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Hey; ich habe mal ne #texlatex Frage:

ich möchte eine Webseite zitieren und nutze dafür #biblatex und den Eintrag
```
@misc{wp,
title = {Wikipedia},
url = {https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo},
urldate = {2025-01-01T13:37:42},
author = {Franz, Ferdinand},
year = {2026},
note = {Notiz}
}
```

Ich habe als urldate auch die Zeit mit angegeben. Es wird mir aber im Literaturverzeichnis nur "Abgerufen am 1.1.2025" ausgegeben.
Wie kann ich die Felder urlhour und urlminute noch mit in die Ausgabe des Verzeichnises aufnehmen?

Muss ich dafür meinen kompletten Stil neu definieren?

Another milestone reached!
We crossed the 4500 stargazers on #github

And we are close to another milestone, the 6.0-beta. We worked hard and worked on improvements and bug fixes across JabRef. For example, we revamped the entry editor to make it easier to add/remove fields.

Curious? Try out the latest dev version and see for yourself!
https://builds.jabref.org/main/

#javafx #opensource #jabref #bibtex #biblatex #texlatex #java #academia #bibliography

Bibliography interoperability is mostly a mirage.
There is no shared canonical model for bibliographic data: BibTeX, CSL-JSON, CFF, RIS, and others encode overlapping but incompatible views of the same reality.
Every converter is just a heuristic translator. We’ve optimized tools, not the model itself. Every ecosystem re-implements the same edge cases, calls it innovation, and ships the same mistakes again.

#citations #bibtex #biblatex #csl #zotero #citeproc #pandoc

🌞 JabRef 6.0 Alpha 6 released! 🌞

We are thrilled to announce a new alpha version! The version is formally an alpha but stable enough for usage.

Highlights:

- Revamped notifications and pop-up
- Improved generation and handling of inserted citations in LibreOffice
- Improved inspections for #biblatex and #bibtex

https://blog.jabref.org/2026/05/14/JabRef6-0-alpha6/

#javafx #bibliography #academia #citations #TexLatex #academic #opensource #research

@foojay @frankdelporte

@ros Nice write-up. #JabRef supports both #bibtex and #biblatex

Just ported 5 of the #biblatex compound numeric styles. I've not tested them myself, and I'm pretty far from a #chemist.

Would be cool if people who actually use these sorts of styles could test and report.

https://github.com/citum/citum-core/commit/93c4d5e684948c610f847a68b38e2c9faae8094c

Another new feature I've just added to #citum is compound citations that I guess are common in chemistry.

https://docs.citum.org/examples.html#compound-numeric-sets

This is feature requested for CSL awhile back that we had no idea how to implement, and in retrospect would have been impossible given the dependence on processor behavior.

https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/issues/437

Looking for a clean solution, this is another case where I drew inspiration from #biblatex.

Compare BibTeX and BibLaTeX for LaTeX bibliography management, covering architecture, features, performance, and best practices for modern and legacy workflows.

#BibTeX #BibLaTeX #Biber #LaTeX #bibliography management

https://dasroot.net/posts/2026/02/latex-bibliography-bibtex-vs-biblatex-comparison/

Happy Holidays!

Here is a late present for you: We just released Version 6.0.alpha4.
This release contains a couple of UX improvements, a handful of new features, and the usual bug fixes.
A brand new feature is now the support for date groups based on any date field. Also supports year, timestamp fields, etc.

For more info, check out our blog post and the changelog!

https://blog.jabref.org/2025/12/26/JabRef6-0-alpha4/

#javafx #java #academia #opensource #bibliography #biblatex #bibtex #texlaTeX
@foojay @frankdelporte

Beginning to lose my mind again about #TeXLaTeX #BibLaTeX #BibTeX #Zotero fuckery. 😩

Zotero puts the "Extra" field from the GUI into the `annotation` field. This is happily ignored by biblatex. The quest begins, how to convince biblatex to *please* display my note on this preprint somewhere. All my attempts involving AtEveryBibItem or DeclareSourceMap pretty much in vain. LaTeX is so incredibly brilliant, but simple stuff like this can really kill you. Feels like :nixos: #NixOS 😅

#PhDLife

For some reason it is ridiculously hard to just ignore any first or given names with #BibLaTeX. Like any sane person, I'd like to only see surnames in the citations, authoryear style. BibLaTeX really doesn't want you to.

#TeXLaTeX

Did you know the #SILE #digitalTypesetting system supports a fairly decent subset of #BibTeX / #BibLaTeX and Citation Style Language for bibliographies? True, it's a work in progress, but with some fixes just proposed upstream, it gets better at the task.

A question to the academic #HiveMind:

We are currently developing an extension to #ConfTool that will allow for the export of conference programmes as #BibTeX / #BibLaTeX . What would be your entry type of choice for otherwise unpublished conference presentations, posters etc.?

If you opt for “something else“, please provide your preference in a reply. Any comments are more than welcome.

#DigitalHumanities #DH #FieldSurveys

@NFDI4Memory @nfdi4objects @nfdi4culture @Textplus

@ThierryStoehr @zotero @swheritage Thanks! #jabRef supports biblatex software and both importing and exporting cff format as well.
#biblatex

@roteiro JabRef Als Referenzmanager und damit guten Support für #bibtex und #biblatex ... ;)

Huh, I must've missed the announcement.

@swheritage is now providing citation metadata to download as #BibTeX and use via #BibLaTeX (biblatex-software) for archived software with a CITATION.cff file or codemeta.json in the root directory! 🎉

Very cool!

#CitationFileFormat #SoftwareHeritage #ResearchSoftware #SoftwareCitation

Updating to remain the same. (I tried downgrading to remain the same, too.)

#Zotero #BibLaTex

I tried bibiman today. It really is a wonderful TUI for searching your bib-files!
https://codeberg.org/lukeflo/bibiman

#terminal #tui #rust #biblatex #bibliography

[4 years and a half] This November 26th, 2024 means 4,5 year old release by @swheritage of "biblatex-software package, that adds support for properly managing software entries in bibliographies for #BibLaTeX users".
Happy 54 month anniversary for making good software and code source quotations
#bibliography
Article, "Citing software with style", 2020-05-26, https://www.softwareheritage.org/2020/05/26/citing-software-with-style/
(and source code, like BibLaTeX references, is text #format)

[Et 4 ans et demi !] Ce 26 novembre 2024 marque les 4,5 ans (déjà !) depuis la publication par @swheritage de l'extension de #BibLaTeX pour citer les références d'un logiciel (comme tout autre document : livre, article, film,...).
Y compris, et notamment, pour citer le code source dudit logiciel (au #format texte).
Donc : joyeux 54 mois (autre #format de décompte) :-)... et bonnes citations ! #bibliographie
https://www.softwareheritage.org/2020/05/26/citing-software-with-style/

It was so hard to get it right that I am gonna BACKUP this bloody style.

Still: believe it or not, it's simpler to get the bibliography “right” with biblatex...

Please someone give me a converter for #biblatex to #CSL.

#bibliography

Hace años, abandoné Microsoft Word y me pasé a LibreOffice Writer. Aquí, reflexiono sobre mi experiencia de migración y cómo superé los obstáculos que surgieron. También repaso brevemente el origen de la "guerra de software de oficina" y sus consecuencias en la compatibilidad entre formatos de archivos de texto avanzado. #word #writer #microsoft #libreoffice #odt #docx #odb #biblatex
https://curriculum-261a13.gitlab.io/blog/2024/10/03/de-word-a-writer-la-batalla-del-software-de-oficina/

(article scheme:r5rs
   (title "The Revised5 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme")
   (author "Richard Kelsey, William D. Clinger, Jonathan Rees")
   (journal "Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation")
   (volume "11")
   (number "1")
   (month "Sep")
   (year "1998")
   (url "http://kaolin.unice.fr/Bigloo/doc/r5rs.html"))

Merci @jabref pour la précision. Et @dbenoist très content que cela puisse aider.
Je me permets de préciser que le diable peut se cacher dans les détails : #JabRef prend en charge, #zotero aussi. Mais les champs souhaités pour décrire un jeu video sont-ils ceux de #BibLaTeX @swheritage ? On peut avec JabRef &Zotero définir ses champs +définir aussi le style voulu pour la référence. Enfin, d'après doc de JabRef &Zotero, une base données SQL est utilisable. BibLaTeX est Tbien, mais #format à voir.

"Le Dragon de Brume" is glad to announce the Summer 2024 edition of its PDF booklet "A bibliography of Tolkien studies in French & English".

https://sites.google.com/site/dragonbrumeux/bibliography

As for our previous volumes, all source files are available in #djot and (a subset of) #biblatex – using the (currently in-development) bibliography and citation modules for the #sile typesetting system.

#Tolkien #TolkienStudies #tolkiendil