[Tex/LaTex] Difficulties with chicago citation – NOT change author’s name

biblatexchicago-style

In this site, it is described how chicago citation should look like; the date of the book, for example, are at the end. Also, as far as I know, when you cite in the text the citation isn't included in the main text but it goes as a footnote at the end of the page.

So, if I make a footnote commenting on something that I don't want in the main text and I have a citation in the footnote, how this will be cited? Also, why there is a difference here and how it should properly look like?

EDIT

How could we force bibLaTeX not to change the name and the surname of author cited? For example I want to reference World Bank and in Reference list it writes Bank, World, which is not what I need.

Best Answer

There are two distinct "Chicago" styles: one in which citations are basically put into footnotes, and one which uses the author/date style, when citations generally go in parentheses in the text. They not only produce different citation styles, but slightly different bibliographies, because it makes sense in an author/date style to print the date immediately after the author, whereas in a footnote style it doesn't. You have to decide which to use.

In either case, so long as you use biblatex, the biblatex-chicago package will take care of things for you. For the author/date style, you load it with the option authordate, and for the notes style you load it with the option notes.

The biblatex-chicago package is a stable, maintained and well-documented package. Its only peculiarity is that it is loaded not as a biblatex style, but as a complete package. I cannot speak for the consistency of bibtex chicago styles, but as your question suggests you use biblatex (a sound choice in this case) I assume that is what you are interested in.

So far as names are concerned, institutional names should always be protected by braces: so in the case where the author is "World Bank", your .bib file should have

... author = {{World Bank}}

The following is a small example of the notes style:

\documentclass[a5paper]{article}

\usepackage[notes]{biblatex-chicago}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}% Standard file

\begin{document}

If we are using the Notes style, loaded with
\begin{verbatim}
\usepackage[notes]{biblatex-chicago}
\end{verbatim} then citations such as this \autocite{reese} 
are put in the notes. If a citation is expressly put in a 
footnote\footnote{As if we decided to cite a work in the 
  footnote like this: \autocite{cotton}.}
the package takes care of that for us. All we
need use is \verb|\autocite{}|. In this case, the year
comes \emph{last} in the bibliography.

\printbibliography

\end{document}

notes style

And the following is a small example of the authordate style:

\documentclass[a5paper]{article}

\usepackage[authordate]{biblatex-chicago}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}% Standard file

\begin{document}

If we are using the author/date style, loaded with
\begin{verbatim}
\usepackage[authordate]{biblatex-chicago}
\end{verbatim} then citations such as this \autocite{reese} 
are put in the text. If a citation is expressly put in a 
footnote\footnote{As if we decided to cite a work in the footnote 
  like this \autocite{cotton}.} 
the package takes care of that for us too. All we
need use is \verb|\autocite{}|. In this case, the year 
comes \emph{first} in the bibliography.

As with all author/date styles, it's often useful to 
use the \verb|\textcite| command in this case as well, 
in case we want to say that \textcite{cotton} have said 
something of interest.\footnote{And that might be true 
  in a footnote as well, if \textcite{cotton} had something 
  to tell us.}

\printbibliography

\end{document}

author/date style

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