the bibliography link is just for bibtex. If you are using biblatex/biber I
think you would put that in a latex header, e.g.

#+latex_header: \addbibresource{References.bib}

Both of these are file-local though, and won't affect other files in that
directory.

John

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On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 1:43 PM <edgar@openmail.cc> wrote:

> On 2018-10-31 15:27, John Kitchin wrote:
> > You do have to close the org-file, and then reopen it after you make
> > that file, and when I do that I am prompted whether to apply or ignore
> > the settings.
>
> Oh! may be I need to re-open the file. I tried with reloading dir-local
> variables and reverting the buffer.
>
> > It might be simpler to just use a bibliography link in the file though:
> >
> > bibliography:References.bib
>
> Yes, I used to have \addbibresource{References.bib}, but I wanted to
> have the whole configuration on the .dir-locals.el file. I guess that
> bibliography:References.bib is more general.
>
> Thank you very much, Dr. Kitchin!
>
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