Putting citation text on same slide with LaTeX Beamer

Question

By default, using \cite in the Beamer class of LaTeX places the actual citation information at the end of the presentation on a separate slide containing the bibliography. How does one get the citation information, instead, on the same slide as the citation (the expected, courteous practice for most presentations)?

Answer 1

If you use the biblatex package, you can insert a complete bibliographic entry with the \fullcite command.

Unfortunately biblatex is not yet installed by default in TeX Live/MiKTeX because the author wants it to be completely stable before it sees widespread use. However, it's already very very useable (I've been using it for a couple of years) and I wouldn't hesitate recommending to install and use it.

Answer 2

I have used the bibentry style for this (part of natbib), which just allows you to write \bibentry{key} which directly expands to the full bibliographic entry.