[Tex/LaTex] Biblatex-chicago endnotes instead of footnotes with autocite

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I have been using the biblatex-chicago package in my essay to generate footnotes for citations using \autocite and \autocites… but now I wish to have endnotes rather than footnotes. I first load the biblatex-chicago package as follows:

\usepackage[backend=biber,notes,natbib,isbn=false]{biblatex-chicago}

I have tried a variety of creative methods to then use endnotes, including:

\usepackage{endnotes}
\let\footnote=\endnote
%begin page
%content here, include references like \autocite[191]{LetHistoryJudge}
%end of content
\theendnotes

This successfully includes "Notes" at the end, but it doesn't translate the bib reference into the actual citations. I get "LaTeX Warning: Citation 'LetHistoryJudge' on page 7 undefined on input line 29." and similar warnings for all of my citations. These citations, I might add, work perfectly fine as footnotes when I remove the endnotes package and don't redefine the endnote command as the footnote command. What's the proper way to do this? I haven't found an option in the biblatex-chicago package itself that would allow me to set endnotes instead of footnotes.

Thank you in advance for any help!

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I know this type of problem, and have identified a few issues myself:

Make sure you have installed all the packages of biblatex-chicago as per the documentation
Update your package repository to the latest
Make sure you refresh your FNDB and Update Formats (from settings menu in MiKteX)
I used winedit 8, and biber, so I needed to get an extra plugin called lateXify, which compiles, does the cross referencing, compiles again, etc...

Winedit is not free, but the trial version is pretty functional and it's not expensive.

I needed to install latex on another computer, and had to go through all the pain again, and realised, following the steps above, correctly, got me where I wanted.

Hope that helps you.

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[Tex/LaTex] Get biblatex-chicago working

The following minimal example works for me. Note that biblatex-chicago now requires the use of biber as opposed to bibtex if you are using author-date style or if your .bib file is UTF-8 encoded.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[nopar]{lipsum} % for dummy text
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage[babel]{csquotes}
\usepackage[notes,natbib,isbn=false,backend=biber]{biblatex-chicago}  
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@book{Saussure1995,
    Author = {Ferdinand de Saussure},
    Origyear = {1916},
    Publisher = {Payot},
    Title = {Cours de Linguistique G{\'e}n{\'e}rale},
    Year = {1995}}

@book{Labov1972,
    Address = {Philadelphia},
    Author = {William Labov},
    Publisher = {University of Pennsylvania Press},
    Title = {Sociolinguistic Patterns},
    Year = {1972}}

\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{document}


\lipsum[1]\autocite{Saussure1995}

\lipsum[2]\autocite{Labov1972}


\end{document}

Here are some extra considerations on using biblatex:

Make sure your TeX distribution is completely up-to-date. biblatex, biber, and the bibliography styles that depend on them are being actively developed, and small changes might have big effects.
biblatex is increasingly becoming dependent on biber as a backend (as opposed to bibtex) and although some packages work with both, you may want to consider using biber if you are using biblatex at all.
biblatex generates a lot of auxiliary files with various extensions that your editing environment may not be aware of. It is also sensitive to corrupted or incomplete aux files, so it's a good idea to manually delete them if you are encountering problems. This is especially true if you are trying to switch between using biber and using bibtex on the same file.
The basic command for using biber is:
```
biber <file>.bcf
```
You may need to adjust your editing environment preferences to use it from within the editor.

[Tex/LaTex] Placing footnotes or endnotes at the end of the current paragraph

You may put each paragraph into a minipage, because minipages have their own footnotes:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\newenvironment{mpar}{\par\noindent\minipage{\linewidth}%
  \setlength{\parindent}{1em}%
}{\endminipage\par\medskip}

\begin{document}
\section{Test}
\blindtext
\begin{mpar}First example.\footnote{A note at the foot of the minipage}
\blindtext\end{mpar}
\begin{mpar}Second example.\footnote{A note at the foot of the minipage}
\blindtext\end{mpar}
\blindtext
\end{document}

Or you may define an environment, that does only copy the footnote feature of minipage:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\makeatletter
\newenvironment{footnotepar}{%
  \par
  \def\@mpfn{mpfootnote}\def\thempfn{\thempfootnote}\c@mpfootnote\z@
  \let\@footnotetext\@mpfootnotetext
}{%
  \ifvoid\@mpfootins\else
    \vskip\skip\@mpfootins
    \normalcolor
    \footnoterule
    \unvbox\@mpfootins
  \fi
  \par\smallskip
}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-3]
\begin{footnotepar}Lipsum test:\footnote{lipsum is a
    package}\lipsum[2]\end{footnotepar}
\begin{footnotepar}Another\footnote{Not really another one}
  test:\footnote{This is a lipsum test}\lipsum[3]\end{footnotepar}
\lipsum[4]
\end{document}

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