Placing bibtex entries inline

Question

I would like to place the name and the title of a BibTeX entry inline.

Something like:

[JD2012] John Doe, Title of Paper.

Any Idea?

Answer 1

Biblatex has two macros called \citeauthor and \citetitle which one can use. You can either just write them one after the other or define yourself a new command like the mycite in my code example below:

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{test,
    author={A. Uthor},
    title = {A neat paper},
    journal = {Some random Journal},
    year = {2013}
}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=alphabetic]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\newcommand{\mycite}[1]{\cite{#1} \citeauthor{#1} \citetitle{#1}}

\begin{document}
\cite{test} \citeauthor{test} \citetitle{test}

\mycite{test}

\printbibliography
\end{document}

The only missing point is the first name of the Author but maybe you can live with that.

Answer 2

in the uk tex faq, the bibentry and inlinebib packages are suggested; there may be restrictions on what .bst you can use. biblatex can do this as well, i think (an expert may be able to suggest how ... i'm not one of those).