Remove the colon after "in" in the bibliography

Question

While using biblatex with backend=biber,style=authoryear,sorting=ynt, the entry

@article{Author,
  author = {Author, I.},
  title  = {Title},
  journaltitle = {Journal},
  date   = {1980},
  volume = {23},
  number = {6},
  pages  = {121--123},
}

gets formatted as

Author, I. (1980). ``Title'' In: Journal 23.6, pp.121--123.

How may one remove the colon after "In"?

You've been a member of this page for over 10 years and you have asked 145 questions. Please start adding a MWE(B) to your questions and also have a look at https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/formatting how to format code blocks in your posts. — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz, Oct 02 '23 at 09:45
Isn't this a duplicate of Suppress "In:" biblatex? All that's required is \renewbibmacro{in:}{in}, no? — Mico, Oct 02 '23 at 11:16
Off topic: But isn't it 'better programming syntax' adding the string as bibstring and the space as bibunit? — lukeflo, Oct 02 '23 at 11:23
@Mico The questions are different, as one sees upon scrutinization. \renewbibmacro{in:}{in} does not resolve the problem, but lukeflo's answer does. So the question ought to be reopened, in my opinion. — Frode Alfson Bjørdal, Oct 02 '23 at 13:31
Voting to keep closed. \renewbibmacro{in:}{...} seems to work just fine with your code fragments, so it looks very much like a duplicate. If you disagree, you should show code which does not work. — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz, Oct 02 '23 at 13:51
I don't think https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/10682/35864 is a good duplicate. That question wants to remove the "in:" altogether. Here we only need to change the separator after the "in", which is much easier, especially since there is a dedicated macro for it. Voted to reopen. I half expected there to be a proper duplicate explaining \intitlepunct, but I couldn't find one just now, so I wrote an answer instead. — moewe, Oct 02 '23 at 14:59
There is https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/509074/35864, which is the reverse and links to a pretty complex code example. Then there are https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/175730/35864 and https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/172241/35864, which already assume one knows \intitlepunct. https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/668702/35864 comes closest to a duplicate amongst the questions I could find, but it is more complex because it is only about specific entry types. — moewe, Oct 02 '23 at 15:03

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 02 '23 at 14:55

The punctuation after "in" here is controlled by the macro \intitlepunct whose default definition (from biblatex.def, l. 178) is \addcolon\space to typeset a colon followed by a space.

\intitlepunct is explained as follows in the biblatex documentation (p. 124, §3.12.1 Generic Commands and Hooks, in v3.19)

[\intitlepunct] The separator between the word “in” and the following title in entry types such as @article, @inbook, @incollection, etc. The default definition is a colon plus an interword space (e.g., “Article, in: Journal” or “Title, in: Book”). Note that this is the separator string, not only the punctuation mark. If you don’t want a colon after “in”, \intitlepunct should still insert a space.

To get rid of the colon we can just say

\documentclass[british]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[backend=biber, style=authoryear]{biblatex}
\renewcommand*{\intitlepunct}{\addspace}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\begin{document}
Lorem \autocite{sigfridsson}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 02 '23 at 10:54

I felt so free to take your code and model a MWE.

You have to redefine the bibmacro in:. I guessed that you might want to add a space instead of the colon, but other punctuations are possible:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{filecontents}[overwrite]{\jobname.bib}
    @article{Author, 
    author = {Author, I.}, 
    title = {Title}, 
    journaltitle = {Journal}, 
    date = {1980}, 
    volume = {23}, 
    number = {6}, 
    pages = {121--123}, 
    }
\end{filecontents}
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=authoryear,sorting=ynt]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\renewbibmacro*{in:}{%
  \bibstring{in}%
  \printunit{\addspace}} % <--! here the space is added
\begin{document}
Cite something\parencite{Author}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

@Lukelo "I felt so free to take your code and model a MWE." That is what I want will happen, when I ask a question without using an MWE. — Frode Alfson Bjørdal, Oct 02 '23 at 13:34
Glad that it solves your problem. But in general, I agree with @samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz that offering a MWE is the task of the OP. In this case, it only took a few lines to create an example, but I wouldn't have done it if the question had been a little bit more complex. — lukeflo, Oct 02 '23 at 13:56

Remove the colon after "in" in the bibliography

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