footnote goes over margin

Question

The second line of the footnote goes over the left margin.

How can I achieve that the second line is in a line with the first line?

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}

@incollection{incollection,
    author       = {Peter Farindon}, 
    title        = {The title of the work},
    booktitle    = {The title of the book},
    publisher    = {The name of the publisher},
    year         = 1993,
    pages     ={10},
}


\end{filecontents}

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=verbose]{biblatex}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}


\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{document}
    Let's cite!  \footcite{incollection} 
    \printbibliography
\end{document}

Seems related https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/467022/customize-second-citation-for-books-articles-incollection — Johannes_B, Dec 23 '18 at 10:40
No, the question I asked there was about another issue then the answer given. However, I found it interesting so I posted a new question. — heidil, Dec 23 '18 at 10:47
So it is related. You already have the answer and are just waiting for Markus to post it here. So people don't have to work on this question, as the work is already done. — Johannes_B, Dec 23 '18 at 10:51

Mensch · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-23T11:17:41.443

You can define the layout of the footnote with the following code added to the preamble:

\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\@makefntext}[1]{%
  \setlength{\parindent}{0pt}%
  \begin{list}{}{%
    \setlength{\labelwidth}{1.5em}% <===================================
    \setlength{\leftmargin}{\labelwidth}%
    \setlength{\labelsep}{3pt}%
    \setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}%
    \setlength{\parsep}{0pt}%
    \setlength{\topsep}{0pt}%
%   \setlength{\rightmargin}{0.2\textwidth}%
    \footnotesize}%
  \item[\@makefnmark\hfil]#1%
  \end{list}%
}
\makeatother

The command \setlength{\labelwidth}{1.5em} defines the length given to the foornote number you can change for your needs ...

The complete code

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}

@incollection{incollection,
    author       = {Peter Farindon}, 
    title        = {The title of the work},
    booktitle    = {The title of the book},
    publisher    = {The name of the publisher},
    year         = 1993,
    pages     ={10},
}


\end{filecontents}

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=verbose]{biblatex}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}

\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\@makefntext}[1]{%
  \setlength{\parindent}{0pt}%
  \begin{list}{}{%
    \setlength{\labelwidth}{1.5em}% <===================================
    \setlength{\leftmargin}{\labelwidth}%
    \setlength{\labelsep}{3pt}%
    \setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}%
    \setlength{\parsep}{0pt}%
    \setlength{\topsep}{0pt}%
%   \setlength{\rightmargin}{0.2\textwidth}%
    \footnotesize}%
  \item[\@makefnmark\hfil]#1%
  \end{list}%
}
\makeatother


\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{document}
    Let's cite!  \footcite{incollection} 
    \printbibliography
\end{document}

gives you the result:

If you do not want the second line indentend on the left change \setlength{\leftmargin}{\labelwidth} for example to \setlength{\leftmargin}{0pt} ...

Because you are writing in German please consider to use normal footnote numbers (have a look into the German Duden). To get that please add the line

\renewcommand{\@makefnmark}{\hbox{\normalfont\@thefnmark}}

after \makeatletter ...

Then you get with the complete code

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}

@incollection{incollection,
    author       = {Peter Farindon}, 
    title        = {The title of the work},
    booktitle    = {The title of the book},
    publisher    = {The name of the publisher},
    year         = 1993,
    pages     ={10},
}


\end{filecontents}

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=verbose]{biblatex}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}

\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\@makefnmark}{\hbox{\normalfont\@thefnmark}} % <==========
\renewcommand{\@makefntext}[1]{%
  \setlength{\parindent}{0pt}%
  \begin{list}{}{%
    \setlength{\labelwidth}{1.5em}% <===================================
    \setlength{\leftmargin}{\labelwidth}%
    \setlength{\labelsep}{3pt}%
    \setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}%
    \setlength{\parsep}{0pt}%
    \setlength{\topsep}{0pt}%
%   \setlength{\rightmargin}{0.2\textwidth}%
    \footnotesize}%
  \item[\@makefnmark\hfil]#1%
  \end{list}%
}
\makeatother


\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{document}
    Let's cite!  \footcite{incollection} 
    \printbibliography
\end{document}

the result

How does the german footnote differ from the standard footnote? — heidil, Dec 24 '18 at 13:03
@heidil The footnote number in the footnote is not superscripted, it is in normal font size and the footnote uses an hanging format, that means the text of the footnote is set justified. Please see the red arrow in the last image ... — Mensch, Dec 24 '18 at 13:08
Funny, I didn't know that there's a difference between german footnote and the standard. I tried your code out, but now there is a huge gap between the foonotes and I cannot imagine that this is the german standard. But probably it would be a good idea to open a new question just on german footnotes. What do you think? — heidil, Jan 01 '19 at 11:15
@heidil Please ask a new question, show the code you used and show us a screenshot with the gap. Then we can help you ... — Mensch, Jan 01 '19 at 15:59

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 23 '18 at 11:26

You could use the package footmisc package

\usepackage[flushmargin]{footmisc}

There are two options flushmarginand hang

flushmargin

This option is as option marginal, but sets the footnote marker flush with, but just inside the margin from, the text of the footnote.

and

hang

This option sets the footnote mark flush with the margin, and makes the body of the footnote hang at an indentation of \footnotemargin (if that is a positive distance), or the width of the marker (if \footnotemargin≤ 0). The option code itself leaves \footnotemargin at its default value of 1.8em. The footnote itself may of course be longer than one paragraph; if so, the paragraphs will be separated by the vertical space specified by \hangfootparskip, and the second and subsequent paragraphs are indented by \hangfootparindent. Default values are:

e.g.

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@Article{article,
    author  = {Hans Zimmer},
    title   = {The title of the work The title of the work The title of the work},
    journal = {Some journal},
    year    = {2013},
    number  = {12},
    pages   = {40-41},
}


@book{book,
author    = {Peter Babington}, 
title     = {The title of the work The title of the work The title of the work The title of the work},
year      = 1993,
pages     ={310},
}


@incollection{incollection,
author       = {Peter Farindon}, 
title        = {The title of the work},
booktitle    = {The title of the book},
publisher    = {The name of the publisher},
year         = 1993,
pages     ={10},
}


\end{filecontents}

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=verbose]{biblatex}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}

\usepackage[flushmargin]{footmisc} 

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{document}
Let's cite! \footcite{ article} \footcite{incollection} \footcite{book}     \footcite{article} \footcite{incollection} \footcite{book}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

which produces

footnote goes over margin

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