Biblatex provides several standard citations styles, if no citation style is set LaTeX uses the one that matches the bibliography style. Below you can see an example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[
backend=biber,
style=alphabetic,
citestyle=authoryear
]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{sample.bib} %Imports bibliography file
\begin{document}
\section{First section}
This document is an example, two items are cited: \textit{The \LaTeX\ Companion} book
is \cite{latexcompanion}, and Einstein's journal paper is \cite{einstein}.
\medskip
\printbibliography
\end{document}
The parameter citestyle=authoryear
passed to the command that imports biblatex is the one that sets the citation style, in this case authoryear. The standard citation styles are:
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
Citation style | biblatex stylename
|
---|---|
ACS | chem-acs
|
AIP | phys (*)
|
Nature | nature
|
Science | science
|
IEEE | ieee
|
Chicago | chicago-authordate
|
MLA | mla
|
APA | apa
|
(*) this is a new style, see http://ctan.org/pkg/biblatex-phys
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