% % This file presents the 'alphabetic' style with labels formatted with % '\DeclareLabelalphaTemplate'. % \documentclass[a4paper]{article} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[american]{babel} \usepackage{csquotes} \usepackage[style=alphabetic,backend=biber]{biblatex-ms} \usepackage{hyperref} \addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib} \DeclareLabelalphaTemplate{ \labelelement{ \field[final]{shorthand} \field{label} \field[strwidth=3,strside=left,ifnames=1]{labelname} \field[strwidth=1,strside=left]{labelname} } \labelelement{ \field[strwidth=2,strside=right]{year} } } \begin{document} Filler text \parencite{wassenberg,cicero,companion,kant:kpv,kant:ku,cms,ctan}. \printbibliography \end{document}