UK TeX FAQ -- question label bibinline

### Putting bibliography entries in text

This is a common requirement for journals and other publications in the humanities. Sometimes the requirement is for the entry to appear in the running text of the document, while other styles require that the entry appear in a footnote.

Options for entries in running text are

- The package bibentry, which puts slight restrictions on the format of entry that your `.bst` file generates, but is otherwise undemanding of the bibliography style.
- The package inlinebib, which requires that you use its inlinebib.bst. Inlinebib was actually designed for footnote citations: its expected use is that you place a citation inline as the argument of a `\``footnote` command.
- The package jurabib, which was originally designed for German law documents, and has comprehensive facilities for the manipulation of citations. The package comes with four bibliography styles that you may use: jurabib.bst, jhuman.bst and two Chicago-like ones.

Options for entries in footnotes are

- The package footbib, and
- Packages jurabib and inlinebib, again.

Note that jurabib does the job using LaTeX’s standard footnotes, whereas footbib creates its own sequence of footnotes. Therefore, in a document which has other footnotes, it may be advisable to use jurabib (or of course inlinebib), to avoid confusion of footnotes and foot-citations.

`bibentry.sty`
  Distributed with macros/latex/contrib/natbib (or browse the directory)
`footbib.sty`
  macros/latex/contrib/footbib (or browse the directory)
`inlinebib.sty`
  biblio/bibtex/contrib/inlinebib (or browse the directory)
`jurabib.sty`
  macros/latex/contrib/jurabib (or browse the directory)

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