BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ biblatex | Formatting of References in Footnotes

[gandi]

I'd like to put the references in footnotes on the same page where they are used. I've found that \usepackage[style=authortitle]{biblatex} in the preamble together with \footfullcite achieves this. Alternatively one can use \usepackage[style=footnote-dw]{biblatex} together with the normal \cite.

However, I'd like to get full references in the footnotes, i.e. all authors (no "et al."), the article's title, the publication name, volume, pages, year.

Is there a (simple) way to achieve this using BibLaTeX?

[meho_r]

Default setting is 3 names and when there are more than three, they get truncated. You can change that by setting maxnames to desired number (e.g., to always have all names displayed, set it to a large number like 100). So, put the following as a package option:

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maxnames=100

For more infos, search biblatex manual for "maxnames".

[gandi]

Thanks, meho_r, that did the trick.

However the format of the reference footnotes is still not exactly what I want. I'd like to achieve the following two things:

(1)
Format of the footnotes:
<author1>, <author2>, <author3>, and <author4>, <journal name> (<year>), <vol>, <pages>
I do not want the article's title to show up (this was incorrect in my first post).

(2)
If the same paper is referenced twice, the second reference should refer to the first one (by "ibid.", or something similar), rather than repeating all the information in a second footnote.

I can get something that looks close to my desired format by using \usepackage[style=authortitle,maxnames=100]{biblatex} and \footfullcite{}. However this doesn't fulfill the second requirement. If, on the other hand, I write \usepackage[style=footnote-dw,maxnames=100]{biblatex} together with \cite{} I can achieve (2), but then the names are separated by "/" rather than ",".

Also, how do I suppress the article titles?

Many thanks in advance!

[cgnieder]

Regarding point (2) you might want to take a look at the definition of \notefullcite here. It uses \ExecuteBibliographyOptions{citetracker} and \ifciteseen to achieve what you ask for: create a footnote when the citation first appears.

Regards

[meho_r]

Or, for (2), use authortitle-ibid style.

[gandi]

@cgnieder: Thanks, this seems to be a working solution!

@meho_r: Is there a way to get the authortitle-ibid style to work with \footfullcite? I get nice "ibids" when I use \footcite, but then I only get the authors' names, nothing else. \footfullcite on the other hand gives the journal etc., but no "ibids".