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I must ask for your help despite my best efforts to find some similar solved problem online.

I am trying to get a full reference in the footnote using the \footfullcite{} commmand linking to a reference I have previously entered in the \thebibliography section. However I'm only managing to get a footnote written as the \bibitem item. I've read several times that using bibdesk would be easier, but I want full control of my references, and I want to access it in my main.tex this is why I want to stick with thebibliography.

My code goes something like (I use the memoir advanced template on MacTeX)

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,article]{memoir} 

\usepackage[backend=bibtex,style=authoryear,natbib=true]{biblatex} 

\begin{document}

my text here \footfullcite{ref1}

\begin{thebibliography}{}
\bibitem{ref1} Name (year), Title, Town, Edition
\end{thebibliography} 

\end{document}

And this gives me:

Output

when I would like to have the full reference as I have entered it in my bibliography, with author (year), title, town, edition.

Bonus question, I would like to make a reference out of the caption of a figure, although when I have done so, the superscript always seem to be misaligned on the text. Any thought on that ?

I thank you very much in advance for your kind help !

Antoine
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The idea behind using biblatex (or bibtex) is to not manually format your bibliography.

Automatic

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,article]{memoir} 

\usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true]{biblatex} 
\addbibresource{test.bib}

\begin{document}

my text here \footfullcite{knuth}

\printbibliography

\end{document}

with a file test.bin of the format

@article{knuth,
  author       = {Knuth, Donald E.},
  title        = {Some title},
  date         = 1984,
  location     = {Nice city},
  journal      = {good journal},
  volume       = {42}
}

Keep the manual formatting

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,article]{memoir} 

\newcommand{\refa}{Name (year), Title, Town, Edition}

\begin{document}

my text here\footnote{\refa}

\begin{thebibliography}{}
\bibitem{refa} \refa
\end{thebibliography} 

\end{document}
samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz
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  • Thank you very much for your help Sam, I'll try using a .bib file sometime but the manual formatting allows me to choose my own citation system (i.e. the French one, which is a bit different from the American citation norms) without having to understand fully how BibDesk work). Also, my thesis will be read in paper and not in pdf, so having fullfootcite allows for much smoother reading. Thanks again ! – Antoine Jan 17 '18 at 22:26
  • @Antoine biblatex is very customisable - it can very probably be adjusted to whatever citation style you want to use. – samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz Jan 17 '18 at 22:42
  • I'm sorry but this still isn't working, I've copied your example and did a similar .bib file, but all I get in the footnote is "knuth" and not the full bibliographic reference. – Antoine Jan 18 '18 at 08:51
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    @Antoine Did you run biber? see https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/13509/biblatex-in-a-nutshell-for-beginners – samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz Jan 18 '18 at 09:12
  • @samcartr Yes, I've changed the package to \usepackage[backend=biber,style=authoryear,natbib=true]{biblatex} and in TeXshop's - preferences - engine, I've set the BibTex engine to biber – Antoine Jan 18 '18 at 14:23
  • @Antoine looks correct, but did you also run biber? I am not familiar with texshop, but it seems the shortkey is Command-Shift-B, see https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/154778/36296 for details. – samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz Jan 18 '18 at 14:46