[Tex/LaTex] Placing bibtex entries inline

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I would like to place the name and the title of a BibTeX entry inline.

Something like:

[JD2012] John Doe, Title of Paper.

Any Idea?

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Biblatex has two macros called \citeauthor and \citetitle which one can use. You can either just write them one after the other or define yourself a new command like the mycite in my code example below:

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{test,
    author={A. Uthor},
    title = {A neat paper},
    journal = {Some random Journal},
    year = {2013}
}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=alphabetic]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\newcommand{\mycite}[1]{\cite{#1} \citeauthor{#1} \citetitle{#1}}

\begin{document}
\cite{test} \citeauthor{test} \citetitle{test}

\mycite{test}

\printbibliography
\end{document}

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The only missing point is the first name of the Author but maybe you can live with that.

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[Tex/LaTex] No comma between location and year, year in parentheses in case of a journal

The verbose style and its variants follow an authortitle-style bibliography, which is closely based on the standard style defined in standard.bbx.

From this file you can see that the punctuation preceding publication dates are set by a few different bibliography macros, depending on the entry type: issue+date for @article, publisher+location+date for most books, institution+location+date for reports and theses, organization+location+date for @misc, and location+date for @booklet and @unpublished.

In issue+date publication dates are already set in parentheses. To remove punctuation before the page reference you can redefine the \bibpagespunct command from biblatex.def in your preamble:

\renewcommand*{\bibpagespunct}{%
  \ifentrytype{article}{\addspace}{\addcomma\space}}

To remove page prefixes (e.g. "p." and "pp.") add:

\DeclareFieldFormat{page}{#1}
\DeclareFieldFormat{pages}{#1}

The comma preceding the publication date in other entry types can originate from a few different places. For example in publisher+location+date:

\newbibmacro*{publisher+location+date}{%
  \printlist{location}%
  \iflistundef{publisher}
    {\setunit*{\addcomma\space}}% <- HERE
    {\setunit*{\addcolon\space}}%
  \printlist{publisher}%
  \setunit*{\addcomma\space}% <- OR HERE
  \usebibmacro{date}%
  \newunit}

Same goes for the other *location+date macros. To remove the commas change all relevant instances of \addcomma\space to \addspace in your redefinitions. Otherwise you can use the following dirty trick (at your own risk):

\renewbibmacro*{date}{\setunit{\addspace}\printdate}

In all these publications dates, if you are just wanting to print the publication year add the following to your preamble.

\AtEveryBibitem{%
  \clearfield{month}%
  \clearfield{day}}

\AtEveryCitekey{%
  \clearfield{month}%
  \clearfield{day}}

Your last request about use of shortauthor and shorttitle in citations would be better addressed as a new question. It needs to be clarified anyway.

[Tex/LaTex] How to reverse name and first name

You will also have to set default, as the cite commands in verbose-trad2* temporarily set \DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{default} (and by ... default default is \DeclareNameAlias{default}{given-family}).

So just issue

\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{family-given}
\DeclareNameAlias{default}{family-given}

in the preamble. Note that default is used in a few other places as well, so this change also affects the bibliography. If you want a modification that affects only the citations, see below.

The MWE

\documentclass{article}  
\usepackage[style=verbose-trad2, backend=biber]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{family-given}
\DeclareNameAlias{default}{family-given}

\begin{document}
  A\footcite{wilde}
  B\footcite{cicero}
  \printbibliography
\end{document}

gives

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* The code can be found in verbose-trad2.cbx, the sixth line below is the offending one.

\newbibmacro*{cite:full}{%
  \usebibmacro{cite:full:citepages}%
  \global\toggletrue{cbx:fullcite}%
  \printtext[bibhypertarget]{%
    \usedriver
      {\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{default}}
      {\thefield{entrytype}}}%
  \usebibmacro{shorthandintro}}

This shows us that a different solution would be

\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{family-given}

\renewbibmacro*{cite:full}{%
  \usebibmacro{cite:full:citepages}%
  \global\toggletrue{cbx:fullcite}%
  \printtext[bibhypertarget]{%
    \usedriver
      {}
      {\thefield{entrytype}}}%
  \usebibmacro{shorthandintro}}

But of course that's longer. The effect is slightly different as this will only affect the name format in long citations and not anywhere else.

edit See the edit history for the pre-3.3 code if you are using an outdated version of biblatex. Cf. Biblatex 3.3 name formatting.

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