BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Citations format

[gserravidal]

Hello,

I am writing an article and I have a problem with citations. In spite of having found many packages which offer several possibilities (e.g. custom-bib or flexbib) I have found no way to get my citations with the format I wish. I would like to get references like this (in a footnote):

Books:
N. SURNAME, \italics{Title} (Editor, City Year), pages

Articles:
N. SURNAME, "Title", \italics{Journal} Number (Year), pages

(I'm not talking about the bibliographic list but about the references in the text themselves.)

When some book or article is cited more than once, from the second time it is cited only the first word of the title should be written, followed by "..., pages".

I would appreciate any advise you could give me.

Thank you.

[kaiserkarl13]

There is a package called footbib that is designed to make references as footnotes. That, combined with an appropriate bibliography style file, might help you.

You can make your own .bst file with \latex makebst, by the way, but that will only change the style of the entries, not where they are.

[cgnieder]

I'm just wondering: there is no \italics{} command in LaTeX but I believe ConTeXt has \italic{}. Does this mean you're using ConTeXt or that you just made the \italics command up? Or have you \let it to \textit?

Regards

[gserravidal]

Thanks for your replies.

kaiserkarl13, I'll have a look at footbib. As regards "makebst", I have already tried it but I fear it customizes only the format of references, not citations in the text. Is this right or am I missing something?

cgnieder: I wrote "\italics" but actually I meant "\textit", of course.

[kaiserkarl13]

You are correct: the bibliography style changes the style of the references, not the citations. To change the citations, use footbib, natbib, cite, etc.