How can I list references from BibTeX file in-line with commentary?

Question

I would like to take the full citation of a reference in my BibTeX file and write commentary in-line after it. A \fullcitation{id} command would be perfect. I would like to use it as:

\fullcitation{id1}

This paper talks about A with applications to B.

\fullcitation{id2}

This paper considers how C affects A.

Whenever the \fullcitation{id} command appears, I want it to be replaced with the full reference, including authors, title, journal, and date.

Is this possible?

Answer 1

If you want full citations in the main text, then you can use the bibentry package. Distributed as part of natbib. Use it as:

\nobibliography{bibfile1,bibfile2} % or starred if also using \bibliography{...} 
See \bibentry{id1} for a pedagogical introduction or \bibentry{id2} for more
technical details.

See also this FAQ answer.

Or perhaps you just want to add annotations to a regular list-style bibliography (i.e., a section of it's own). For this purpose, some bibliography styles will honour an annote field, and otherwise you can usually abuse the note field to achieve something similar.

Answer 2

Here's how to do it using biblatex:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{biblatex}

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{Bli74,
  author = {Blinder, Alan S.},
  year = {1974},
  title = {The economics of brushing teeth},
  journaltitle = {Journal of Political Economy},
  volume = {82},
  number = {4},
  pages = {887--891},
}
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}

This paper is really cool:

\fullcite{Bli74}.

\printbibliography

\end{document}

Answer 3

You have to use \nobibliography, \usepackage{bibentry} and \bibentry{foo}. Here you are an example:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{bibentry}
\nobibliography*

\begin{document}

\section{Introduction}

Look ma, inline bibtex entries:

\begin{itemize}
\item \bibentry{michael}
\item \bibentry{elvis}
\end{itemize}

\section{And now for something completely different}
Lorem ipsum yada yada,
also see \cite{britney}, 
yada yada, and \cite{marilyn} too.

\bibliographystyle{alpha}
\bibliography{test_bibentry.bib}

\end{document}

For the details see this webpage: https://www.stefaanlippens.net/bibentry/

Additionally, if you don't want the section References to be shown, you could substitute \bibliography{test_bibentry.bib} by \nobibliography{test_bibentry.bib}