Document Classes ⇒ [Beamer] Bibliography in a footnote

[duboismathieu]

Hello everybody,

In scientific talks it is common to have citations as a footnote on each slide.

I have heard about the footbib and jurabib packages but they don't seem to be compatible with beamer (at least without doing a lot of complicated things).

Is there a simple solution?

Thanks in advance,
Mathieu

[jporternj]

After working on this problem for a while this morning, the best solution I've come up with for citations in Beamer footnotes seems to be the bibentry package.

In your preamble, put:

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\usepackage{bibentry}

Somewhere in your document before you use any citations, put:

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\bibliographystyle{your_favorite_BibTeX_style}
\nobibliography{your_bib_file}

I put this on my first slide right before \titlepage; it doesn't seem to affect the output.

When you want to put a citation in one of your slides, put

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\footnote{\bibentry{BibTex_key_here}}

This code works if you don't want a references slide at the end of your talk (which seems a bit superfluous to me). If you want a references slide in addition to footnotes, the syntax is a bit different.

bibentry documentation: http://gking.harvard.edu/files/bibentry2.pdf
Working example with references at the end: http://stefaanlippens.net/bibentry

[duboismathieu]

Hello,

Thanks for the answer (and sorry for the delay I switched to something else and just returning to this).

I have tested the example on http://stefaanlippens.net/bibentry and it works fine. I have also transformed it to a simple example in beamer.

Nevertheless it doesn't work very well on my real example (beamer + some packages, some home-made macros (nothing fancy), large bibtex files).

If I use \nobibliography* there are some errors:

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Undefined control sequence.
<argument> ...hristensen, H.~I. (2008). \newblock 
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l.9 \end{frame}

But the PDF is produced.

I was not able to make the thing work with \nobibliography.

Do you have any idea?