biblatexciting
This might be a trivial question but here goes.
Two aspects to my problem:
First; is it possible to have different styles for different citations in the same document?
Second; how can I customize a biblatex citestyle/create my own, such that the citation is only the year, for example?
What I want to achieve is be able to alternate between the 2 citation styles below:
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.From the documentation acmsmall-guide.pdf (page 1:11):
So you need to use \citeN or \citeyear. A little example:
\documentclass[prodmode,acmtecs]{acmsmall}
\acmVolume{9}
\acmNumber{4}
\acmArticle{39}
\acmYear{2010}
\acmMonth{3}
\begin{document}
\cite{Cohen07}
\citeN{Cohen07}
\bibliographystyle{ACM-Reference-Format-Journals}
\bibliography{acmsmall-sample-bibfile}
\end{document}
Best Answer
Your description is not very precise. But it seems that you simply want two forms of citation that
biblatexalready has:\parencite{}will give you citations in the first form.\textcite{}will give you citations in the second form.For more information on the various different citation commands available you may like to consult section 3.8.1 of the
biblatexmanual (available throughtexdoc, or chapter 5 of my Easier Read, or Clea F. Rees's recently released biblatex cheat sheet.If you want to automate this further (e.g. to use one form for a particular source), then more work may be needed: but if what you want is based on the way you are citing, the ordinary commands are what you will need. There are many specific citation commands that can be used directly or built into something that should work for you.