chem-biochem options not working

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I would like to use the chem-biochem style for biblatex but have the citation numbers in the text and the bibliography in square brackets. There is the option biblabel=brackets which I understand from the documentation should do this, but it actually doesn't change anything.

Here is my MWE:

 \documentclass{scrartcl}

\usepackage[backend=biber, style=chem-biochem, biblabel=brackets]{biblatex}


\addbibresource{jobnames.bib}

\begin{document}

Blablabla \cite{Labov1972,Chomsky1957}.

\printbibliography

\end{document}

Whereas the bib file contains:

@book{Labov1972,
    Address = {Philadelphia},
    Author = {William Labov},
    Publisher = {University of Pennsylvania Press},
    Title = {Sociolinguistic Patterns},
    Year = {1972}}

@book{Chomsky1957,
    Address = {The Hague},
    Author = {Noam Chomsky},
    Publisher = {Mouton},
    Title = {Syntactic Structures},
    Year = {1957}}

Could anyone get this option working? Thank you!

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 23 '18 at 17:03

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chem-biochem.cbx redefines square brackets to always be round brackets. This disables \mkbibbrackets which is used with biblabel=brackets. To get square brackets back use

\makeatletter
\renewcommand*{\bibleftbracket}{\blx@postpunct[}
\renewcommand*{\bibrightbracket}{\blx@postpunct]\midsentence}
\makeatother

answered Jan 23 '18 at 17:03

moewe

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I guess I can fix that ... – Joseph Wright Jan 23 '18 at 17:34
Is there also a way to change the numbers to be non-italic again? – E. Thienhaus Jan 23 '18 at 18:48
@E.Thienhaus \DeclareFieldFormat{labelnumber}{#1}. – moewe Jan 23 '18 at 20:21
Awesome! The last thing I'm trying to do now it to get control over the indentation of the first line of an entry. I already tried to modify \parindent, but it seems to have no effect on the chem-biochem style... – E. Thienhaus Jan 23 '18 at 20:56
@E.Thienhaus What do you want to do? I think this would warrant a new question. – moewe Jan 23 '18 at 21:01
@E.Thienhaus If this answer answered your question please consider upvoting (by clicking on the arrows next to the score) and/or marking it as the accepted answer (by clicking on the checkmark ✓) – moewe Jan 24 '18 at 22:08

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 24 '18 at 22:19

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The biblatex package splits bibliography and citation style. Here, you only want the Biochemistry bibliography style

\usepackage[bibstyle=chem-biochem,citestyle=numeric,biblabel=brackets]{biblatex}

answered Jan 24 '18 at 22:19

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