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Is there a simple way to get citations to appear as footnotes rather than as a section at the end of the article? Preferably using bibtex.

Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen
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As a BibTeX based solution, you can use the footbib package. As instructed in the manual, the compilation sequence is

  1. latex doc
  2. bibtex doc.fb
  3. latex doc
  4. latex doc

where doc is the name of your LaTeX document without the file extension. Of course, latex can be replaced with pdflatex, lualatex, or xelatex. The document states that further compilation rounds may be necessary for the result to stabilize. On the other hand, sometimes step 4 is not needed, as is the case with the following example.

Output of the example code

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[paperwidth=16cm,paperheight=6.5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{footbib}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
Citing a book~\footcite{book-full}.

\lipsum[1]

Another citation here~\footcite{whole-set}.
\footbibliographystyle{unsrt}
\footbibliography{xampl}
\end{document}
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  • Thanks for pointing out the need for the .fb extension. It still does not work together with the amsrefs package, it seems. – Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen Sep 11 '14 at 14:59
  • I get this error: The output routine of LaTeX changed since the current version of \`footbib'.\MessageBreak Since `footbib' patches this routine, using it may produce unexpected\MessageBreak results. Send a mail to \space Eric.Domenjoud@loria.fr \space to get a new version.\MessageBreak\MessageBreak Type \space X <return> \space to quit or cross your fingers and just type <return> – Marten Mar 17 '23 at 16:54