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Is there a way to 

\footcite{key}

or

\fullfootcite{key}

such that in the text there are no upper index numbers but numbers enclosed in brackets? Correspondingly, the footnote citation should begin with (e.g.)

[1]

and not with an upper index number.

rehctawrats
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    Would that number then be the normal footnote number or the label number of the citation in a numeric context? What style are you using? – moewe Mar 21 '16 at 12:18
  • It would be the normal footnote number. In my current document I did not set any style. In preamble: \usepackage[doi=false and other options alike]{biblatex}, \bibliography{mybibfile}, \renewcommand*{\thefootnote}{\arabic{footnote}} (to override the result of some huge template file which is used by \input). In the document I am using \footfullcite{key}. – rehctawrats Mar 21 '16 at 12:34
  • And what do you do about normal footnotes? Do they have the same counter, but remain little superscripts? Or should they come down and be wrapped in brackets as well? – moewe Mar 21 '16 at 12:41
  • It does not matter what happens to normal footnotes since I am not intending to use any. – rehctawrats Mar 21 '16 at 12:54
  • Aha, but then you could use the code from http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/274185/35864 or http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/20819/35864. – moewe Mar 21 '16 at 12:59
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    That looks good. Thank you and sorry for my bad research. – rehctawrats Mar 21 '16 at 13:13
  • With things like this it is really hard to find the right terms to search let alone duplicate questions, so don't worry about it. Let me know which of those answers worked for you or if you need something changed. (But then it would be helpful to show a MWE of what you have so far.) – moewe Mar 21 '16 at 13:19
  • Weird behavior: 1) If one changes document type of the MWE in http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/274185/35864 to beamer, it says test.tex:0: name{cite.0@mybibkey} has been referenced but does not exist, replaced by a fixed one. 2) if I paste that code into my large document with big \inputs (template at my office), it works somehow works but the footnotes' numbers are in parentheses. The in-text citations have correct brackets. – rehctawrats Mar 21 '16 at 14:27
  • The warnings are just because you don't have a \printbibliography, a click on the citation label would take you there. The round brackets is because biblatex can't detect footnotes with beamer as a short work-around add \DeclareFieldFormat{labelnumberwidth}{[#1]}. – moewe Mar 21 '16 at 16:30
  • Now I'm almost there. Still two issues: 1) compiler says Patching footnotes failed. 2) inline brackets have leading spaces, e.g. [ 13]. Footnote brackets look nice. – rehctawrats Mar 22 '16 at 09:57
  • You can ignore the "patching footnotes failed" warning (it is the one I referred to above, biblatex will not be able to detect that you are in a footnote, but that is not important for us any more). The code doesn't give me spaces in the citations. Did you copy the exact code from the other question or did you modify anything? – moewe Mar 22 '16 at 10:08
  • Solved but not understood: each of the three clear commands in \AtEveryCitekey{ \clearfield{month} \clearfield{type} \clearlist{institution} } in the preamble adds a blank both in the inline brackets ([ 13] (only one space shown here due to stackexchange limitations)) and between the footnote brackets and the actual citation text (author names, in my case). – rehctawrats Mar 22 '16 at 11:02
  • I assume the \AtEveryCitekey{ \clearfield{month} \clearfield{type} \clearlist{institution} } has line breaks in your actual code? If so you need to end the line with % to make sure that no spurious white space is introduced. See here. – moewe Mar 22 '16 at 13:42

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