Citing from an Encyclopedia with sub voce

Question

I would like to cite from an encyclopedia. My advisor would like me to use s.v. (see 1. example here: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._v. ).

I am currently using @incollection but adding s.v. to the TITLE= will wrongly put it between the quotation marks.

Is there a better suited bibtex template? I am using biber with biblatex

Update MWE:

documentclass{article}
usepackage[backend=biber,style=authoryear]{biblatex}
begin{document}
printbibliography
end {document}

@incollection{BAR60,
        Author={Foo Bar},
        Title={s.v. Baz},
        Year={1960},
        Booktitle={Encyclopaedia of Everything}
}

How should it look like:

Bar, Foo (1960) s.v. "Baz". In: Encyclopaedia of Everything

moewe · Accepted Answer

I suggest you use the special type @inreference that is specifically for dictionaries and encyclopaedias.
@inreference{BAR60,
  author    = {Foo Bar},
  title     = {Baz},
  year      = {1960},
  booktitle = {Encyclopaedia of Everything},
}

Then you can just do
NewBibliographyString{subvoce}
DefineBibliographyStrings{english}{
  subvoce = {sadddot vadddot},
}
DeclareFieldFormat[inreference]{title}{%
  bibstring{subvoce}addabbrvspacemkbibquote{#1isdot}}

to automatically add the "s.v." to the title.
MWE
documentclass{article}
usepackage[backend=biber,style=authoryear]{biblatex}

NewBibliographyString{subvoce}
DefineBibliographyStrings{english}{
  subvoce = {sadddot vadddot},
}
DeclareFieldFormat[inreference]{title}{%
  bibstring{subvoce}addabbrvspacemkbibquote{#1isdot}}

begin{filecontents*}{jobname.bib}
@inreference{BAR60,
  author    = {Foo Bar},
  title     = {Baz},
  year      = {1960},
  booktitle = {Encyclopaedia of Everything},
}
end{filecontents*}
addbibresource{jobname.bib}

begin{document}
cite{BAR60}
printbibliography
end {document}

If you want the 's.v.' to remain in lowercase at all times, you can sprinkle in a midsentence
DeclareFieldFormat[inreference]{title}{%
  midsentencebibstring{subvoce}addabbrvspacemkbibquote{#1isdot}}

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