Re: Org-mode and/or org-ref citation formats

[Gerald Wildgruber <Gerald.Wildgruber@unibas.ch>]

On Mi, Jan 04 2017, John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:


>> A simple link would be of the form "cite:MYREF" or "citep:MYREF"; but if
>> I want to add a page number to this reference, the syntax of the link
>> seems to be very different, like so: "[[citep:MYREF][PAGENUM]]" or
>> [[citep:MYREF][::PAGENUM]].
>
> That is correct. Basically it is [[cite:key][pre text::post text]]
>
> You can type C-c C-l, select the link type, then the bibtex key, then
> type in the description. There is no way to do it through helm-bibtex though.

Thanks! Is there a reason why refs with pre- and post-text use the
general Org-mode link syntax and insert mechanisms and not org-ref's own
more powerful format and interface (helm-bibtex); why are they handled
differently?

Gerald.


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