biblatex-mla: Changing cited bibliographic entries in the footnotes

Question

I use this code to get cited refrences to be displayed in the footnotes:

\usepackage[style=mla,style=verbose]{biblatex}

When a reference material is first cited, it displays the full bibliographic content. This is fine for me. But when the same reference material is cited again (second or multiple times), it displays the following: footnote number as super-script, author's surname, title, page number. My Supervisor has told me to print only the following with materials cited second or multiple times: footnote number as super-script, author's surname, page number. I should omit the book title. How can this be achieved?

Answer 1

You cannot use two styles at the same time. I think that you just use the verbose style if you load biblatex as shown. If I did not get it wrong, the biblatex-mla style does not show the first citation in full.

Apart from that, biblatex-mla is based upon an outdated biblatex, and thus lacks the CiteCommand \smartcite. But even with this command, biblatex-mla will give only short citations in footnotes, no full references. See the following example:

\documentclass[ngerman]{scrartcl}
\listfiles
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{article,
  author = {Nachname, Vorname},
  title = {Titel des Zeitschriftenartikels},
  journaltitle = {Zeitschrift},
  date = {2006},
  volume = {6},
  pages = {19-75}
}
@book{book,
  author = {Buchautor, Hans-Wilhelm},
  title = {Irgendein Buch},
  location = {Buch am Wald},
  date = {2000}
}
\end{filecontents}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel,csquotes}

\usepackage[
  style=mla,
  autocite=footnote,
  backend=biber
]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\DeclareCiteCommand{\smartcite}[\iffootnote\mkbibparens\mkbibfootnote]
  {\usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \usebibmacro{cite:mla}}
  {}
  {\usebibmacro{postnote}}

\begin{document}
\autocite{article,book}

\cite{article,book}

\printbibliography
\end{document}