biblatex-abs-annote

A biblatex supplement for producing annotated bibliographies that render an abstract and a user-supplied annotation beneath each citation entry.

Both the abstract and annotation (or annote) fields are standard BibLaTeX, so no custom entry types are required. Any combination is optional per entry; an entry with neither renders as an ordinary citation.

biblatex-abs-annote is the biblatex component of the cross-format ab-annotate toolchain (Typst and Quarto companions live in the same repository).

Installation

Once accepted into CTAN, TeX Live and MikTeX users get it automatically. Otherwise:

tlmgr install biblatex-abs-annote

Usage

\usepackage[style=authoryear]{biblatex}
\usepackage{biblatex-abs-annote}
\addbibresource{refs.bib}

\begin{document}
\nocite{*}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

See biblatex-abs-annote.pdf for the full manual, including options, customization commands, and compatibility notes.

Bundle contents

File	Purpose
biblatex-abs-annote.sty	The package
biblatex-abs-annote.tex	Documentation source
biblatex-abs-annote.pdf	Documentation (compiled)
LICENSE	LPPL 1.3c text
README.md	This file

Dependencies

biblatex (with biber), xpatch, changepage, kvoptions — all standard in current TeX Live and MikTeX distributions.

Cross-format companions

biblatex-abs-annote is the LaTeX component of a cross-format toolchain sharing the same .bib conventions:

• A Typst package (@preview/ab-annotate) for Typst documents.
• A Quarto extension (cwimpy/ab-annotate) for PDF/HTML/Word/Typst output from a single .qmd.

Full source: https://github.com/cwimpy/ab-annotate.

License

LaTeX Project Public License, version 1.3c. See LICENSE.

Maintainer

Cameron Wimpy — <cwimpy@astate.edu>