I'm trying to adapt the citation formatting provided by the verbose-trad2
style for biblatex to conform to very particular specifications I've been given. I think verbose-trad2
is the closest to all my needs amongst the default ones.
The citations are to be given in footnotes, usually as \footcite{}
, but occasionally with \footnote{Some remark... \cite{}.}
.
What I call here a full citation is the whole info on a work: author, title, publisher, date, etc. What I call an abbreviated citation is just author (always complete!), abbreviated title, and optionally the page number. The first time a work is cited, I must use the full citation, and then it depends on whether other works are cited in between or not, but never more than the abbreviated citation.
The biblatex related code I've already come up with can be found here. The LaTeX document itself is an article
with the option onepage
.
First, two hacks I have already applied.
- Always print the full name of the author. Thus I set
idemtracker=false
. - The word Idem must be used when two subsequent citations share the same author and title (instead of the default Ibid in
verbose-trad2
). Thus I redefinedibidem = idem
.
Second, there are things I still need to adapt, for which I don't have the faintest idea, even after looking through the documentation and this site. (I may have missed something, because I'm not at ease with low-level tex or biblatex code, I apologize if that's the case.)
- When two subsequent citations share the same author, title and page number (given in the square bracket argument of the
\footcite[]{}
command), just print Ibid. (nothing else). - Always begin the foonote section of a new page with a full or abbreviated citation (author (full), abbreviated title, page number), never start with an idem or ibid. even if the last citation on the previous one is similar/same. I thought the biblatex documentation implied this would work out of the box, but it doesn't seem to.
- (Optional) Abbreviated title means: if there is only one work by the author, use the expression op. cit., else use an abbreviated form of the title (do I necessarily have to use the
shorttitle
field in the bibTeX entries?)
Thanks in advance for any suggestions and help!
Best Answer
For request no. 1, add the option
ibidpage=true
. Quoting p. 2 of75-style-verbose-trad2.pdf
:For request no. 2, an
\iffirstonpage
test has to be added to thecite
bibmacro; if the test yields true, the bibmacroscite:name
andcite:title
have to be used.