biblatexciting
How can I cite an authors full name (= first name + last name) in biblatex?
@book{Gladwell2005,
author = {Gladwell, Malcolm},
address = {New York, NY},
publisher = {Back Bay Books},
title = {Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking},
year = {2005},
}
I would then like to cite the book with Malcolm Gladwell's full name. So what I'm looking for is some sort of \citefullauthorname macro.
Using a modified tufte-common.def file you can create tufte-latex documents with biblatex. A limitation is that tufte-latex modifies footnotes. So biblatex features such as \smartcite inside footnotes and footnote detection with \iffootnote may not work as intended. Most of this has already been covered in another post.
As for the citation style, you can get most of the way there with some edits to the textcite bibliography macro and \smartcite. Both of these are defined in numeric.cbx.
\documentclass[nobib]{tufte-handout}
\usepackage{hyphenat}
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=numeric,citetracker=true,autocite=footnote]{biblatex}
\makeatletter
% If not seen, avoid compact lists and print full citation
\renewbibmacro*{textcite}{%
\ifciteseen
{}
{\clearfield{namehash}}%
\iffieldequals{namehash}{\cbx@lasthash}
{\multicitedelim}
{\cbx@tempa
\ifciteseen
{\ifnameundef{labelname}
{\printfield[citetitle]{labeltitle}}
{\printnames{labelname}}}
{\usedriver
{\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{default}%
\clearfield{pages}%
\clearfield{pagetotal}}
{\thefield{entrytype}}}%
\addspace\bibopenbracket}%
\ifnumequal{\value{citecount}}{1}
{\usebibmacro{prenote}}
{}%
\usebibmacro{cite}%
\savefield{namehash}{\cbx@lasthash}%
\gdef\cbx@tempa{\bibclosebracket\multicitedelim}}
% Make \smartcite like \textcite
\DeclareCiteCommand{\smartcite}[\iffootnote\mkbibbrackets\mkbibfootnote]
{\let\cbx@tempa=\empty
\undef\cbx@lasthash}
{\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
\usebibmacro{textcite}}
{}
{\usebibmacro{postnote}%
\bibclosebracket}
\makeatother
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\begin{document}
One of the most prominent and distinctive features of this style is the
extensive use of sidenotes \autocites(See)()[10--15]{knuth:ct:a}[10]{companion}.
There is a wide margin to provide ample room for sidenotes and small figures
\autocite{knuth:ct:a,knuth:ct:b}. Any footnotes will automatically be converted to
sidenotes.\footnote{Results from \textcite{knuth:ct:a,knuth:ct:b,companion} showed
that...}
\printbibliography
\end{document}
Some notes:
autocite=footnote option setting makes \autocite use \smartcite as its backend citation command.\ifciteseen test needs citation tracking enabled. In the example global tracking is enabled via citetracker=true. Alternative settings are possible. Refer to the manual for details.\usedriver. The first argument to this command allows you to hook code in before printing. This is a good place to suppress fields with \clearfield and friends. In the example, I suppress the pages and pagetotal fields to avoid confusion with page references in postnotes.numeric, \textcite generates compact citation lists. This complicates printing full citations. The edits to textcite take an easy way out by simply replacing the labelname or labeltitle with the full citation.numeric style isn't particularly suited to this customization. Refer to the verbose style or any of its variants for some better alternatives.You can achieve the result by the following modifications:
firstinits=true: Use only the first letter of the fornameDeclare the format of the names to the order first-last. The order is specified in the name list format sortname. To change this, you can use:
\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{first-last}
The complete MWE is:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=authortitle,firstinits=true]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\begin{document}
Text \cite{companion}
\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{first-last}
\printbibliography
\end{document}
Best Answer
One may use
\DeclarenameAlias{labelname}{<whatever>}inside new author-citation commands.