13

Is there a way to specify the page number to follow a footnote citation, so that I get something like, e.g.:

John Doe, LaTeX Manual (New York: Smith Publishing, 2003), 33.

I would like to be able to also cite the same book, but page 45 (e.g.) in a different place.

I'm using the biblatex-chicago style, notes and bibliography version.

Alan Munn
  • 218,180
AVB
  • 681

1 Answers1

15

You should read the biblatex documentation on how to use its \cite commands. All the \cite commands (\cite, \footcite, \parencite, \textcite) and their variants allow for two optional arguments: a prenote and a postnote. The syntax is:

\cite[<prenote>][<postnote>]{<key>}

The page number is part of the postnote, so to get your example, you would type:

\footcite[][33]{Doe2003}

assuming Doe2003 is your cite key.

Alan Munn
  • 218,180
  • 4
    The first [ ] in Alan Munn's answer can be omitted: if any \cite command gets a single optional argument, it will take it for a postnote. Thus \cite[p. 37]{mybook} and \cite[][p. 37]{mybook} will both render to [7, p. 37] (or something similar depending on your bibliography style). – episanty May 02 '11 at 05:44