\mkbibquote used referencing title of a paper is "paper". How about 'paper'?

Question

How to make the title of the paper from:

NoiseSpeech, a noise of living bodies : towards Attali's "Composition"

to

NoiseSpeech, a noise of living bodies : towards Attali's 'Composition'

I am using:

  title={NoiseSpeech, a noise of living bodies: towards Attali's \mkbibquote{Composition}},

My MWE:

% \documentclass[12pt,oneside]{book}  % Remove draft option to show figures (for final draft), otherwise keep for faster production
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem} % macros to modify appearance of 'itemize' environments

\usepackage{xpatch}

\usepackage[backend=biber, 
% style=authoryear, 
 style=authoryear-comp,
% citestyle=authoryear, 
dashed=false,
maxcitenames=2,
maxbibnames=99,
giveninits,
uniquename=init]{biblatex}


\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{family-given} %for second and third author name

\renewcommand{\labelnamepunct}{\space} %to delete . after (1997)

\DeclareFieldFormat[article, incollection, unpublished]{title}{#1}

\DeclareFieldFormat*{title}{#1} %for conference title delete ".."
\DeclareFieldFormat[incollection]{title}{\mkbibemph{#1}} %for incollecion title italic ONLY
\DeclareFieldFormat[thesis]{title}{\mkbibemph{#1}} %for phdthesis title italic ONLY



\renewbibmacro{in:}{%
  \ifentrytype{article}{}{\printtext{\bibstring{in}\intitlepunct}}}



\newcommand*{\volnumdelim}{}
\DeclareFieldFormat[article,periodical]{number}{\mkbibparens{#1}}

\renewbibmacro*{volume+number+eid}{%
  \printfield{volume}%
  \setunit*{\volnumdelim}%
  \printfield{number}%
  \setunit{\addcomma\space}%
  \printfield{eid}}

\newcommand*{\jourvoldelim}{\addcomma\space}
\newcommand*{\jourserdelim}{\newunitpunct}
\newcommand*{\servoldelim}{\jourvoldelim}
\newcommand*{\volnumdatedelim}{\addspace}

\renewbibmacro*{journal+issuetitle}{%
  \usebibmacro{journal}%
  \setunit*{\jourvoldelim}%
  \iffieldundef{series}
    {}
    {\setunit*{\jourserdelim}%
     \printfield{series}%
     \setunit{\servoldelim}}%
  \usebibmacro{volume+number+eid}%
  \setunit{\volnumdatedelim}%
  \usebibmacro{issue+date}%
  \setunit{\addcolon\space}%
  \usebibmacro{issue}%
  \newunit}  
% to make volume (number), eg. 4(2)



% for delete comma after Author A and Aurhor b
\DefineBibliographyExtras{english}{%
   \let\finalandcomma\empty
   \let\finalandsemicolon\empty
 }

\renewcommand{\compcitedelim}{\addsemicolon\space}
\DeclareNameAlias{editorin}{given-family}

\newbibmacro*{byeditor:in}{%
  \ifnameundef{editor}
    {}
    {\printnames[editorin]{editor}%
     \setunit{\addcomma\space}%
     \usebibmacro{editorstrg}%
     \clearname{editor}}}     


\xpatchbibdriver{inbook}
  {\usebibmacro{in:}%
   \usebibmacro{bybookauthor}%
   \newunit\newblock
   \usebibmacro{maintitle+booktitle}%
   \newunit\newblock
   \usebibmacro{byeditor+others}}
  {\usebibmacro{in:}%
   \usebibmacro{bybookauthor}%
   \newunit\newblock
   \usebibmacro{byeditor:in}%
   \newunit\newblock
   \usebibmacro{maintitle+booktitle}%
   \newunit\newblock
   \usebibmacro{byeditor+others}}
  {}{}



% \usepackage{parskip}  

\usepackage[hypcap=false]{caption}

\usepackage{csquotes}

\usepackage[unicode,colorlinks,citecolor=blue]{hyperref}




\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}


@article{dean2005noisespeech,
  title={NoiseSpeech, a noise of living bodies: towards Attali's \mkbibquote{Composition}},
  author={Dean, Roger T},
  journal={NMEDIAC: Journal of New Media \& Culture},
  year={2005},
  number={1},
  volume={3}
}


\end{filecontents*}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}
\nocite{*}


 in \textcite{dean2005noisespeech} 


\printbibliography
\end{document}

This depends on your babel language settings. What language are you using? American English uses double quotes (by default). British and Australian English uses single quotes. You can load the csquotes package and specify what style you want for outer and inner quote marks too. — David Purton, Sep 25 '19 at 00:44
Oh! I see you are just using \usepackage[english]{babel}. You could specify \usepackage[british]{babel} and you will get single quotes everywhere at the outer level. But this may not be what you want and will also affect other things like date format. — David Purton, Sep 25 '19 at 00:46
@DavidPurton. Thanks. If did not use \usepackage[british]{babel}. How can do a csquotes. In my MWE above, I do not have this \usepackage[british]{babel} — aan, Sep 25 '19 at 09:26
You could replace \usepackage{csquotes} with \usepackage[style=british]{csquotes}. — David Purton, Sep 26 '19 at 00:18
@DavidPurton thanks. I had added in \usepackage[style=british]{csquotes}. However, overleaf said LaTexError: Option clash for packae csquotes and please see your \documentclass declaration may fix this. I check mine, i am using \documentclass[12pt,oneside]{book}. — aan, Sep 26 '19 at 12:53
You already load \usepackage{csquotes}. You're loading it twice now. Remove \usepackage{csquotes}. — David Purton, Sep 26 '19 at 13:59
@DavidPurton, Yes, I did that. I only have \documentclass[12pt,oneside]{book} and \usepackage[style=british]{csquotes}. It said: LaTexError: Option clash for packae csquotes and please see your \documentclass declaration may fix this. — aan, Sep 26 '19 at 14:15
The fact that you get the option clash means that you are loading it more than once with different options. Look for csquotes elsewhere in your code or included files. I do not get this error in your MWE and it successfully gives me only single quotes. — David Purton, Sep 27 '19 at 00:19
@DavidPurton, thanks. Is my mistake, it worked. Secondly, I am not sure is answer will create an issue of the letter = J in my reference as I asked in https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/510018/why-my-j-appear-in-referencing-is-different-from-appear-in-the-normal-j-chap — aan, Sep 27 '19 at 15:33

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 02 '19 at 06:58

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There are a few different ways you can do this:

You can change your language to british (or australian) which uses single quotation marks for outer marks. i.e.,

\usepackage[british]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage{biblatex}

Bear in mind that this will also change other language related things like date formats.

The other option is to specify the quotation style directly with csquotes. i.e.,

\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[style=british]{csquotes}
\usepackage{biblatex}

This will use British style single quotation marks for outer quotation marks, but keep other language settings to babel's default for english (basically American English).

answered Oct 02 '19 at 06:58

David Purton

25,884

thanks. Can I know is this related to all punctuation, like in https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/510630/is-using-addendum-for-accessed-date-for-citing-a-website-in-biblatex – aan Oct 02 '19 at 07:03
@aan, I'll answer that in a moment. – David Purton Oct 02 '19 at 07:04
Do you have time to look at citing secondary source in this question link here https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/516877/how-to-cite-secondary-source-textciteprimarysource-parencitecited-insec – aan Nov 18 '19 at 08:30

\mkbibquote used referencing title of a paper is "paper". How about 'paper'?

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