I am using biblatex-chicago
in the notes style. Sometimes I want to use the \parencite*
command in a footnote, so as to produce, say:
Thomas S. Kuhn (The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought [1957; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995]) wrote that…
The documentation for the biblatex-chicago
package does not mention this case (parenthetical citation without author while using the notes style), but in the documentation of the biblatex
package, it is said about \parencite*
(p. 80):
This command is provided by all author-year and author-title styles.
It is similar to the regular\parencite
command but merely prints the
year or the title, respectively.
However, I cannot get it to work with the biblatex-chicago
notes style. Instead, I get the full citation with the author's name, even if I use the starred (*) option of the command. This is a minimal working example (I compile using XeLaTeX) that illustrates the problem:
\documentclass[utf8,12pt,letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage[notes,strict,isbn=false,backend=biber,bibencoding=utf8,hyperref=true]{biblatex-chicago}
\addbibresource{bibliography.bib}
\begin{document}
Thomas S.\ Kuhn \parencite*{Kuhn19571995TheCopernicanRevolution} wrote that\ldots
\end{document}
The contents of bibliography.bib
being:
@book{Kuhn19571995TheCopernicanRevolution,
author = {Kuhn, {Thomas S.}},
title = {The Copernican Revolution},
subtitle = {Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought},
publisher = {Harvard University Press},
address = {Cambridge, Mass.},
date = {1995},
origdate = {1957}
}
The resulting PDF looks like this:
Any ideas?
Best Answer
In
biblatex-chicago
, the\cite*
commands turn off ibidem-tracker (see § 4.3.2 of thebiblatex-chicago
documentation) while in the standardbiblatex
styles\cite*
has exactly the behaviour you expect (see § 3.7.2 of thebiblatex
documentation).NB: the solutions here are quite hacky - especially the one for fullcite - maybe you could contact the maintainer and ask him to incorporate this feature, in the meantime use this solution with care.
To achieve the behaviour you expect, we will need to modify the
biblatex-chicago
styles quite heavily.Copy
biblatex-chicago.sty
,chicago-notes.bbx
andchicago-notes.cbx
to a location wherelatex
can find them and rename them to, let's say,biblatex-chicago-na.sty
,chicago-notes-na.bbx
andchicago-notes-na.cbx
respectively.First, we modify
biblatex-chicago-na.sty
. Just addafter
\DeclareOption{notes}{\def\cms@style{notes}}
(l. 21).Then add
to line 68, somewhere after the block
\def\cms@notesna{......}
.We now modify
chicago-notes-na.cbx
. Addafter the block from
\newbibmacro*{cite}{...}
(around line 260).Finally, add the following block of code.
You should also change the macro
newbibmacro*{cite:ibid}
to (I've added two%
s so there is not spurious white space in\parencite
with ibidem)You then use the modified style like this
\usepackage[notes-na,strict,isbn=false,backend=biber,bibencoding=utf8,hyperref=true]{biblatex-chicago-na}
, the new command is\parencitena{...}
.MWE