\P\do\Q\do\R\do\S\do\T\do\U\do\V\do\W\do\X%
     \do\Y\do\Z}
 %\DefineBibliographyStrings{german}{% 
 %  urlseen = {}, 
 %}
 \DeclareFieldFormat{urldate}{(Stand: #1)}
 \renewcommand*{\nameyeardelim}{\addcomma\space}
 \begin{document}
        \nocite{*}
        \printbibliography
 \end{document}

This produces

Behrbohm, Hans / Kaschke, Oliver / Nawka, Tadeus (2012): Kurzlehrbuch Hals- Nasen-Ohren-Heilkunde. 2. Auflage, Thieme, Stuttgart.

Fritsche, Olaf (2018): Visuelles Denken. http://www.visuelles-denken.de (Stand: 08. 04. 2018).

But what I am after is

Behrbohm, Hans / Kaschke, Oliver / Nawka, Tadeus (2012): Kurzlehrbuch Hals- Nasen-Ohren-Heilkunde, 2. Auflage, Thieme, Stuttgart.

Fritsche, Olaf (2018): Visuelles Denken, (http://www.visuelles-denken.de; Stand: 08. 04. 2018).

Thanks for your help.

\renewcommand*{\newunitpunct}{\addcomma\space} should help with the full stop vs comma issue. — moewe, Sep 29 '18 at 07:57
yeah, in fact \renewcommand*{\newunitpunct}{\addcomma\space} did the job. — julian, Sep 29 '18 at 08:00
What version of biblatex (check your .log file to find out, or report the Biber version) are you using? — moewe, Sep 29 '18 at 08:00
That version is quite old. (The current version is Biber 2.11. Biber 2.5 was released almost two and a half years ago.) Any chance of an update? (Do remember that biblatex and Biber must be updated at the same time and that you should not update packages from CTAN manually. You should use the facilities provided by your TeX distribution.) — moewe, Sep 29 '18 at 08:02

moewe · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-29T08:27:29.360

You can get commas instead of full stops in many places with

\renewcommand*{\newunitpunct}{\addcomma\space}

For the URL I would use

\DefineBibliographyStrings{german}{
  urlfrom = {Stand},
}

\DeclareFieldFormat{outerurl}{\mkbibparens{#1}}
\DeclareFieldFormat{url}{\url{#1}}
\DeclareFieldFormat{urldate}{\bibstring{urlfrom}\addcolon\space#1}

\renewbibmacro*{url+urldate}{%
  \iffieldundef{url}
    {}
    {\printtext[outerurl]{%
       \usebibmacro{url}%
       \iffieldundef{urlyear}
         {}
         {\setunit*{\addcomma\space}%
          \usebibmacro{urldate}}}}}

You should also be able to do away with the redefinition of \UrlBreaks if you just use the URL penalties instead as explained in the second half of Audrey's answer to URL line breaks with biblatex. hyperref should be loaded last.

MWE (modernised for current versions of biblatex)

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[
  backend=biber,
  style=authoryear,
]{biblatex}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}

\renewcommand*{\newunitpunct}{\addcomma\space}

\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{family-given}
\DeclareNameAlias{author}{sortname}
\DeclareNameAlias{editor}{sortname}
\DeclareNameAlias{translator}{sortname}

\DeclareDelimFormat{multinamedelim}{\addnbthinspace\slash\addthinspace}
\DeclareDelimAlias{finalnamedelim}{multinamedelim}

\DeclareDelimFormat[bib,biblist]{nametitledelim}{\addcolon\space}
\DeclareDelimFormat{nameyeardelim}{\addcomma\space}

\AtEveryBibitem{%
  \clearfield{month}%
  \ifentrytype{article}
    {\clearfield{volume}
     \clearfield{number}}
    {}}

\renewbibmacro*{publisher+location+date}{%
  \setunit{\addcomma\space}
  \printlist{publisher}
  \setunit{\addcomma\space}%
  \printlist{location}%
  \setunit*{\addspace}%
  \usebibmacro{date}%
  \newunit}

\renewbibmacro*{location+date}{%
  \setunit{\addcomma\space}%
  \printlist{location}%
  \setunit*{\addspace}%
  \usebibmacro{date}%
  \newunit}

\renewbibmacro*{journal+issuetitle}{%
  \usebibmacro{journal}%
  \setunit*{\addspace}%
  \iffieldundef{series}
    {}
    {\newunit
     \printfield{series}%
     \setunit{\addspace}}%
  \usebibmacro{volume+number+eid}%
  \setunit{\addcomma\space}%
  \usebibmacro{issue+date}%
  \setunit{\addcolon\space}%
  \usebibmacro{issue}%
  \newunit}

\renewbibmacro*{issue+date}{%
  \printfield{issue}%
  \setunit*{\addspace}%
  \usebibmacro{date}%
  \newunit}

\renewbibmacro*{series+number}{%
  \iffieldundef{series}
    {}
    {\printtext[parens]{%
       \printfield{series}%
       \setunit*{\addspace}%
       \printfield{number}}}}

\setlength{\bibhang}{0pt}
\newcommand\blfootnote[1]{%
  \begingroup
  \renewcommand\thefootnote{}\footnote{#1}%
  \addtocounter{footnote}{-1}%
  \endgroup
}
\DeclareFieldFormat[article,thesis]{title}{#1}

\DefineBibliographyStrings{german}{
  urlfrom = {Stand},
}

\DeclareFieldFormat{outerurl}{\mkbibparens{#1}}
\DeclareFieldFormat{url}{\url{#1}}
\DeclareFieldFormat{urldate}{\bibstring{urlfrom}\addcolon\space#1}

\renewbibmacro*{url+urldate}{%
  \iffieldundef{url}
    {}
    {\printtext[outerurl]{%
       \usebibmacro{url}%
       \iffieldundef{urlyear}
         {}
         {\setunit*{\addcomma\space}%
          \usebibmacro{urldate}}}}}

\setlength{\bibitemsep}{\baselineskip}

\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}


\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@Book{Behrbohm2012,
  author    = {Behrbohm, Hans and Kaschke, Oliver and Nawka, Tadeus},
  title     = {Kurzlehrbuch Hals-Nasen-Ohren-Heil\-kunde},
  year      = {2012},
  edition   = {2. Auflage},
  publisher = {Thieme},
  location  = {Stuttgart},
}
@WWW{VisuellesDenken,
  author  = {Fritsche, Olaf},
  title   = {Visuelles Denken},
  year    = {2018},
  url     = {http://www.visuelles-denken.de},
  urldate = {2018-04-08},
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

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

I would also not set the hanging indent in the bibliography to zero, the hanging indent makes it much easier to navigate the bibliography. I also can not recommend setting \parindent to zero, see https://komascript.de/node/2199 (in German, since your document is in German I assume you can read German, if not I apologize).

Ugh, I just realised there is a comma between the URL and the urldate and not a semicolon as desired: Let's say we leave the semicolon as an exercise to the reader. If you have trouble finding the right spot in the code to modify, just comment here. — moewe, Sep 29 '18 at 08:19

Changing the appearence of the bibliography using Biblatex

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