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I'm using biblatex with biber as backend. I want to create citations for my figures by using a \cite command, but surpress any output of it in the caption of a figure or in the footnotes of the respective page.

Instead the citation (including a page number) should be printed only in the \listoffigures, ideally instead of the caption. I'm using the style verbose-ibid. I'd like the references in the list of figures to be printed in the abbreviated form of that style by default. The cited book should be added to the bibliography as well, if it wasn't cited before in the text.

What I'm doing so far:

Placing the \cite command inside [] of \caption[]{} to avoid any output of the citation on the page of the figure and to print the citation inside the list of figures. The cited book gets also added to the bibliography.

Everythings just fine except for the citation style inside the list of figures (always prints full citation).

Any ideas how to achieve the abbreviated citation style in list of figures by default? Is there an overall better approach to this than mine?

MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=verbose-ibid,hyperref=false]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{mwe.bib}

\begin{filecontents}{mwe.bib}
@Book{knuth1986,
    Title                    = {The \TeX book},
    Author                   = {Donald~Ervin Knuth},
    Publisher                = {Addison-Wesley},
    Year                     = {1986}
}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
    \centering
    \includegraphics{example-image-a}
    \caption[{\cite[][5]{knuth1986}}]{This is a caption}
\end{figure}

\printbibliography
\listoffigures
\end{document}
LinusDieLinse
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You can use the code for short citations from Moewe's answer here: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/236894/29873

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=verbose-ibid,hyperref=false]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{mwe.bib}

\newbibmacro*{shrtcite}{%
  \usebibmacro{cite:citepages}%
  \iffieldundef{shorthand}
    {\usebibmacro{cite:short}}
    {\usebibmacro{cite:shorthand}}}

\DeclareCiteCommand{\shrtcite}
  {\usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \usebibmacro{shrtcite}}
  {\multicitedelim}
  {\usebibmacro{cite:postnote}}


\begin{filecontents}{mwe.bib}
@Book{knuth1986,
    Title                    = {The \TeX book},
    Author                   = {Donald~Ervin Knuth},
    Publisher                = {Addison-Wesley},
    Year                     = {1986}
}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
    \centering
    \includegraphics{example-image-a}
    \caption[{\shrtcite[][5]{knuth1986}}]{This is a caption}
\end{figure}

\printbibliography
\listoffigures
\end{document}

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DG'
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