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I want My journal wants author names to be abbreviated as "Lastname, FS" in the bibliography, but haven't found a way to do this after some excessive searching. Does anyone know if this is possible?

Here is MWE that shows how I don't want it to be

documentclassarticle
usepackage[backend=biber,giveninits=true]biblatex
DeclareNameAliasauthorlast-first
addbibresourcejobname.bib
usepackagefilecontents
beginfilecontentsjobname.bib
@bookkey,
 author = Lastname, First Second,
 year = 2001,
 title = Title,
 publisher = Publisher,

endfilecontents

begindocument
citekey
printbibliography
enddocument

Result:

biblatex biber

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edited Mar 28 at 8:13

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  Since the question mentions a journal I should warn that I am not aware of a lot for journals that can accept biblatex submissions. biblatex imposes quite a different workflow on publishers than standard BibTeX or thebibliography, plus publishers are known to prefer stable (read: older) systems, where incompatibilities with modern biblatex could arise. Many journals have LaTeX templates and those almost never feature biblatex and usually insist on particular .bst styles or thebibliography. See also tex.stackexchange.com/q/12175/35864
  
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6

I want My journal wants author names to be abbreviated as "Lastname, FS" in the bibliography, but haven't found a way to do this after some excessive searching. Does anyone know if this is possible?

Here is MWE that shows how I don't want it to be

documentclassarticle
usepackage[backend=biber,giveninits=true]biblatex
DeclareNameAliasauthorlast-first
addbibresourcejobname.bib
usepackagefilecontents
beginfilecontentsjobname.bib
@bookkey,
 author = Lastname, First Second,
 year = 2001,
 title = Title,
 publisher = Publisher,

endfilecontents

begindocument
citekey
printbibliography
enddocument

Result:

biblatex biber

share|improve this question

edited Mar 28 at 8:13

Filip S.

asked Mar 28 at 8:00

Filip S.Filip S.

22011 silver badge88 bronze badges

• 
  
  
  

  
  2
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Since the question mentions a journal I should warn that I am not aware of a lot for journals that can accept biblatex submissions. biblatex imposes quite a different workflow on publishers than standard BibTeX or thebibliography, plus publishers are known to prefer stable (read: older) systems, where incompatibilities with modern biblatex could arise. Many journals have LaTeX templates and those almost never feature biblatex and usually insist on particular .bst styles or thebibliography. See also tex.stackexchange.com/q/12175/35864
  
  – moewe
  Mar 28 at 8:52
  
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment
 | 

I want My journal wants author names to be abbreviated as "Lastname, FS" in the bibliography, but haven't found a way to do this after some excessive searching. Does anyone know if this is possible?

Here is MWE that shows how I don't want it to be

documentclassarticle
usepackage[backend=biber,giveninits=true]biblatex
DeclareNameAliasauthorlast-first
addbibresourcejobname.bib
usepackagefilecontents
beginfilecontentsjobname.bib
@bookkey,
 author = Lastname, First Second,
 year = 2001,
 title = Title,
 publisher = Publisher,

endfilecontents

begindocument
citekey
printbibliography
enddocument

Result:

biblatex biber

share|improve this question

edited Mar 28 at 8:13

Filip S.

asked Mar 28 at 8:00

Filip S.Filip S.

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documentclassarticle
usepackage[backend=biber,giveninits=true]biblatex
DeclareNameAliasauthorlast-first
addbibresourcejobname.bib
usepackagefilecontents
beginfilecontentsjobname.bib
@bookkey,
 author = Lastname, First Second,
 year = 2001,
 title = Title,
 publisher = Publisher,

endfilecontents

begindocument
citekey
printbibliography
enddocument

share|improve this question

edited Mar 28 at 8:13

Filip S.

asked Mar 28 at 8:00

Filip S.Filip S.

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The option terseinits does that for you. terseinits is a meta-option that essentially executes the following definitions

renewrobustcmd*bibinitperiod
renewrobustcmd*bibinitdelim
renewrobustcmd*bibinithyphendelim

and sets the test ifterseinits (that test is not used by a lot of styles, apparently, so it hardly matters).

If you want a more fine-grained control, you can redefine these macros yourself. They do pretty much what their names suggest: bibinitperiod is the punctuation after a name initial, bibinitdelim the space between two name initials and bibinithyphendelim replaces the two between hyphenated name parts such as Jean-Jacques.

documentclassarticle

usepackage[backend=biber, giveninits=true, terseinits=true]biblatex
DeclareNameAliasauthorfamily-given

usepackagefilecontents
beginfilecontentsjobname.bib
@bookkey,
 author = Lastname, First Second,
 year = 2001,
 title = Title,
 publisher = Publisher,

endfilecontents
addbibresourcejobname.bib

begindocument
citekey
printbibliography
enddocument

Note that I changed the deprecated last-first to the new family-given, since you are already using the new name giveninits (cf. Biblatex 3.3 name formatting).

If you are using authoryear, you may want to redefine sortname and not only author:

DeclareNameAliasauthorfamily-given

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edited Mar 28 at 9:13

answered Mar 28 at 8:36

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  The last period after "FS" is nametitledelim, i.e. the separator between the name and the title, and not a dot for the initials. If it should go as well, you may want to add DeclareDelimFormat[bib]nametitledelimaddspace
  
  – moewe
  Mar 28 at 8:50
  
  

  
  
  
  


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  That's perfect, thanks! I use style=authoryear, so the last period after "FS" doesn't show up, but it's nice to know anyway.
  
  – Filip S.
  Mar 28 at 9:05
  
  

  
  
  
  

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6

The option terseinits does that for you. terseinits is a meta-option that essentially executes the following definitions

renewrobustcmd*bibinitperiod
renewrobustcmd*bibinitdelim
renewrobustcmd*bibinithyphendelim

and sets the test ifterseinits (that test is not used by a lot of styles, apparently, so it hardly matters).

If you want a more fine-grained control, you can redefine these macros yourself. They do pretty much what their names suggest: bibinitperiod is the punctuation after a name initial, bibinitdelim the space between two name initials and bibinithyphendelim replaces the two between hyphenated name parts such as Jean-Jacques.

documentclassarticle

usepackage[backend=biber, giveninits=true, terseinits=true]biblatex
DeclareNameAliasauthorfamily-given

usepackagefilecontents
beginfilecontentsjobname.bib
@bookkey,
 author = Lastname, First Second,
 year = 2001,
 title = Title,
 publisher = Publisher,

endfilecontents
addbibresourcejobname.bib

begindocument
citekey
printbibliography
enddocument

Note that I changed the deprecated last-first to the new family-given, since you are already using the new name giveninits (cf. Biblatex 3.3 name formatting).

If you are using authoryear, you may want to redefine sortname and not only author:

DeclareNameAliasauthorfamily-given

share|improve this answer

edited Mar 28 at 9:13

answered Mar 28 at 8:36

moewemoewe

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• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  The last period after "FS" is nametitledelim, i.e. the separator between the name and the title, and not a dot for the initials. If it should go as well, you may want to add DeclareDelimFormat[bib]nametitledelimaddspace
  
  – moewe
  Mar 28 at 8:50
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  That's perfect, thanks! I use style=authoryear, so the last period after "FS" doesn't show up, but it's nice to know anyway.
  
  – Filip S.
  Mar 28 at 9:05
  
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment
 | 

6

The option terseinits does that for you. terseinits is a meta-option that essentially executes the following definitions

renewrobustcmd*bibinitperiod
renewrobustcmd*bibinitdelim
renewrobustcmd*bibinithyphendelim

and sets the test ifterseinits (that test is not used by a lot of styles, apparently, so it hardly matters).

If you want a more fine-grained control, you can redefine these macros yourself. They do pretty much what their names suggest: bibinitperiod is the punctuation after a name initial, bibinitdelim the space between two name initials and bibinithyphendelim replaces the two between hyphenated name parts such as Jean-Jacques.

documentclassarticle

usepackage[backend=biber, giveninits=true, terseinits=true]biblatex
DeclareNameAliasauthorfamily-given

usepackagefilecontents
beginfilecontentsjobname.bib
@bookkey,
 author = Lastname, First Second,
 year = 2001,
 title = Title,
 publisher = Publisher,

endfilecontents
addbibresourcejobname.bib

begindocument
citekey
printbibliography
enddocument

Note that I changed the deprecated last-first to the new family-given, since you are already using the new name giveninits (cf. Biblatex 3.3 name formatting).

If you are using authoryear, you may want to redefine sortname and not only author:

DeclareNameAliasauthorfamily-given

share|improve this answer

edited Mar 28 at 9:13

answered Mar 28 at 8:36

moewemoewe

105k1212 gold badges132132 silver badges399399 bronze badges

• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  The last period after "FS" is nametitledelim, i.e. the separator between the name and the title, and not a dot for the initials. If it should go as well, you may want to add DeclareDelimFormat[bib]nametitledelimaddspace
  
  – moewe
  Mar 28 at 8:50
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  That's perfect, thanks! I use style=authoryear, so the last period after "FS" doesn't show up, but it's nice to know anyway.
  
  – Filip S.
  Mar 28 at 9:05
  
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment
 | 

The option terseinits does that for you. terseinits is a meta-option that essentially executes the following definitions

renewrobustcmd*bibinitperiod
renewrobustcmd*bibinitdelim
renewrobustcmd*bibinithyphendelim

and sets the test ifterseinits (that test is not used by a lot of styles, apparently, so it hardly matters).

If you want a more fine-grained control, you can redefine these macros yourself. They do pretty much what their names suggest: bibinitperiod is the punctuation after a name initial, bibinitdelim the space between two name initials and bibinithyphendelim replaces the two between hyphenated name parts such as Jean-Jacques.

documentclassarticle

usepackage[backend=biber, giveninits=true, terseinits=true]biblatex
DeclareNameAliasauthorfamily-given

usepackagefilecontents
beginfilecontentsjobname.bib
@bookkey,
 author = Lastname, First Second,
 year = 2001,
 title = Title,
 publisher = Publisher,

endfilecontents
addbibresourcejobname.bib

begindocument
citekey
printbibliography
enddocument

Note that I changed the deprecated last-first to the new family-given, since you are already using the new name giveninits (cf. Biblatex 3.3 name formatting).

If you are using authoryear, you may want to redefine sortname and not only author:

DeclareNameAliasauthorfamily-given

share|improve this answer

edited Mar 28 at 9:13

answered Mar 28 at 8:36

moewemoewe

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renewrobustcmd*bibinitperiod
renewrobustcmd*bibinitdelim
renewrobustcmd*bibinithyphendelim

documentclassarticle

usepackage[backend=biber, giveninits=true, terseinits=true]biblatex
DeclareNameAliasauthorfamily-given

usepackagefilecontents
beginfilecontentsjobname.bib
@bookkey,
 author = Lastname, First Second,
 year = 2001,
 title = Title,
 publisher = Publisher,

endfilecontents
addbibresourcejobname.bib

begindocument
citekey
printbibliography
enddocument

DeclareNameAliasauthorfamily-given

share|improve this answer

edited Mar 28 at 9:13

answered Mar 28 at 8:36

moewemoewe

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answered Mar 28 at 8:36

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