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I am currently switching to the chicago citation style due to how the assignments are being done. That meant I needed to use the biblatex-chicago package which I thought worked great in the start, but after a bit of troubleshooting I couldn't not find the answer of why it is doing this.

The problem is, if I cite an author more than once with \parencite[page][author] it works fine the first time, next time it just returns the page in parenthesis. I've tried almost every option in the documentation.

This is my current package options

\usepackage[backend=biber,
    authordate,
    sorting=ynt,
    isbn=false,
    hyperref=true,
    url=false,
    doi=false,
    eprint=false,
    hyperref=true,
    sortcites=true]{biblatex-chicago}

Is it normal behavior for this style or am I missing something? I've (tried) attached a small MWE here:

\documentclass[11pt,openright,oneside,british,a4paper]{memoir}

%  Packages
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{import}
\usepackage[colorlinks=true, allcolors=blue]{hyperref}

\usepackage[backend=biber,
    loccittracker=true,
    abbreviate=false,
    citetracker=false,
    authordate,
    sorting=ynt,
    isbn=false,
    hyperref=true,
    url=false,
    doi=false,
    eprint=false,
    hyperref=true,
    sortcites=true]{biblatex-chicago}

\addbibresource{bibliography.bib}

\title{Your Paper}
\author{Me}

%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\begin{document}
\maketitle

test \parencite[539]{LConsoli2006}  and then \parencite[540]{LConsoli2006}

\end{document}

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  • The biblatex option hyperref=true, is usually not more useful than the default hyperref=auto,. Both settings will produce links if and only if hyperref is loaded. The only difference is that hyperref=true, will throw a warning when hyperref is not loaded, hyperref=auto, will not produce a warning in that case. I would drop hyperref=true, here (you even have it twice). sorting=ynt, will give you a sorting result that is probably incompatible with the expected CMoS bibliography sorting.
    – moewe
    Dec 10, 2021 at 6:55

2 Answers 2

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Of course you always find the answer when you've posted and sat with it for a long time.

I am so sorry for the inconvenience.

The answer to this problem was simply to add ibidtracker=falseas an option. I also found great resource from this answer By moewe (thanks!).

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biblatex-chicago has an option called noibid to disable the style's ibidem feature. It works on a slightly different level than just disabling the tracker, but should in principle produce the same output.

\documentclass[11pt,openright,oneside,british,a4paper]{memoir}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{import}
\usepackage[colorlinks=true, allcolors=blue]{hyperref}

\usepackage[
  backend=biber,
  authordate,
  noibid,
  sorting=ynt,
  sortcites=true
  abbreviate=false,
  citetracker=false,
  isbn=false,
  url=false,
  doi=false,
  eprint=false,
]{biblatex-chicago}

\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\begin{document}
test \parencite[539]{sigfridsson}  and then \parencite[540]{sigfridsson}

\end{document}

test (Sigfridsson and Ryde 1998, 539) and then (Sigfridsson and Ryde 1998, 540)

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