BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ biblatex 0.9 & apalike

[duboismathieu]

Hello,

I'm using biblatex 0.9 (Ubuntu 11.04 comes with TeXLive 2009).

I would like to use something that looks like the classical apalike style i.e. citations are ordered by a key in the form [AuthorYear] and they appear like that in the text.

I'm a bit lost within biblatex options. Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance.

P.S.: I know about the biblatex-apa package but it require biblatex 1.4 & biber.

[duboismathieu]

Maybe I can be a bit more specific:
How can you put a key (in the form [AuthorYear]) in front of bibliographic entries?

[localghost]

[…] I know about the biblatex-apa package but it require biblatex 1.4 & biber.

You can always create a TeX directory tree in your »home« folder (~/texmf) and put current versions of needed packages in. You only have to note that is has to follow the TeX Directory Structure (TDS) standard. And Biber can be put into ~/bin.


Thorsten

[duboismathieu]

Hi,

Thanks for your answer (I was about to do it).

After some reading biblatex-apa is not what I want.

I would like to have key in the bibliography for easier navigation.
For instance:

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[Einstein1905] Einstein, A. "Ist die Trägheit eines Körpers von seinem Energieinhalt abhängig?", Annalen der Physik, 1905
[Newton1687] Newton, I. "Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica", 

I think it's simply a matter of options for biblatex (but the manual is very dense and it's hard to figure out what every command does). It's pretty close to the numeric style.

Any idea?
Mathieu