Biblatex-chicago: \fullcite flips first and last name

Question

I'm writing an annotated bibliography which requires full in-line citations in Chicago format. However, when I use biblatex-chicago and \fullcite to list the full citation, it varies from the reference format used in the bibliography. Specifically, the author's name is presented First M Last instead of Last, First M. The rest of the citation is fine. Any ideas why this might be and/or how to fix it?

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[authordate,numbermonth=false,doi=false,%
            isbn=false,backend=biber]{biblatex-chicago}
\addbibresource{<bibfilename>.bib}
\begin{document}
Here comes the full citation that I will be using:

\fullcite{<key>}

It looks different from the reference that you will see below,%
as the first and last name are reversed.
\printbibliography

I have tried other advice regarding customization of \fullcite but most other articles deal with a different biblatex format such as APA. Any help greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

The authordate style from biblatex-chicago uses the standard definition of \fullcite from biblatex.def:

\DeclareCiteCommand{\fullcite}
  {\usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\usedriver
     {\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{default}}
     {\thefield{entrytype}}}
  {\multicitedelim}
  {\usebibmacro{postnote}}

\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{default} sets the sortname list in the default first-last format. Deleting this bit of code will give the same format as the bibliography. So you can add the following re-definition to your preamble:

\DeclareCiteCommand{\fullcite}
  {\usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\usedriver
     {}
     {\thefield{entrytype}}}
  {\multicitedelim}
  {\usebibmacro{postnote}}