That'd be my preferred solution, with (notwithstanding name overlap with org-ref) an org-ref-insert entry point.

On Wed, Aug 11, 2021, 12:10 PM Timothy <tecosaur@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Bruce, John,

Regarding the issues with overloading [cite:@] syntax, would it be too much to
introduce [ref:@] which would function identically, but deal with references?

All the best,
*Timothy*