Type option for Bachelor's thesis

[claell]

Is your suggestion for improvement related to a problem? Please describe.
A thesis can have different types, but right now, there is none for Bachelor's thesis.

Describe the solution you'd like
I want such a field, but not sure whether this also requires support for that in biblatex.

Do you know the best way to achieve this (or a good way, how to treat BA theses)?

[ThiloteE]

You could create your own custom entry type, but obviously biblatex based citationstyles will not adapt their style based on your custom type. For this reason, your best choice would have been to contact the biblatex project. You can find it here: https://github.com/plk/biblatex, but this is not necessary, as a quick search let me find following bachelor thesis related issue: plk/biblatex#660

Looks like bathesis is a thing:

The following keys are typically used in the \bibfield{type} field of \bibtype{thesis}, \bibtype{report}, \bibtype{misc}, and other entries:

\begin{keymarglist}
\item[bathesis] An expression equivalent to the term <Bachelor's thesis>.
\item[mathesis] An expression equivalent to the term <Master's thesis>.
\item[phdthesis] The term , , , etc.
\item[candthesis] An expression equivalent to the term . Used for degrees that have no clear equivalent to the Master's or doctoral level.

But I am not sure what the \bibfield[type} field is about.

[claell]

Thanks for looking it up 🙂

So it seems the ball is now back in JabRef's field, as this type needs to be added to the dropdown field.

[ThiloteE]

1. I looked it up and the type field already exists.
   

2. What could be better is for users to find out about these fixed acronyms
   

   • there could be some examples.
   • add Bachelor's Thesis to the clickable dropdown list

3. If you feel like pushing it, you also could request BachelorThesis to become a full type, just like MastersThesis or PhdThesis, but for this the ball is back in biblatex's garden.

[claell]

Maybe, I was not clear enough, or also misunderstood the concept in JabRef a bit.

I am aware that the field already exists in JabRef. I was talking about the dropdown for it. There, no option for Bachelor's thesis is shown:

So my suggestion is to add this to the dropdown.

[claell]

(I am not sure, where the data for the dropdown is currently coming from. Some options don't seem to make sense in that current scope (like Technical report or Audio CD. So maybe these dropdown suggestions are currently not dependent on the Entrytype.)