I'm writing an annotated bibliography which requires full in-line citations in Chicago format. However, when I use biblatex-chicago and \fullcite to list the full citation, it varies from the reference format used in the bibliography. Specifically, the author's name is presented First M Last instead of Last, First M. The rest of the citation is fine. Any ideas why this might be and/or how to fix it?
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[authordate,numbermonth=false,doi=false,%
isbn=false,backend=biber]{biblatex-chicago}
\addbibresource{<bibfilename>.bib}
\begin{document}
Here comes the full citation that I will be using:
\fullcite{<key>}
It looks different from the reference that you will see below,%
as the first and last name are reversed.
\printbibliography
I have tried other advice regarding customization of \fullcite but most other articles deal with a different biblatex format such as APA. Any help greatly appreciated!
Best Answer
The
authordate
style frombiblatex-chicago
uses the standard definition of\fullcite
frombiblatex.def
:\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{default}
sets thesortname
list in the defaultfirst-last
format. Deleting this bit of code will give the same format as the bibliography. So you can add the following re-definition to your preamble: