[Tex/LaTex] What bibliography style should I use in a presentation

Question

I am using authoryear (from biblatex) style for articles. However, for beamer presentations, this style is not useful. Indeed, the complete references are cited at the end of the presentation ; so I have severals slides with only references. I will not take 5 min at the end of my presentation to allow everyone to read my bibliography (it makes no sense).

If I decide to use a verbose style which will put references in footnotes, I have other problems : Many footnotes eats the space and they are too tiny to allow a good reading…

Does someone is aware of a bibliography style designed for beamer presentation?

Answer 1

This is the template, I often use. It is essentially beamers default, but with a triangle as list symbol instead of the document icon.

% arara: pdflatex
% arara: bibtex
% arara: pdflatex
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{literature.bib}
@book{van2012latex,
  title={\LaTeX\ and Friends},
  author={{van Dongen}, R.C.},
  isbn={978-3-642-23816-1},
  lccn={2011945089},
  year={2012},
  publisher={Springer}
}

@book{mittelbach2004latex,
  title={The \LaTeX\ Companion},
  author={Mittelbach, F. and Goossens, M.},
  isbn={978-0-133-38764-3},
  year={2004},
  publisher={Pearson Education}
}

@book{knuth2004texbook,
  title={The \TeX book},
  author={Knuth, D.E.},
  year={2004},
  publisher={Addison-Wesley}
}
\end{filecontents*}
\setbeamertemplate{bibliography item}[triangle]
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}{Further Reading}
    \raggedright
    \nocite{*}
    \bibliographystyle{plain}
    \bibliography{literature}
\end{frame}
\end{document}