[Tex/LaTex] How to make Chicago Manual Style – Notes and Bibliography style work

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probably this is a easy question to answer but I'm just learning how to work with texstudio and latex. Currently I'm writing my thesis and I have to use chicago Manual Style – Notes and bibliography style. So the first citation with \footnote has to give me a full citation and the second time a shortened footnote citation. In the end I need the full bibliography printed (\printbibliography). I'm using biblatex and biber in Miktex. With the current package I have, I only get full citations in the footnotes and not a second shortened footnote… Does someone know what I'm doing wrong? Thanks in advance!

This is an example of the declaration of my packages:

\PassOptionsToPackage{english}{babel}
\documentclass[a4paper,oneside,10pt]{book}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=chicago-notes]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{../ref/mijnbibliografie.bib}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{bibentry}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{../LaTeX/Packages/boxedminipage/boxedminipage}
\usepackage[big, pagestyles]{../LaTeX/Packages/titlesec/titlesec}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{hyperref} 
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage[font=small]{caption}
\usepackage[final]{pdfpages}
\usepackage{amsmath}

Best Answer

Unless you have a very good reason not to, you should load the biblatex-chicago styles via the dedicated biblatex-chicago package. Use

\usepackage[notes,backend=biber]{biblatex-chicago}

instead of \usepackage[backend=biber,style=chicago-notes]{biblatex}.

If you load the style via its package, some options are set for you; amongst those are the options for citetracking, which are otherwise disabled by default. The options set for the note style are

  \ExecuteBibliographyOptions{%
    pagetracker=true,autocite=footnote,abbreviate=false,alldates=comp,
    citetracker=true,ibidtracker=constrict,usetranslator=true,
    usenamec=true,loccittracker=constrict,dateabbrev=false,
    maxbibnames=10,minbibnames=7,sorting=cms,sortcase=false}
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