Mrthfx

My question is rather the opposite, since I want to remove the bolded part from a citation:

Xu, J., Benbasat, I., & Cenfetelli, R. T. (labelyearlabelmonthlabelday). “Integrating service quality with sys-tem and information quality: An empirical test in the e-service context,”MIS quarterly, 777–794. ( )(cit. on p.6).

This is the cls code which came with the template, perhaps you could point to where that is coming from:

ProvidesFile{biblatex.cfg}



DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{last-first}



% Put titles in quotes for most types

DeclareFieldFormat

  [online,article,inbook,incollection,inproceedings,thesis,unpublished,patent]

  {title}{mkbibquote{#1addcomma}}

DeclareFieldFormat

  [book]

  {title}{mkbibemph{#1addcomma}}



DeclareFieldFormat

  [inbook,incollection,inproceedings]

  {booktitle}{mkbibemph{#1addcomma}}



% Attempted Fixes for ONLINE entries

DefineBibliographyStrings{english}{%

  url = {available online at},

  }



DeclareFieldFormat{url}{bibstring{url}spaceurl{#1}}

DeclareFieldFormat{urldate}{printtext{accessed}space#1}



renewbibmacro*{url+urldate}{%

  printtext[parens]{%

   printfield{url}addsemicolonspace

   printurldate

  }}



% Year formatting

renewbibmacro*{date+extrayear}{%

  iffieldundef{thefield{datelabelsource}year}

    {}

    {printtext{%

       printfield{thefield{datelabelsource}year}%

       printfield{extrayear}}}}%

renewbibmacro*{date}{%

  iffieldundef{month}

    {}

    {printdate}}%

renewbibmacro*{issue+date}{%

  ifboolexpr{

    test {iffieldundef{issue}}

    and

    test {iffieldundef{month}}

  }

    {}

    {printtext{%

       printfield{issue}%

       setunit*{addspace}%

       printdate}}%

  newunit}



% Fix names

DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{last-first}

renewcommand*{labelnamepunct}{addperiodspace }

renewcommand*{finalnamedelim}{,addspace andaddspace }



% Fix "in"

renewbibmacro*{in:}{%

  printtext{%

    inspace}}



% Gotta get rid of the "in" before journal title

DeclareBibliographyDriver{article}{%

  usebibmacro{bibindex}%

  usebibmacro{begentry}%

  usebibmacro{author/translator+others}%

  setunit{labelnamepunct}newblock

  usebibmacro{title}%

  newunit

  printlist{language}%

  newunitnewblock

  usebibmacro{byauthor}%

  newunitnewblock

  usebibmacro{bytranslator+others}%

  newunitnewblock

  printfield{version}%

  newunitnewblock

  usebibmacro{journal+issuetitle}%

  newunit

  usebibmacro{byeditor+others}%

  newunit

  usebibmacro{note+pages}%

  newunitnewblock

  iftoggle{bbx:isbn}

    {printfield{issn}}

    {}%

  newunitnewblock

  usebibmacro{doi+eprint+url}%

  newunitnewblock

  usebibmacro{addendum+pubstate}%

  setunit{bibpagerefpunct}newblock

  usebibmacro{pageref}%

  newunitnewblock

  iftoggle{bbx:related}

    {usebibmacro{related:init}%

     usebibmacro{related}}

    {}%

  usebibmacro{finentry}}



% Make (Volume:Issue)

newbibmacro*{volume+number+eid}{%

  printtext[parens]{%

  printfield{volume}%

  setunit*{:}%

  printfield{number}}%

  setunit{addcommaspace}%

  printfield{eid}}



% Fix editor

renewbibmacro*{byeditor+others}{%

  ifnameundef{editor}

    {}

    {printnames[byeditor]{editor}%

     setunit{addspace}%

     printtext[parens]{usebibmacro{apaeditorstrg}{editor}}%

     % usebibmacro{byeditor+othersstrg}%

     clearname{editor}%

     newunit}%

  usebibmacro{byeditorx}%

  usebibmacro{bytranslator+others}}



newbibmacro*{apaeditorstrg}[1]{%

  iffieldundef{#1type}

    {ifthenelse{value{#1}>1ORifandothers{#1}}

       {bibstring{editors}}

       {bibstring{editor}}}

    {ifthenelse{value{#1}>1ORifandothers{#1}}

         {bibcpstring{typethefield{#1type}s}}

         {bibcpstring{typethefield{#1type}}}}}



% Fix appearance of , with name lists of two

renewcommand*{finalnamedelim}{%

  ifnumgreater{value{liststop}}{2}{finalandcomma}{}%

  addspacebibstring{and}space}

endinput

Googling for the characteristic phrase

% Gotta get rid of the "in" before journal title

in the comments leads to https://github.com/rschuetzler/latex-icis-template/blob/master/biblatex.cfg and indeed the contents of that file are identical to the .cfg in your question.

If I run the testdoc.tex included in the repository in its current state I do not get the backref/pageref output

(cit. on p. 1)

But there is a second characteristic bit in your question, the

labelyearlabelmonthlabelday

suggests that you are using biblatex-apa and failed to provide an appropriate language mapping or definition (cf. Problem with mkbibdateapalongextra of biblatex-apa and many other linked questions).

Indeed, if I change icisfinal.cls to load style=apa instead of style=authoryear I also get the

(cit. on p. 1)

in the output.

biblatex-apa uses a slightly different way to control the back references, see https://github.com/plk/biblatex-apa/issues/72. If you use biblatex-apa, the style automatically sets backref=true and lets you control the output of the backreferences with the option apabackref.

Unfortunately, due to the redefinition of the @article driver in biblatex.cfg, apabackref=false won't remove all backreferences with this template (the driver uses the standard macro pageref and not its biblatex-apa version apa:pageref). You can, however, still resort to the standard method of using

backref=false,

Add this line to the biblatex loading option and that should remove the unwanted backreferences.

I should add that it is always risky to deviate from a template (i.e. the change from style=authoryear to style=apa). If you don't have an extremely strong reason to use this template I would avoid it. In particular because the redefinition of the @article driver could have other unwanted consequences if you use biblatex-apa.

While I do enjoy a bit of sleuthing from time to time, please consider including all necessary/vital information (like which template you use, where it is available, ...) as well as a short example document that reproduces the undesired behaviour (a so-called MWE: I've just been asked to write a minimal example, what is that?, or MWEB: How to write a MWEB (Minimal working example with Bibliography)?) in your question. That makes it much easier to answer.