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The biblatex package is a complete reimplementation of the
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bibliographic facilities provided by LaTeX. A custom backend "Biber"
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by default is used which processed the BibTeX format data files and
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them performs all sorting, label generation (and a great deal
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more). Legacy BibTeX is also supported as a backend, albeit with a
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reduced feature set. Biblatex does not use the backend to format the
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bibliography information as with traditional BibTeX: instead of being
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implemented in BibTeX's style files, the formatting of the bibliography
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is entirely controlled by TeX macros. Good working knowledge in LaTeX
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should be sufficient to design new bibliography and citation styles.
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There is no need to learn BibTeX's postfix stack language.
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Just like the bibliography styles, all citation commands may
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be freely (re)defined. Apart from the features unique to biblatex,
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the package also incorporates core features of the following packages:
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babelbib,backref, bibtopic, bibunits, chapterbib, cite, citeref, inlinebib,
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mlbib, multibib, natbib, splitbib. There are also some conceptual
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parallels to the amsrefs package. The biblatex package supports split
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bibliographies, multiple bibliographies within one document,and separate
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lists of bibliographic shorthands. Bibliographies may be
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subdivided into parts (by chapter, by section, etc.) and/or segmented
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by topics (by type, by keyword, etc.). With biber as the backend,
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features such as customisable sorting, multiple bibliographies with different
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sorting, customisable labels, dynamic data modification are available.
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The package is fully localized and can interface with the babel package.
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