First up, I'm using natbib
.
I'm trying implement a citation style (Thankfully only a few citations, so I'm happy to work things by hand) that is essentially of the following form:
-
At the point of citation one has a superscript number, referring to a footnote (well,
\sidenote
, actually) -
The footnote1 contains version 1 of the citation, for example
1Fname LName, Title (Publisher info) pageno.
- The citation also appears in the bibliography, in version 2:
LName, FName Title Publisher Info
I was thinking of using a command
\newcommand{\mycite}[2]{%
\sidenote{\modifiedcite{#1}\citetext{#2}}%
}
where \modifiedcite
generated an entry in the bibliography from a .bib
file, but placed nothing in the text at that point.
Ideally, one would actually generate the footnote from the information contained in the .bib
file together with a page number, but this is far beyond me.
Edit: I'm not married to natbib
, but I had a look at the biblatex
so-called manual, and my goodness, I think I'd have to learn a new language to use it.
Here are some clarifying points:
This is for my wife's honours project (in music). LaTeX is completely alien to her, so I'm just taking her Wrod document and typesetting it properly. I don't want to learn a whole new package for a <15 page article. I'm not going to use this sort of system ever again.
The thesis uses something the university's citation guidelines call MLA, but having had a look at the online MLA citation style guidelines (including TeX-based solutions), I find it hard to recognise as such. For instance, it asks for basically a complete bibliographic record for a source for the first time it is cited (in an endnote, but I'm using a wide-margin format and using \sidenote
, no matter the complaints), with a page number reference. After that, each citation of the same work gets an 'Author-surname, page-no.' end/sidenote. Then there is a bibliography, which is more than just the works cited, and each entry is in a subtly different style to before (as outlined above).
To make things easier, I'll remove all prescriptions, and ask: what is the best way to do this, keeping in mind the payoff between reproducibility/good practice/time and effort.
Best Answer
A recent question mentioned a revision of tufte-latex that allows one to use biblatex instead of natbib.
It sounds like biblatex's built-in style
verbose
meets most of your requirements, but every citation after the first are printed with titles. I've made a small edit to the citation style to avoid this. To disambiguate citations to multiple works by the same author(s)/editor(s), you can use theshorttitle
field as I've done below. biblatex can (likely) be configured to perform disambiguation withtitle
/shorttitle
automatically, but since this is a one-off there isn't much point in pursuing such a feature.