I struggle with some biblatex settings (Style 2 of Annual Reviews):
1) The citations in the text should appear with parentheses instead of brackets and ampersand instead of 'and', so: Tex et al. (1), Ba & Rise (2).
2) In the references, the entries should appear like this
- Tex L, Bar F, Rate P. 2011. Minimal title. Journal of LaTeX questions. 1(1):110--20
- Ba K, Rise S. 2012. Minimal title. Journal of BibLaTeX questions. 1(1):110--31
I tried to adapt the numeric style (in order to get consecutively numbered citations), but that might not be a good idea (?). For example, concerning 1), I found biblatex: How to remove the parentheses around the year in authoryear style? but the trick by A. Munn there to get rid of the parentheses around the year does not seem to carry over to numeric citation styles.
I know that some requirements are probably hard to get (for, example, the page range 110--20 instead of 110--120), but any help towards achieving 1) and 2) is appreciated.
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[
backend=bibtex,
style=numeric,
sorting=none,
firstinits=true,
terseinits=true,
uniquename=init,
maxcitenames=2,
date=iso8601,
urldate=iso8601
]{biblatex}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{bib.bib}
@Article{foo,
author={Tex, La and Bar, Foo and Rate, Pi},
journal={Journal of LaTeX questions},
pages={110--120},
title={{Minimal title}},
volume={1},
number={1},
year={2011}}
@Article{bar,
author={Ba, Ka and Rise, Sun},
journal={Journal of BibLaTeX questions},
pages={110--131},
title={{Minimal title}},
volume={1},
number={1},
year={2012}}
\end{filecontents*}
% bibliography
\DeclareFieldFormat{labelnumberwidth}{#1.}% use 1., 2., ... in the references
\DeclareNameAlias{default}{last-first}
\renewbibmacro*{volume+number+eid}{% use volume(number) for articles for example
\setunit*{\adddot\space}%
\printfield{volume}%
\printfield{number}}
\DeclareFieldFormat*{number}{(#1)}
\DeclareFieldFormat*{title}{#1}% remove quotes from title
\renewbibmacro*{in:}{}% remove in label
\DeclareFieldFormat{isbn}{ISBN #1}% format isbn number
\bibliography{bib.bib}% bibliography data
\renewcommand*{\cite}[2][]{\textcite[#1]{#2}}
\begin{document}
\blindtext[1]; see \cite{foo}, \cite{bar}.
\printbibliography
\end{document}

\newcommandfor\revsdnamepunct(was undefined) to work. Then, I get a similar output as you, but the references appear as "Tex, L, Bar, F, Rate, P." so with commas (?). I use the basic biblatex as comes with texlive 2012 (on Ubuntu 12.10). Apart from that, do you know how to get "1(1):110--31" instead of "1(1), 110--31"? Many thanks again. – Marius Hofert Nov 28 '12 at 10:11biblatexv2.2 (which introduced\revsdnamepunct), use my original answer to http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/17583/biblatex-remove-commas-between-last-and-first-names-in-bibliography b) See updated answer. – lockstep Nov 28 '12 at 10:21\spacein\xapptobibmacro{journal+issuetitle}{\addcolon\space}{}{}but that does not seem to affect the problem. – Marius Hofert Nov 28 '12 at 16:46\unskipas sort of a hack. – lockstep Nov 28 '12 at 17:08