Biblatex citation styles
Introduction and example
Biblatex provides numerous citation styles but if no citation style is set LaTeX uses the one that matches the bibliography style. Here is a minimal example showing use of the biblatex
parameter style=alphabetic
to set the citation style to alphabetic
.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[
backend=biber,
style=alphabetic,
]{biblatex}
\title{A bibLaTeX example}
\addbibresource{sample.bib} %Imports bibliography file
\begin{document}
\section{First section}
Items that are cited: \textit{The \LaTeX\ Companion} book \cite{latexcompanion} together with Einstein's journal paper \cite{einstein} and Dirac's book \cite{dirac}---which are physics-related items. Next, citing two of Knuth's books: \textit{Fundamental Algorithms} \cite{knuth-fa} and \textit{The Art of Computer Programming} \cite{knuth-acp}.
\medskip
\printbibliography
\end{document}
Open this example in Overleaf (the sample.bib
file is created for you).
This example produces the following output:
Citation styles
Standard citation styles include:
numeric
Implements a numeric citation scheme intended for in-text citations. Should be employed in conjunction with the numeric bibliography style.
numeric-comp
Compact variant of thenumeric
mode. Citations like [1, 2, 3] are replaced by [1-3].
numeric-verb
Verbose variant of thenumeric
style. Instead of [2, 5, 7] will print [2];[5];[7].
alphabetic
Alphabetic citation scheme similar to the standardalpha
in style bibtex. To be used in conjunction with the alphabetic bibliography style.
alphabetic-verb
Verbose version of thealphabetic
style. Instead of [Doe98, Doe95, Farn2004] will print [Doe98];[Doe95];[Farn2004].
authoryear
Implements the author-year citation scheme. To be used in conjunction with the author-year bibliography style.
authoryear-comp
Compact variant of theauthoryear
style. Prints the author only once if subsequent references passed to a single citation command share the same author. Prints Doe 1992, 1995 instead of Doe 1992, Doe 1995.
authoryear-ibid
A variant of theauthoryear
intended for footnote citations. Replaces repeated citations by the abbreviation ibidem.
authoryear-icomp
A style combining the features ofauthoryear-comp
andauthoryear-ibid
authortitle
Implements the author-title scheme. Intended for citations given in footnotes.
authortitle-comp
Compact variant ofauthortitle
. Instead of Doe, First title; Doe, Second title this will print Doe, First title, Second title.
authortitle-ibid
A variant of theauthortitle
intended for footnote citations. Replaces repeated citations by the abbreviation ibidem.
authortitle-icomp
A style combiningauthortitle-comp
andauthortitle-ibid
.
authortitle-terse
Variant ofauthoritle
that only prints the title if the bibliography contains more than one work of the respective author/editor.
authortitle-tcomp
Style combiningauthortitle-terse
andauthortitle-comp
.
authortitle-ticomp
Style combiningauthortitle-icomp
andauthortitle-terse
.
verbose
Citation style that prints a full citation when the entry is cited for the first time and a short version afterwards.
reading
Citation style that goes with the bibliography style by the same name. Loads theauthortitle
style.
There are other non-standard citation styles popular in different journals and thesis
- In Sciences:
- American Chemical Society (ACS) style
- American Institute of Physics (AIP) style
- American Mathematical Society (AMS) style
- Vancouver system
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) style
- Nature style
- Science style
- In Humanities:
- Chicago Style
- Harvard referencing style
- MLA style
- In Socials:
- American Psychological Association (APA) style
Citation style | biblatex stylename
|
---|---|
ACS | chem-acs
|
AIP | phys (*)
|
Nature | nature
|
Science | science
|
IEEE | ieee
|
Chicago | chicago-authordate
|
MLA | mla
|
APA | apa
|
(*) this is a new style, see http://ctan.org/pkg/biblatex-phys
Further reading
For more information see