[Tex/LaTex] Footfullcite not working with thebibliography

bibliographiescitingfooterfootnotes

I must ask for your help despite my best efforts to find some similar solved problem online.

I am trying to get a full reference in the footnote using the \footfullcite{} commmand linking to a reference I have previously entered in the \thebibliography section. However I'm only managing to get a footnote written as the \bibitem item. I've read several times that using bibdesk would be easier, but I want full control of my references, and I want to access it in my main.tex this is why I want to stick with thebibliography.

My code goes something like (I use the memoir advanced template on MacTeX)

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,article]{memoir} 

\usepackage[backend=bibtex,style=authoryear,natbib=true]{biblatex} 

\begin{document}

my text here \footfullcite{ref1}

\begin{thebibliography}{}
\bibitem{ref1} Name (year), Title, Town, Edition
\end{thebibliography} 

\end{document}

And this gives me:

Output

when I would like to have the full reference as I have entered it in my bibliography, with author (year), title, town, edition.

Bonus question, I would like to make a reference out of the caption of a figure, although when I have done so, the superscript always seem to be misaligned on the text. Any thought on that ?

I thank you very much in advance for your kind help !

Best Answer

The idea behind using biblatex (or bibtex) is to not manually format your bibliography.

Automatic

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,article]{memoir} 

\usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true]{biblatex} 
\addbibresource{test.bib}

\begin{document}

my text here \footfullcite{knuth}

\printbibliography

\end{document}

with a file test.bin of the format

@article{knuth,
  author       = {Knuth, Donald E.},
  title        = {Some title},
  date         = 1984,
  location     = {Nice city},
  journal      = {good journal},
  volume       = {42}
}

Keep the manual formatting

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,article]{memoir} 

\newcommand{\refa}{Name (year), Title, Town, Edition}

\begin{document}

my text here\footnote{\refa}

\begin{thebibliography}{}
\bibitem{refa} \refa
\end{thebibliography} 

\end{document}
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