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crossref configuration

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retorquere commented

Where are the crossref inheritance rules specified in biber? I thought that they were specified in biber-tool.conf in <inherit> rules, but this MWE inherits from book for incollection, and I can't find that rule:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{apacite}
\bibliographystyle{apacite}
\usepackage{url}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@incollection{El-HusseiniToeplerSalamon:2004-incollection,
	author = {Hashem El-Husseini and Stefan Toepler and Lester M. Salamon},
	booktitle = {Global Civil Society: Dimensions of the Nonprofit Sector},
	chapter = {12},
	crossref = {SalamonSokolowski:2004},
	pages = {227--32},
	title = {Lebanon}}

@book{SalamonSokolowski:2004,
	address = {Bloomfield, CT},
	editor = {Lester M. Salamon and S. Wojciech Sokolowski},
	publisher = {Kumarian Press},
	title = {Global Civil Society: Dimensions of the Nonprofit Sector111},
	volume = {2},
	year = {2004}}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{document}
\nocite{*}
\bibliography{\jobname.bib}
\end{document}
plk commented

biber-tool.conf only controls the defaults for biber in tool mode. In normal use, the defaults are passed in the .bcf file and that is determined by the defaults in biblatex. However, in your MWE, you aren't using biblatex (and therefore biber) at all and so I don't understand ...

retorquere commented

Oops 😊

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}

\usepackage[style=apa, backend=biber]{biblatex}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{my-collection.bib}
@incollection{El-HusseiniToeplerSalamon:2004-incollection,
	author = {Hashem El-Husseini and Stefan Toepler and Lester M. Salamon},
	booktitle = {Global Civil Society: Dimensions of the Nonprofit Sector},
	chapter = {12},
	crossref = {SalamonSokolowski:2004},
	pages = {227--32},
	title = {Lebanon}}

@book{SalamonSokolowski:2004,
	address = {Bloomfield, CT},
	editor = {Lester M. Salamon and S. Wojciech Sokolowski},
	publisher = {Kumarian Press},
	title = {Global Civil Society: Dimensions of the Nonprofit Sector111},
	volume = {2},
	year = {2004}}
\end{filecontents*}

\addbibresource{my-collection.bib}

\begin{document}

\cite{El-HusseiniToeplerSalamon:2004-incollection}
\cite{SalamonSokolowski:2004}

\printbibliography

\end{document}
retorquere commented

but does that mean there are no general inheritance rules? I'm sorry, I'm not intimately familiar with how biber works... so should I look in the sources of biblatex to see which .bcf file is used to determine inheritance?

plk commented

APA style maps incollection to inbook (see APA style docs) and biblatex has a default inheritance of book->inbook (see Appendix B of the biblatex manual for the default inheritance rules)

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