I am working on my PhD thesis and am using biblatex
. Now I have several books by the same author with exactly the same title (but different publication years). When I cite these works, there is no way for the reader to know to which work I am referring.
I realise that I could edit their shorttitle
fields to include the date, but then the date gets italicised together with the title. I could then de-italicise it, etc. etc. But I was hoping that there was a simpler/smarter/more elegant solution.
Attached is a minimal example:
\documentclass[11pt,oneside]{memoir}
\usepackage[
style=authortitle,
hyperref,
useprefix=false,
maxnames=2,
firstinits=true,
sortcites=true,
uniquename=init,
abbreviate=true
]{biblatex}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@book{tom1,
author = {Author, A.},
year = {2001},
title = {This is a very long title that I definitely do not want in a footnote},
shorttitle = {A better title},
}
@book{tom2,
author = {Author, A.},
year = {1999},
title = {This is a very long title that I definitely do not want in a footnote},
shorttitle = {A better title},
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{document}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\footnote{\Cite{tom1}, \Cite{tom2}.}
\end{document}