BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Change Citation Label Style

[enakcm]

Hi!

I am using BibTex.
I am looking for an easy way to make the citation labels in my text look like this:

[ABC12]

where ABC are the first 3 letters of the author's name and 12 is the year of publishing (like the alpha-style)

I need the "ABC" to be upper-case, even if there is only one author. Is there an easy way to achieve this?

Thanks for your help.

[cgnieder]

Hi enakcm,

Welcome to the LaTeX community!

I rarely use the classic BiBTeX so I can't help there. It is doable with biblatex by redefining the labelalpha template, though:

Code: Select all

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[backend=biber,style=alphabetic]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\DeclareLabelalphaTemplate{
  \labelelement{
    \field[uppercase,final]{shorthand}
    \field[uppercase]{label}
    \field[uppercase,strwidth=3,strside=left,ifnames=1]{labelname}
    \field[uppercase,strwidth=1,strside=left]{labelname}
  }
  \labelelement{
    \field[strwidth=2,strside=right]{year}
  }
}

\begin{document}

Text \cite{knuth:ct:a,knuth:ct:b,knuth:ct:c,companion}

\printbibliography

\end{document}

alphabetic.png (46.58 KiB) Viewed 4401 times

Regards