That is the default value of that variable. I guess you had set it elsewhere to be getting citep before. John ----------------------------------- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 4:59 PM Uwe Brauer wrote: > >>> "UB" == Uwe Brauer writes: > > > Hi > > > I enjoy org-ref, but I struggle to configure org-ref-insert-link. > > (setq org-ref-default-citation-link "cite") > > Is your friend > >