BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Square brackets around the year in secondary citations

[ostwaertstramper]

Hi!

I want to cite Gilovich (1985), cited in Ayton (2004). I use the following code:
\citet[cited in \cite{Ayton2004}]{Gilovich1985}

It almost works. I get the following:

Gilovich et al. (1985, cited in Ayton and Fischer (2004))

Now I want the brackets around 2004 to be square brackets. I'd appreciate any help. Thanks in advance!

[Johannes_B]

Hi and welcome,

i have no idea how to do that, neither with the new and modern biblatex, nor with the older (and not recommended anymore) packages for bibtex.

Please prepare a minimal working example, that shows how you are citing. Depending on how often that happens, you will get better results by doing it manually.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Welcome to the forum!

I guess it's pretty rare, so you could do it manually.

However, you could find a better approach then "nesting".

In any case, I would avoid the inconsistency of having parentheses and square brackets for years for citations. I would use the same style. Book is book, citation is citation, a citation of another book is a citation as well.

Stefan