Re: citation syntax

Guenter Milde via Docutils-users <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.docutils.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2018-01-12, Alan Isaac wrote:
> Might it be possible to consider supporting an extension
> to the citation syntax?

I cannot tell how simple or difficult this becomes but I'd rather
concentrate on an integrated `Footnote & Citation Gathering`__.
Would you like to cooperate on this?

__ http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/dev/todo.html#unimplemented-transforms

Meanwhile I tried to turn your example into an MWE and think about a
temporary workaround.

Thanks Günter


At the moment, I find myself often supporting anonymous links to
citations like `Isaac and Jass (2011)`__.

The reason is that the standard citation reference must occur in the
document if we are to extract the references for processing into
a citation list (e.g., with bibstuff).

__ isaac-2011-jasss_
.. [isaac-2011-jasss]_


__ http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/dev/todo.html#unimplemented-transforms

An alternative workaround would be to use aliases like `Milde and Monecke (1989)
<ref:the_bib_key_>`__. A reference manager (extended bibstuff, say) would
need to scan for `ref: ...` links and insert the citation target.

The references section would be inserted by the reference manager

References
==========

.. [isaac-2011-jasss] fist example reference, 2011.
.. _`ref:the_bib_key`:
.. [mm89] second example reference, 1989.


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