Dear Oliver, > I recheked the biblatex manual available via https://www.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex > > Thre on page 7 at the "book" type, it states that one can either use > year or date. Therefore, I vote for keeping "year" as required field > and put "date" as optional field. Thus, regarding year NOT as > deprecated.
You are correct that year is not deprecated in biblatex. But the date field is checked first by biblatex, only when it is missing the year field is used. See the biblatex manual, section 2.3.8: > If there is no date field in an entry, Biblatex will also consider the fields > year and month for backwards compatibility with traditional BibTeX. Thus, I would recommend to use "date" as required field in biblatex mode and "year" as optional field. BTW, I don’t know if the “deprecated fields” tab in biblatex mode is useful, I find it rather confusing. > I, personally, even using biblatex, I always use the > bibtex mode as the UI in the biblatex mode is too cluttered in the > moment for me. I think it is rather useful, although it is not perfect. And I still use a couple of fields that are not covered by the biblatex mode – but then: JabRef luckily is highly customisable (c; Best, Dominik.- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Jabref-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jabref-users
