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I usually add my publications to my CV from my bib file (using biblatex). At first, I used to manually cite each entry, but as the list grows, it's becoming a chore (especially since there are quite a few publications in between my CV updates and I can never seem to remember the chronological order). I would like to be able to tell biblatex to scan my bib file, pull out all @article entries and cite them under a heading "Journal publications", then all the @inproceedings entries and cite them under "Conference proceedings" and so on (i.e., without individually citing them).

I can manage naming/styling the sections and headings, but I'm stuck at doing the automatic citing. How can I do this? Here's a very minimal example without the frills to get started:

The .bib file:

@article{Doe2012a,
    author  = {J. Doe},
    title   = {Lorem Ipsum -- Part I},
    journal = {J. Dolor Sit Am.},
    volume  = {1},
    pages   = {1--10},
    month   = {1},
    year    = {2012},
}

@article{Doe2012b,
    author  = {J. Doe},
    title   = {Lorem Ipsum -- Part II},
    journal = {J. Dolor Sit Am.},
    volume  = {2},
    pages   = {11--20},
    month   = {2},
    year    = {2012},
}

@book{Doe,
    author    = {J. Doe},
    title     = {Lorem Ipsum -- Complete Works},
    publisher = {{Dolor S. Amet and Sons}},
    year      = {2011},
}

The .tex file:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{biblatex,lipsum}
\addbibresource{path/to/bib/file}

\begin{document}
\section{Lorem Ipsum}
\lipsum[1]
\subsection{Publications}
%Scan the bib file and print all @article entries in descending order here!

\section{Dolor sit Amet}
\lipsum[1]
\end{document}

1 Answers1

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I think you want to use the type=<entrytype> option to \printbibliography (§ 3.6.2 in the manual). E.g.:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\begin{document}
\nocite{*}

\printbibliography[title=Articles, type=article]

\printbibliography[title={Conference Proceedings}, type=inproceedings]

\end{document}

Using the supplied bibliography items:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{Doe2012a,
    author  = {J. Doe},
    title   = {Lorem Ipsum -- Part I},
    journal = {J. Dolor Sit Am.},
    volume  = {1},
    pages   = {1--10},
    month   = {1},
    year    = {2012},
}

@article{Doe2012b,
    author  = {J. Doe},
    title   = {Lorem Ipsum -- Part II},
    journal = {J. Dolor Sit Am.},
    volume  = {2},
    pages   = {11--20},
    month   = {2},
    year    = {2012},
}

@book{Doe,
    author    = {J. Doe},
    title     = {Lorem Ipsum -- Complete Works},
    publisher = {{Dolor S. Amet and Sons}},
    year      = {2011},
}
\end{filecontents}

\usepackage[backend=biber, sorting=nty, style=authoryear]{biblatex}
%\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}
\nocite{*}
\printbibliography[title=Articles, type=article]
\printbibliography[title={Conference Proceedings}, type=inproceedings]
\printbibliography[title={Books}, type=book]
\end{document}

I get the two articles under 'Articles' and the one book under 'Books', while the nothing is printed under 'Conference Proceedings' (including even the section title).

jon
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    Ooh, that does looks like what I need! Thanks. However, I seem to be getting only one bib item displayed in the output (although I agree that this should work in principle). Do you have any ideas of what could've happened? –  Jan 17 '13 at 06:32
  • @user24497 -- If I try using your supplied bib entries (and add a line for type=book), I get the two entries under 'Articles', nothing under 'Conference Proceedings', and one entry under 'Books'. Are you using the same bib items? – jon Jan 17 '13 at 06:50
  • If I run your self-contained .tex file using my MWE, I get LaTeX Warning: Empty bibliography on input line 38. (and for lines 39 and 40), which correspond to the three \printbibliography statements and no PDF file is output. –  Jan 17 '13 at 06:59
  • @user24497 -- Yes, but then run biber and latex again. (Or use bibtex, but then fix the options to biblatex....) – jon Jan 17 '13 at 07:00
  • d'oh! I forgot to set my vim-latex compiler to biber! Thanks! It works perfectly now :) –  Jan 17 '13 at 07:06
  • @user24497 -- haha. I do that sort of thing all the time. ... Well, I should probably say, I would do that sort of thing all the time -- if not for emacs ;) – jon Jan 17 '13 at 07:09
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    Haha, there was a time when I would've taken the bait, but these days, I go after the cavemen that still use notepad/gedit =) –  Jan 17 '13 at 07:13