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Is this possible to automatize? I would like everything that is in the footnotes (author(s), title, year of publication/edition) except page numbers or chapter specifications. If it could be made to work, do I have to write the footnotes in some uniform way?

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Do you use bibtex/biblatex for the footnote (via footcite)? if yes, afair there are way to generate more than one bibliography at the end of the document, based on a custom field for book/nobook. – Uwe Ziegenhagen Feb 21 at 2:40
I don't know; the thing I know I have is \usepackage{scrextend}, \deffootnote[1.8em]{0pt}{1.6em}{\makebox[1.8em][l]{\thefootnotemark.}}, and then I use it like this \footnote{Padron-McCarthy and Risch: {\em Databasteknik} (2005), chapters 5 and 11.}. – Emanuel Berg Feb 21 at 2:49
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So no bibTeX/bibLaTeX but manual references. You should consider to switch to bibLaTeX, makes things a lot easier if you have many literature references. Are you familiar with bibLaTeX? – Uwe Ziegenhagen Feb 21 at 2:54
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Okay, thought so. Check uweziegenhagen.de/?p=2501 for a simple document I just uploaded. It uses biblatex and biber. It's the best way once you made the little learning curve. To separate the bibliography (just one for books) check out texblog.org/2012/10/22/multiple-bibliographies-with-biblatex – Uwe Ziegenhagen Feb 21 at 3:02
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It works well with two bilbiographies at the end, one for everything, one for just the books. I updated the blog entry and go back to sleep now. – Uwe Ziegenhagen Feb 21 at 3:11
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What you are looking for is simply a bibliography, which is one of LaTeX's specialties. Nowadays a combination of biblatexand biber should be the combination to cover all requirements. Here is a simple example showing the basic steps:

  1. Create the bib file: Create a file myliterature.bib in a directory and put in:

    @Article{weinhold,
author = {F. Weinhold and C.R. Landis},
title = {Natural Bond Orbitals and Extensions of Localized Bonding Concept},
year ={2001},
journal = {Chemistry in Europe: Research and Practice in Europe},
volume = {2},
number = {2},
pages = {91-104}}

    There are dedicated tools to manage these bib-files, e.g. JabRef or Citavi, have a look at them in case you have a lot of references.

  2. Create the TeX file:

    Create a file test.tex in the same directory as the bib-file with the following content:

    \documentclass[11pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}

\usepackage[style=authortitle-icomp,backend=biber]{biblatex}%

\addbibresource{myliterature.bib}

\begin{document}

\cite{weinhold}

\clearpage

\parencite{weinhold}

\clearpage

\footcite[12]{weinhold}

\clearpage

\smartcite[12, smart]{weinhold}

\clearpage

\citeauthor{weinhold}

\clearpage

\citetitle{weinhold}

\clearpage

\citeyear{weinhold}

\nocite{*}

\printbibliography 

\end{document}

  3. Compile the files

    pdflatex test
biber test
pdflatex test

    and enjoy the final bibliography. There are lots of resources, I recommend you the biblatex manual and a Google search on biblatexto get more insights, how it works and how you can influence the design of the references.

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Thank you, I fixed it. – Uwe Ziegenhagen Feb 22 at 17:40

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