I am supposed to use a certain citation style which has the citations in footnotes and square brackets around the references, just like "regular" citations in text (see screenshot).
I can't however, make biblatex use brackets in the footnotes when using \footcite
, i.e.:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=alphabetic]{biblatex}
\begin{filecontents*}{bibliography.bib}
@BOOK{Cornelisse1979,
author = {Cornelisse, J. W. and Schöyer, H. Ferry R. and Wakker, Karel F.},
title = {Rocket Propulsion and Spaceflight Dynamics},
year = {1979},
publisher = {Pitman},
}
\end{filecontents*}
\bibliography{bibliography.bib}
\begin{document}
\null
\vfill
Regular citation: \cite{Cornelisse1979} and a footnote citation
here\footcite{Cornelisse1979}.
But it shall look like this\footnote{\cite{Cornelisse1979}}.
\end{document}
In the screenshot, one can see that the "CSW79" is not bracketed. Using \footnote
manually seems like a hack to me.
How to make it print brackets around the reference in the footnote when using footcite
?
Ideally: How to make it cite in the footnotes by default, so that I can \cite
away without having to use \footcite
?
I had a look at other tex.sx questions like this or this, but they solve different problems as I don't want the superscript or number to be bracketed but the reference.
Best Answer
You can redefine the wrapper of footnotes created by
\footcite
:This puts the complete citation inside brackets including the pre/post note. If you want to do it only for the label you can use:
A small hint:
biblatex
uses\addbibresource
instead of\bibliography
Here the example: