Suppress default bibliography when using BibLaTeX and \printbibliography (Academic CV)

[fuhrmanator]

I'm trying to do an Academic CV, where it's necessary to print types (categories) of articles. To do this, I'm using BibLaTeX, \printbibliography, e.g.,

## Journal articles (peer reviewed)
\printbibliography[heading=none, type=article]

## Conference papers (peer reviewed)
\printbibliography[heading=none, type=inproceedings]

The problem is, I still get a References section at the end of my document (I guess it's by default).

I've tried suppress-bibliography: true in the metadata, but it doesn't appear to change anything. Perhaps because I'm using biblatex rather than citeproc?

How can I suppress that last part?

[cderv]

How are you setting the \printbibliography currently ?

Unfortunately, it does not seem that Pandoc's template allows to pass option to \printbibliography easily - this would be a feature request to do in Pandoc IMO. Only biblio-title can be changed
https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/blob/eb1826740711319eccade8a634c03d747f461930/data/templates/default.latex#L529
This is the way to specific the title for the Reference section I believe.

Our partial mechanism allows you to tweak the default Pandoc template though, among them biblio.tex
https://quarto.org/docs/journals/templates.html#latex-partials

This partials creates the bibliography, and you can tweak the call to \printbibliography there. You can use template with a document (https://quarto.org/docs/journals/templates.html#template-partials) or through an extensions for your Academic CV (https://quarto.org/docs/extensions/formats.html). See our template repo for custom LaTeX format (https://github.com/quarto-journals/article-format-template), to help create a format.

suppress-bibliography is I believe only working when you use pandoc's own citation engine with CSL (https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/footnotes-and-citations.html#bibliography-generation) and not natbib or bibtex.
When using Pandoc's citeproc, reference-section-title is the way to change the title.

The problem is, I still get a References section at the end of my document (I guess it's by default).

Do check that you don't have a # References at the end of your qmd document. Some examples do have it as it is useful with default Pandoc's citeproc, but not with other citation engine for LaTeX.

Hope it helps

[fuhrmanator]

Thanks for all those useful pointers. Here's a follow-up:

quarto-cli/src/resources/formats/pdf/pandoc/biblio.tex

Line 28 in 86f703c

\printbibliography$if(biblio-title)$[title=$biblio-title$]$endif$

is why the default References is printing. The other parts (see my question above) are just hard-coded latex \printbibliography inside the markdown. Since I have indeed activated biblatex, I would have to change that partial to prevent that default. It's good to know how to do it and I think it would be reasonable to do that.

In the short term, I simply turned off all the metadata flags for biblatex, and put everything in my own preamble.tex and use include-in-header: preamble.tex. It's a big short-term hack. Actually, I'm also using some highlighting of names in the bibliography that required further hacking. I could make it all work with the partials mechanism of Quarto, but I don't have time for it now.

Perhaps a flag like suppress-biblatex-bibliography to apply to the Quarto biblio.tex partial could be useful.

[cderv]

Since I have indeed activated biblatex, I would have to change that partial to prevent that default.

Changing biblio-title is not enough I supposed ? Just curious as I don't know as much about biblatex.

Perhaps a flag like suppress-biblatex-bibliography to apply to the Quarto biblio.tex partial could be useful.

I am not sure to follow. What would that do exactly ? If you want to remove the all biblio.tex content, you can pass an empty file as partial

format:
  pdf:
    template-partials:
      - biblio.tex # empty file

In the short term, I simply turned off all the metadata flags for biblatex,

What are the flags turned off ? biblatex: false ?

And thanks for sharing the article, always cool to learn new things

[mcanouil]

Probably of interest because a related question was raised about using biblatex-chicago, see #2117.

[fuhrmanator]

Changing biblio-title is not enough I supposed ? Just curious as I don't know as much about biblatex.

Not if you want to have titles for each section of an academic CV (Journal articles, Conference papers, etc. -- again see the sample markdown of my question). As far as I understand it, biblio-title would only change the title of one. Or am I misunderstanding how it can be used?

If you want to remove the all biblio.tex content, you can pass an empty file as partial

True, but it's many steps (creating the blank file, supplying the metadata). But maintaining an option is also lots of work, so maybe the best compromise is to document how to achieve it.

What are the flags turned off ? biblatex: false ?

No, I simply meant I didn't turn anything on (there is absolutely no metadata specified relating to citations, not even specifying the .bib file). Everything is done in the preamble, as in pure LaTeX (bypassing Quarto's support for it). Since the biblio.tex partial has logic to look for that variable in metadata, not defining the variable serves the purpose of not executing the default \printbibliography.

[cderv]

Thanks a lot for your addition on all this. that is helping me to understand.

What I get from this: We need to offer a CV template that covers also this usage of a reference by section.
CV template is something already on backlog but not planned yet (#705)

I believe a specific CV format would be the best to support this usage.

Thanks again for your feedback !