biblatex style options

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

I asked the Springer people whether a biblatex style corresponding to 
their spbasic.bst exists, but the answer was not very helpful ('it 
doesn't matter ...).

What I like to know is, how to set the options of biblatex in order to 
get the spbasic output. Or could I use the bibtex export of the 
bibliography and include it in the pdf file? Not very elegant...

I remember, for bibtex exists a link which shows the various outputs of 
the bibliography styles+options (and of the text citations) together 
with the way to proceed to get them. Would be good to have something 
similar for biblatex.

Specifically, I would like to have in the bibliography Authorname, only 
first character of forename without point (e.g. Mayer P). As it is now 
the forenames are either before or after the name, abbreviated or in 
full. How to restrict it to 3 names was explained already by Herbert Voss.

Any hints?
Wolfgang



Am 08.07.21 um 14:42 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann:
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> Am 08.07.21 um 14:22 schrieb Herbert Voss:
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>> Am 08.07.21 um 13:47 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann:
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>>> What would be recommended to get familiar with the handling of the 
>>> biblatex references? I used to use spbasic.bst from Springer 
>>> Publisher modified slightly to show maximally 3 authors only.
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>> that is an authoryear style
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>>> Is this style available for biblatex/biber?
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>> add the optional arguments
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>> style=authoryear,maxnames=3,minnames=1
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>> to biblatex
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>> Herbert
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> Thanks again, Herbert.
> I don't want to bother you and others too much,
> but there are more details, e.g.
> the name should be Name, P (P for prename, only first character shown 
> without point
> At the moment it is e.g. prename name or name prename or name P etc
> Thats the reason I would like a ref for biblatex.
> 
> The biblatex Programmable Bibliographies by Philip Kime, Moritz 
> Wemheuer, Philipp Lehman
> but its a bit overkill.
> 
> Wolfgang
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