[Tex/LaTex] make a slightly-less-than-\fullcite

author-numberbiblatex

I am attempting to adapt the tufte-latex style to typeset a Ph.D dissertation. The style currently uses the natbib/bibentry package to insert full-text citations as numbered side-notes, and also emits a full bibliography at the end of the document. I would like to modify the document to use a shorter cite format (showing "et al" rather than full author list; removing URLs/DOIs/etc) for these side-note citations, but retain the full citation at the end of the document. I'm also leaning heavily towards using biblatex instead of bibtex, for a variety of reasons.

So the question: is it possible to create a custom, abbreviated citation style and instruct biblatex to use it in some places, and the primary/standard style in the main bib? I don't mind defining a new command (it's not necessary to redefine \fullcite, I'd rather use \abbrevcite or something).

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You don't need to define custom cite commands, but just different settings for citations v. bibliographies. For showing "et al" in citations simply use the package options maxbibnames and maxcitenames; for removing certain fields only in citations use \AtEveryCitekey and \clearfield.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[maxbibnames=99,maxcitenames=1]{biblatex}
\AtEveryCitekey{\clearfield{url}}

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{A01,
  author = {Author, A. and Buthor, B. and Cuthor, C. and Duthor, D.},
  year = {2001},
  title = {Alpha},
  url = {http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/12806/510},
}
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}

Some text \footfullcite{A01}.

\printbibliography

\end{document}

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Rather than redefining the \cite command, I would use biblatex’s ability to let every citation go into a footnote (option autocite=footnote) which then will go into a sidenote (since tufte-latex uses the normal \footnote command for sidenotes). The following works for me with the tufte-common.def 3.5.2 from the tufte-latex svn repository. To override the original def file, just save the revised one as $TEXMFHOME/tex/latex/tufte-latex/tufte-common.def, where $TEXMFHOME is the path returned by kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFHOME.

\documentclass[nobib]{tufte-handout}

\usepackage{hyphenat}
\usepackage[
  style=verbose,
  autocite=footnote,
  backend=biber
]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\begin{document}

This,\autocite{springer} should be a side note and this\autocite{springer} should too.

\printbibliography 

\end{document}

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Citation commands should be able to cope with multiple keys in their mandatory argument, and those keys may be of different entry types. Also, the \citeyearpar command will wrap its output (the content of one or multiple year fields) into a single set of parentheses. Therefore I don't think it's a good idea (though it may be possible) to redefine \citeyearpar according to the entry type of one of its multiple keys. Instead, I suggest to define a \citenumber macro which resembles \citeyearpar, but prints the content of the number field(s) and omits the surrounding parentheses.

Your suggested redefinition of \citealp faces an additional obstacle: The country name strings of section 4.9.2.19 of the biblatex manual are used in the patent's location field, but this field is optional and (as a list field) allows multiple entries, so the output of a possible \citelocnumber macro may not be as pretty as you expect.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[style=verbose,backend=bibtex8,natbib=true]{biblatex}

\DeclareCiteCommand{\citepatnumber}
  {\boolfalse{citetracker}%
   \boolfalse{pagetracker}%
   \usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\ifentrytype{patent}{\printfield{number}}{\GenericError{}{Not a patent entry}{}{}}}
  {\multicitedelim}
  {\usebibmacro{postnote}}

\DeclareCiteCommand{\citepatlocnumber}
  {\boolfalse{citetracker}%
   \boolfalse{pagetracker}%
   \usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\printlist[][-\value{listtotal}]{location}%
   \ifentrytype{patent}{\printfield{number}}{\GenericError{}{Not a patent entry}{}{}}}
  {\multicitedelim}
  {\usebibmacro{postnote}}

\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\begin{document}

\citepatnumber{kowalik,almendro}

\citepatlocnumber{kowalik,almendro}

% Commenting the following in will raise a generic error
% \citepatnumber{knuth:ct:a}

\printbibliography

\end{document}

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