In certain academic fields (mostly humanities), one must have references in footnotes. How to get them correctly using latex and bibtex? It took me hours to find a good answer on the web.
First of all, I lost some time trying the following packages, do not use:-
footbib -
inlinebib -
jurabib
The best solution is to use biblatex. Simple Latex coding, good default options.
\usepackage[style=footnote-dw]{biblatex}
% Package biblatex: '\bibliography' must be given in preamble.
\bibliography{memoire-bb}
\begin{document}
...
\cite{XXX}
...
%% this is required to also have a recap. list of references.
\printbibliography
\end{document}
On Debian/Ubuntu Linux, biblatex is available through ’‘$ apt-get install biblatex-dw’’. Thanks a lot to the creators and maintainers of [[http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex.html|biblatex]] and [[http://biblatex.dominik-wassenhoven.de/biblatex-dw.shtml|biblatex-dw]]!