Biblatex citation styles

Biblatex provides numerous citation styles but if no citation style is set L a T e X uses the one that matches the bibliography style. Here is a minimal example showing use of the biblatex parameter style=alphabetic to set the citation style to alphabetic .

\documentclassarticle> \usepackage[ backend=biber, style=alphabetic, ]biblatex> \titleA bibLaTeX example> \addbibresourcesample.bib> %Imports bibliography file \begindocument> \sectionFirst section> Items that are cited: \textitThe \LaTeX\ Companion> book \citelatexcompanion> together with Einstein's journal paper \citeeinstein> and Dirac's book \citedirac>---which are physics-related items. Next, citing two of Knuth's books: \textitFundamental Algorithms> \citeknuth-fa> and \textitThe Art of Computer Programming> \citeknuth-acp>. \medskip \printbibliography \enddocument> 

This example produces the following output:

Citation styles

Standard citation styles include:

• numeric Implements a numeric citation scheme intended for in-text citations. Should be employed in conjunction with the numeric bibliography style.

• numeric-comp Compact variant of the numeric mode. Citations like [1, 2, 3] are replaced by [1-3].

• numeric-verb Verbose variant of the numeric style. Instead of [2, 5, 7] will print [2];[5];[7].

• alphabetic Alphabetic citation scheme similar to the standard alpha in style bibtex. To be used in conjunction with the alphabetic bibliography style.

• alphabetic-verb Verbose version of the alphabetic style. Instead of [Doe98, Doe95, Farn2004] will print [Doe98];[Doe95];[Farn2004].

• authoryear Implements the author-year citation scheme. To be used in conjunction with the author-year bibliography style.

• authoryear-comp Compact variant of the authoryear style. Prints the author only once if subsequent references passed to a single citation command share the same author. Prints Doe 1992, 1995 instead of Doe 1992, Doe 1995.

• authoryear-ibid A variant of the authoryear intended for footnote citations. Replaces repeated citations by the abbreviation ibidem.

• authoryear-icomp A style combining the features of authoryear-comp and authoryear-ibid

• authortitle Implements the author-title scheme. Intended for citations given in footnotes.

• authortitle-comp Compact variant of authortitle . Instead of Doe, First title; Doe, Second title this will print Doe, First title, Second title.

• authortitle-ibid A variant of the authortitle intended for footnote citations. Replaces repeated citations by the abbreviation ibidem.

• authortitle-icomp A style combining authortitle-comp and authortitle-ibid .

• authortitle-terse Variant of authoritle that only prints the title if the bibliography contains more than one work of the respective author/editor.

• authortitle-tcomp Style combining authortitle-terse and authortitle-comp .

• authortitle-ticomp Style combining authortitle-icomp and authortitle-terse .

• verbose Citation style that prints a full citation when the entry is cited for the first time and a short version afterwards.

• reading Citation style that goes with the bibliography style by the same name. Loads the authortitle style.

There are other non-standard citation styles popular in different journals and thesis

• In Sciences:
  • American Chemical Society (ACS) style
  • American Institute of Physics (AIP) style
  • American Mathematical Society (AMS) style
  • Vancouver system
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) style
  • Nature style
  • Science style
  • Chicago Style
  • Harvard referencing style
  • MLA style
  • American Psychological Association (APA) style

  Citation style	biblatex stylename
  ACS	chem-acs
  AIP	phys (*)
  Nature	nature
  Science	science
  IEEE	ieee
  Chicago	chicago-authordate
  MLA	mla
  APA	apa

  Further reading

  For more information see

  • Bibliography management in LaTeX
  • Biblatex bibliography styles
  • Biblatex package documentation
  • Table of contents
  • Management in a large project