BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ biblatex | Text Citation Output

[niteshs]

Hi,

I am getting "author1, author2 (key)" as the output of the \textcite command when using the biblatex package with the following options:

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\usepackage[
  backend=biber,
  bibstyle=thesis,
  sorting=none,
  firstinits=true,
  maxcitenames=2,
  maxbibnames=99
]{biblatex}

I am expecting the output to be "author1 and author2 (key)", which is what I used to get earlier. I don't know what has changed since then. Can someone help me get the output right?

Thanks

(I think I posted this earlier, but the post has inexplicably disappeared!)

[localghost]

[…] (I think I posted this earlier, but the post has inexplicably disappeared!)

You can simply search your posts to find the concerned topic. And if you posted earlier, it has for sure not "inexplicably disappeared".

If you expect answers to your question, you should add useful information and provide a proper minimal example (as always).


Thorsten

[niteshs]

Here is an MWE (I'm afraid it doesn't really give any more information),

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[
backend=biber,
bibstyle=mystyle,
sorting=none,
firstinits=true,
maxcitenames=2,
maxbibnames=99
]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblio.bib}

\begin{document}
This paragraph shows that the output of the textcite command is not what it should
be. For example two author citations appear separated by a comma as shown by
\textcite{lamb_slow_1938}, instead of being separated by `and'. On the other hand
mulitple author citations appear quite right as indicated by \textcite{good_hydrogen_1966}.

\printbibliography
\end{document}

The output looks like this:

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Edit: I just noticed that the .bgl file has some warnings so I have uploaded that, as well as the .bbl file, just in case.

[niteshs]

Is there anywhere else I might be able to find an answer to this problem? Maybe someone could point me to the right direction?

[localghost]

Your last code sample is still not complete because the bibliography database file (*.bib) is missing. So it's not surprising that you have got no answer.

[cgnieder]

Also the style mystyle is unavailable to us. I suspect it is in there where the “and” “disappears” since the code below has it:

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[
backend=biber,
% bibstyle=mystyle,
sorting=none,
firstinits=true,
maxcitenames=2,
maxbibnames=99
]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\begin{document}

This paragraph shows that the output of the textcite command is not what it should
be. For example two author citations appear separated by a comma as shown by
\textcite{baez/article}, instead of being separated by `and'. On the other hand
mulitple author citations appear quite right as indicated by \textcite{companion}.

\printbibliography
\end{document}

Regards

[niteshs]

Haha! I posted all the files except the ones that were actually relevant!

I had figured since the bibstyle= option is for the bibliogrpahy format only (as opposed to the style= option), it should have no effect on the citation format, but perhaps that is not the case? (Actually I just realized- I had tried to upload it but "The extension bbx is not allowed.")

Here is the .bib file but I doubt that is the problem since the .bib file format hasn't changed. My original custom .bbx on the other hand was lost, so it is possible the new one has a problem. I am still not convinced though that the bibstyle is affecting the citation output. Incidentally the bibstyle file is chem-biochem.bbx with only the following additional code (added at the end) as the modification:

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\AtEveryBibitem{%
  \clearfield{day}%
  \clearfield{month}%
  \clearfield{endday}%
  \clearfield{endmonth}%
  \clearfield{note}
}

Hopefully this leads to a solution!

[niteshs]

Problem identified (sort of).

It turns out the bibstyle IS affecting the citation style. Using a different bibstyle (numeric-comp) 'brought back the missing "and" '. In fact I now remember that my earlier custom .bbx was obtained my modifying the 'numeric' bibstyle.

I can now use a different modified bibstyle to fix the problem.
(I guess I should now mark this as solved?)

[niteshs]

While the cause of specific issue of the citation style is identified, I would still appreciate some help:

I want to use the chem-biochem.bbx style for the bibliograhy (with the modification mentioned above), but with the text citation style "author1 and author2" instead of "author1, author2". Can someone help me do that?

I tried setting the options for biblatex as

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citestyle=numeric-comp,
bibstyle=chem-biochem

but that did not help. Maybe the bibstyle somehow overrides the citestyle?

Any suggestions?

Edit: It seems the chem-biochem.cbx style file is simply a lightly modified version of numeric-comp cite style (it calls \RequireCitationStyle{numeric-comp} with the only apparent difference being the parenthesis type and the cite key being 'emphasized'). Yet, when I use the option

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style=chem-biochem

I still get "author1, author2". So I don't understand where this difference in the citation style is coming from! More reason to suspect the bibstyle instead?