footcite doesn´t show full name of author

Question

I use TexMaker to write my thesis. I have a Bibliography in the end of my thesis, and inside the text, I also want to show footcite, but if I use \footcite, in footnote it only shows only last name of one author, but I need both authors´ full name. How can I solve this?

And the website link in the citation is too long, how to make line feed before a text end? As the website link goes out of the width of my defined text width.

Thank you

My script:

    \documentclass[12pt]{article}
    \usepackage[english]{babel}
    \usepackage[a4paper, text={16.5cm, 25.2cm}, centering]{geometry}
    \usepackage[sfdefault]{ClearSans}
    \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
    \setlength{\parskip}{1.2ex}
    \setlength{\parindent}{0em}
    \usepackage{filecontents}
    \usepackage[backend=bibtex,
            style=authortitle-comp,
            natbib=true, 
            ]{biblatex}
    \begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@Electronic{unintentional,
  Title                    = {Accidents or Unintentional Injuries},
  Author                   = {Altiok,Tayfur; Melamed, Benjamin},
  Note                     = {[Accessed on August 10, 2016]. Available on: \textcolor{blue}{http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/accidental-injury.htm}}
}

    \end{filecontents}
    \addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
    \addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
    \begin{document}

    here is just a test \cite{unintentional} .

\printbibliography
   \end{document}

It is not unusual to give only last names in citations (\footcite and friends), often the full name is only given in the bibliography. Please note that Author = {Altiok,Tayfur; Melamed, Benjamin}, is wrong, see How should I type author names in a bib file?. — moewe, Dec 14 '16 at 07:58
... Since you use biblatex you should do what you do with your note field (Note = {[Accessed on August 10, 2016]. Available on: \textcolor{blue}{http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/accidental-injury.htm}}) as follows: urldate = {2016-08-10}, url={http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/accidental-injury.htm}. biblatex will take care of everything else. — moewe, Dec 14 '16 at 07:59
I realise you have been told some of that before: http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/340310/35864. Maybe you should have a look at http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/13509/35864 as well as one of the introductory guides suggested there. I happen to like http://dag.at.ifi.uio.no/public/doc/biblatex-guide.pdf — moewe, Dec 14 '16 at 08:03
@samcarter I just noted you deleted your answer. I thought you might like edit your answer with the suggestions in my comment. — moewe, Dec 14 '16 at 18:41
@moewe I also had other reasons to delete my answer, but please feel free to convert your comment into an answer. I will certainly upvote your non-hacky solution! — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz, Dec 14 '16 at 22:08
@samcarter OK, then. I have added a solution that I deem non-hacky. — moewe, Dec 15 '16 at 09:25

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

You should give author names in the format explained in How should I type author names in a bib file?. That is, separate all authors by and. Furthermore, you should use the url and urldate field instead of note.

@online{unintentional,
  title   = {Accidents or Unintentional Injuries},
  author  = {Altiok, Tayfur and Melamed, Benjamin},
  url     = {http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/accidental-injury.htm},
  urldate = {2016-08-10},
}

What you then want comes own to changing the labelname format, which is used in citations, and sortname, which is used in the bibliography, to

\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{family-given}
\DeclareNameAlias{labelname}{family-given}

Then you can get semicolons with

\renewcommand*{\multinamedelim}{\addsemicolon\space}
\renewcommand*{\finalnamedelim}{\multinamedelim}

Then

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=authortitle-comp]{biblatex}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@online{unintentional,
  title   = {Accidents or Unintentional Injuries},
  author  = {Altiok, Tayfur and Melamed, Benjamin},
  url     = {http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/accidental-injury.htm},
  urldate = {2016-08-10},
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{family-given}
\DeclareNameAlias{labelname}{family-given}

\renewcommand*{\multinamedelim}{\addsemicolon\space}
\renewcommand*{\finalnamedelim}{\multinamedelim}

\begin{document}
\cite{unintentional}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

gives

Thank you for your answer. I have tried this solution, but in bibliography, it comes out " AltiokA.BenjaminB.Tayfur; MelamedT.M" as author name. What can be the reason for this? Can you add the complete script, so I can check what was wrong from my script? Thank you! — Vivian, Dec 16 '16 at 22:34
@Vivian I have added a full MWE. Did you get any errors or warnings in when you tried the solution? — moewe, Dec 18 '16 at 17:07
Thank you very much! I tried your complete solution, but still have the same problem : author name is not correct, still get "AltiokA.BenjaminB.Tayfur; MelamedT.M"". And I tried again without labelname and sortname, then it works in bibliography, but not in cite — Vivian, Dec 19 '16 at 21:01
@Vivian As you can see it works for me. Maybe your biblatex is not up to date (the solution above will work for biblatex >= 3.3, the current version is 3.7). But you should get errors and warnings in that case. Of course if you leave out code, the output will not be as expected. — moewe, Dec 20 '16 at 08:34

footcite doesn´t show full name of author

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