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In the notes version of biblatex-chicago, the first citation gives a full citation in footnotes while any subsequent citations will only give the last name and short title. Is there any way to add the footnote number where the full citation is used?

So in the example:

\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage[notes]{biblatex-chicago}
\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{biblio.bib}
    @book{book1,
        title = {First Book title},
        author = {Author, The},
        location = {Place},
        publisher = {Publisher},
        date = {2020},
    }
    @book{book2,
        title = {Second Book title},
        author = {Author, Another},
        location = {Place},
        publisher = {Publisher},
        date = {2020},
    }
\end{filecontents}
\bibliography{biblio}
\begin{document}
Here is\footcite{book1} some\footcite{book2} text as filler.\footcite{book1}

\end{document}

The output of note 3 should be "Author, First book title (ref. 1)" instead of just "Author, First book title"

To get this to work properly, I would also require citations to be reset at the start of each chapter.

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  • I found out I could reset the citations per chapter by adding to option citereset=chapter when calling biblatex-chicago in case anyone else was wondering. \usepackage[notes,citereset=chapter]{biblatex-chicago}
    – cktai
    Feb 3, 2020 at 20:48

1 Answer 1

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The standard style verbose-note offers an option like this, so we can try and transplant its code into biblatex-chicago.

\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage[notes]{biblatex-chicago}

% Taken from verbose-note.cbx
\newtoggle{cbx:pageref}
\DeclareBibliographyOption[boolean]{pageref}[true]{%
  \settoggle{cbx:pageref}{#1}%
  \iftoggle{cbx:pageref}
    {\ExecuteBibliographyOptions{pagetracker}}
    {}}

\newbibmacro*{seenote}{%
  \printtext[parens]{%
    \bibstring{seenote}\addnbspace
    \ref{cbx@\csuse{cbx@f@\thefield{entrykey}}}%
    \iftoggle{cbx:pageref}
      {\ifsamepage{\the\value{instcount}}
                  {\csuse{cbx@f@\thefield{entrykey}}}
         {}
         {\addcomma\space\bibstring{page}\addnbspace
          \pageref{cbx@\csuse{cbx@f@\thefield{entrykey}}}}}
      {}}%
}

% Simplified version of chicago-notes.cbx's definition
% cf. also the definition in verbose-note.cbx
\renewbibmacro*{footcite:save}{%
  \iffootnote
    {\csxdef{cbx@f@\thefield{entrykey}}{\the\value{instcount}}%
     \label{cbx@\the\value{instcount}}}%
    {}}%

\makeatletter
% Just add a call to \usebibmacro{seenote} to the definition
\renewbibmacro*{cite:short}[1]{%
  \global\let\cms@pnsaved\undefined%
  \ifcsundef{cite:short:#1}%
    {\csuse{cite:short:book}}%
    {\csuse{cite:short:#1}}%
   \setunit{\addspace}%
   \usebibmacro{seenote}}%
\makeatother


\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@book{book1,
  title     = {First Book title},
  author    = {Author, The},
  location  = {Place},
  publisher = {Publisher},
  date      = {2020},
}
@book{book2,
  title     = {Second Book title},
  author    = {Author, Another},
  location  = {Place},
  publisher = {Publisher},
  date      = {2020},
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}
Here is\footcite{book1} some\footcite{book2} text as filler.\footcite{book1}
\end{document}

Author, First Book title (see note 1).

edit Updated for version 2020/04/20 of biblatex-chicago. See the edit history for code working with older versions.

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  • Thanks, this works fine. I just replaced the "\bibstring{seenote}" for "Ref." as that was the string I needed. Is there anywhere I can change the seenote bibstring so that it works more rigorously?
    – cktai
    Feb 3, 2020 at 20:46
  • 1
    @ChaokangTai You can change the bibstring with \DefineBibliographyStrings{english}{seenote = {ref\adddot}}.
    – moewe
    Feb 3, 2020 at 20:48
  • This used to work fine but now I suddenly get the error Bibliography macro 'cite:short:cms' undefined. What causes that?
    – cktai
    Jun 5, 2020 at 15:27
  • 1
    @cktai The recent update to biblatex-chicago has completely changed the definition of cite:short. Check out the edit, please.
    – moewe
    Jun 5, 2020 at 18:36
  • awesome that fixed it, thanks!
    – cktai
    Jun 5, 2020 at 23:31

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