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I am a complete beginner with Latex so please bare with me...

I am trying to use the chicago package (\usepackage{chicago} ) in order to reference other papers in mine. Does Latex do all the referencing on its own or do I have to be the one writing each footnote manually?

for example:

Is it possible to type something like

...it is a temporary condition and can be changed\footnote{\cite{Chua1999}}...

and latex will automatically create the correct full reference (for the first time the paper was referenced)? Such as the note form in http://library.sc.edu/pubserv/chicago.pdf

Alex Styl
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That's easy with biblatex-chicago package and the \footfullcite command, as mentioned in Bernard's comment.

Here is an example

\begin{filecontents*}{mybiblio.bib}
@article{Chua1999,
  author = {Chua},
  title = {A title},
  journal = {A Journal},
  year = {1999},
}\end{filecontents*}

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[backend=biber,authordate-trad]{biblatex-chicago}


\addbibresource{mybiblio.bib}


\begin{document}


...it is a temporary condition and can be changed\footfullcite{Chua1999}...


\printbibliography


\end{document}

Output (footnote)

enter image description here

P.S. It has to be compiled with

pdflatex file

biber file

pdflatex file

pdflatex file

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karlkoeller
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  • biblatex-chicago recommends using \autocite by default; then the program can figure out whether it should be a full citation. – musarithmia Jan 08 '15 at 14:05
  • I tried using your example to see if it works. I copy paste it in the texmaker editor and do a PDFlatex -> BibTex -> PDFlatex -> PDFlatex -> View PDF, but the footnote writes 'Chua1999' instead – Alex Styl Jan 11 '15 at 19:01
  • @AlexStyl Biber, not BibTeX. If you want to use BibTeX, change backend=biber to backend=bibtex. – karlkoeller Jan 11 '15 at 20:22
  • @karlkoeller it does seem to build properly and the cite seems to be okay, but now in the start of the document there is a line saying "music,review,video|eventyearorigyear year urlyear" (no chances to your example done) – Alex Styl Jan 11 '15 at 21:58
  • @AlexStyl My bad. biblatex-chicago doesn't accept bibtex as backend. You have to run biber instead... – karlkoeller Jan 11 '15 at 22:04
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    @AlexStyl See http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/154751/27635 to see how to run biber from your editor. – karlkoeller Jan 11 '15 at 22:06
  • I set up my texmaker to build with biber and it worked flowlessly. Thank you @karlkoeller! – Alex Styl Jan 14 '15 at 00:33