I am using a modified verbose-ibid
citestyle (as suggested here). If I use \cite
, it won't use the short version, and that might be good, but right know I need to use the short version (cite:short
). So how would I use \cite
and force the short form?
[Tex/LaTex] Use short form with \cite
biblatex
Best Answer
Since captions (and floats in general) are rarely considered part of the text flow (after all a float is quite volatile in its placement and it is even more difficult to predict when exactly a reader might look at a float), the trackers are disabled within those environments.
The
biblatex
documentation states in §4.11.5 Trackers in Floats and TOC/LOT/LOF, p. 232So this behaviour is indeed intended, if you want to force short citations instead, you can define an "enforcer"
If you use this within a caption (e.g.
\caption{\captshort\cite{foo}}
), short citations will be forced.Alternatively, we can define a new cite command
\shrtcite
that always prints the short form and use that insteadMWE