How to print only year (no day/month) with Biblatex
In analogy to Disable month in biblatex bibliography? you can just disable the month
and day
fields with the commands
\AtEveryBibitem{\clearfield{month}}
\AtEveryBibitem{\clearfield{day}}
For a short moment there came to my mind that there could be a caveat with the urldate
field that declares when a URL has been checked, but biblatex
even takes care of this. The urldate
is still printed as full date. Compare the MWE and its output below:
\begin{filecontents}{test.bib}
@BOOK{test,
author= {A. Author},
title = {A Title for a Book},
date = {2012-10-08}
},
@ONLINE{test2,
author = {A. Author},
title = {Some title},
url = {http://example.com},
urldate = {2013-01-08}
}
\end{filecontents}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\addbibresource{test.bib}
\AtEveryBibitem{\clearfield{month}}
\AtEveryBibitem{\clearfield{day}}
\begin{document}
\nocite{*}
\printbibliography
\end{document}
Is this what you intend to do? If not, please provide a MWE to work with.
The question and answer @benedikt-bauer linked to has since been updated with a new answer which contains a nicer solution:
https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/346281/181287
The
biblatex
package optiondate=year
should also work.One may also need
labeldate=year
as well; oralldates=year
and then something likeurldate=short
Which should be valid for biblatex version 2.8 (2013) and higher.
Updates: For clarity, here are the relevant (shortened) parts of the manual:
date=year,short,long,terse,comp,ymd,iso
default:comp
This option controls the basic format of printed date specifications.
<datetype>date=year,short,long,terse,comp,ymd,iso
default:comp
Similar to thedateoption but controls the format of the<datetype>date
field in the datamodel.
alldates=year,short,long,terse,comp,iso
Sets the option for all dates in the datamodel to the same value. The date fields in the default data model aredate
,origdate
,eventdate
andurldate
.
Full manual with more details and explanations of the possible options can be found here: http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex/doc/biblatex.pdf