Is refdb suitable for this?

Hi,

it depends. If you manage the "is referenced by" relationships
manually in your document, you could whip up something that does the
trick. refdb-publist [1] gets fairly close to what you need. The trick
is to assemble a document from several small bibliographies instead of
using just one like in a journal article.

However, if you want the bibliographic database to *store* these "is
referenced by" relationships, RefDB is not (yet) equipped to handle
this. I've suggested an improved data model [2] that would be able to
store such relationships, but this is not yet implemented.

Feel free to get back with more detailed questions if you feel that
RefDB is useful for your task.

regards,
Markus

[1] http://refdb.sourceforge.net/doc.html#refdb-publist
[2] http://refdb.sourceforge.net/rbib.html

Peter Elias writes:
 > Hello,
 > 
 > I plan to create and maintain a database of publications and citations 
 > in a small scientific institution. The database should list publications 
 > written by institution members and also publications which contain 
 > references to these publications. I need the ability to retrieve and 
 > format the output like this:
 > 
 > publication [...] is cited in:
 >    [1] ...
 >    [2] ...
 > publication [...] is cited in:
 >    [3] ...
 > etc.
 > 
 > Is refdb a suitable tool for this task? After looking to refdb manual, I 
 > was not able to tell.
 > 
 > Thanks,
 > Peter
 > 
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