Footnotes with author-year inline citation

Question

Presently, I am using per-page footnotes for my citations using:

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage[style=verbose-trad3,autocite=footnote]{biblatex}
\bibliography{refs}
\begin{document}
This is some text \autocite{johnson}.
\end{document}

And refs.bib:

@article{johnson,
author = {Johnson, Rebecca},
journal = {Nature},
title = {{An effective method for something-or-other.}},
year = {2011}
}

Here's what I have now:

This was later shown to be an effective method¹. Following this effort, later models have more accurately described the data but have thus far not generated testable hypotheses.

Then in the footnotes for that page:

¹Johnson, Rebecca. "An effective method for something-or-other." Nature (2011).

Here's what I want

This was later shown to be an effective method [Johnson 2011]. Following this effort, later models have more accurately described the data but have thus far not generated testable hypotheses.

Then in the footnotes for that page:

Johnson, Rebecca. "An effective method for something-or-other." Nature (2011).

In other words, I can either get only either:

The footnote style I show above, with footnotes but with superscript numbers for the inline citation
An author-year inline citation, but with a bibliography section at the end instead of per-page footnotes.

However, I want [last-name year] to appear as a per-page footnote (without superscript numbering).

Thanks. I added a complete example. I'm not using Biber. – Douglas Myers-Turnbull Oct 25 '15 at 00:54 — Douglas Myers-Turnbull, Oct 25 '15 at 00:54

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 25 '15 at 06:39

We can use the style authoryear as a base and issue a fullcite in a special footnote with each cite.

\makeatletter
\newcommand{\plainbibfn}[1]{\bibfootnotewrapper{#1}}

\newbibmacro*{spfullfoot}{%
  \let\@makefntext\plainbibfn
  \footnotetext{%
    \fullcite{\thefield{entrykey}}}}

\DeclareCiteCommand{\brackcite}[\mkbibbrackets]
  {\usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \usebibmacro{cite}%
   \usebibmacro{spfullfoot}}
  {\multicitedelim}
  {\usebibmacro{postnote}}
\makeatother

The cite command \brackcite is essentially \parencite with square brackets and spfullfoot thrown in. spfullfoot redefines the footnote appearance locally and issues a fullcite.

MWE

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage[%
  style=authoryear,
  autocite=footnote,
  backend=biber,
]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}


\makeatletter
\newcommand{\plainbibfn}[1]{\bibfootnotewrapper{#1}}

\newbibmacro*{spfullfoot}{%
  \let\@makefntext\plainbibfn
  \footnotetext{%
    \fullcite{\thefield{entrykey}}}}

\DeclareCiteCommand{\brackcite}[\mkbibbrackets]
  {\usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \usebibmacro{cite}%
   \usebibmacro{spfullfoot}}
  {\multicitedelim}
  {\usebibmacro{postnote}}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
Lorem ipsum \brackcite{sigfridsson} dolor\footnote{sit} amet. 
Lorem ipsum \brackcite{sigfridsson} dolor\footnote{sit} amet.

\printbibliography
\end{document}

Maybe you are a bit happier with the result after adding

bibstyle=authortitle,

We can also only print the fullcite on the first cite, if we use citetracker=true and

\DeclareCiteCommand{\brackcite}[\mkbibbrackets]
  {\usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \usebibmacro{cite}%
   \ifciteseen{}{\usebibmacro{spfullfoot}}}
  {\multicitedelim}
  {\usebibmacro{postnote}}

Footnotes with author-year inline citation

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