[texhax] Citations as footnotes?

[Robin Fairbairns]

> I was wondering if there is a way to place citations as footnotes. For 
> example, if you had two or three citations on a page, those citations 
> would appear on that page itself (assuming that was the first 
> citation). Subsequent citations in later pages would refer to the 
> ``footnote" number on the earlier page.
> 
> I have seen this done in some books, but browsing around I could not 
> find a way to do this with
> the standard bibliography styles. I have the latest distribution of 
> teTex.
> 
> Any help or pointers in this regard would be greatly appreciated.

a trivial search of the archive turns up footbib

the subject also appears in the faq:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=bibinline