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emptyfieldformat.tex

\documentclass[british]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}

\usepackage[style=authoryear, backend=biber]{biblatex}

\DeclareFieldFormat{issue}{}% for an empty pair of parens in barrows
\DeclareFieldFormat{venue}{}% for a weird comma in the parens for salam

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{barrows,
  author  = {Adam Barrows},
  title   = {\mkbibquote{The Shortcomings of Timetables}:
             Greenwich, Modernism, and the Limits of Modernity},
  journal = {MFS Modern Fiction Studies},
  volume  = {56},
  number  = {2},
  date    = {2010},
  issue   = {Summer},
  pages   = {262-289},
  doi     = {10.1353/mfs.0.1684},
}
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}


\begin{document}
\cite{sigfridsson,barrows,salam}
\printbibliography
\end{document}