BibLaTeX, how to customize authortitle style?

Question

really really new to LaTeX, I must admit.

I was wondering if is it possible to customize a biblatex style since I looked and looked but none matches the one required by my university.

Briefly (an @article here as an example)

this is what I get with authortitle: Smith, J. “Article Title”. In:Journal Name(1999), pp. 1-10

this is what I need: J. Smith, Article Title in Journal Name, 1999, pp. 1-10

To sum up the differences: No quotation marks, no parentheses, no colon and possibly inverted order in the name.

thanks everybody in advance

Answer 1

One example of one particular @article entry is by far not enough to implement a complete bibliography style with biblatex, but the following can be a start.

The code is based on ext-authortitle from my biblatex-ext bundle (because that makes a few modifications easier). Most commands below should have fairly self-explanatory names (you can also look up most things in the biblatex documentation or the biblatex-ext documentation), but I'll be happy to answer any questions in the comments.

\documentclass[british]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[
  backend=biber,
  style=ext-authortitle,
  giveninits,
  uniquename=init
]{biblatex}
\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{default}
\renewcommand*{\newunitpunct}{\addcomma\space}
\DeclareDelimFormat[bib]{nametitledelim}{\addspace}
\DeclareFieldFormat*{title}{\mkbibemph{#1}}
\renewcommand{\intitlepunct}{\addspace}
\renewbibmacro{in:}{%
  \setunit{\addspace}%
  \bibstring{in}%
  \printunit{\intitlepunct}}
\renewcommand*{\volnumdatedelim}{\addcomma\space}
\DeclareFieldFormat{issuedate}{#1}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\begin{document}
Lorem \autocite{sigfridsson}
\printbibliography
\end{document}