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To support bibliographies, we need as a minimum the ability to:
- define one or more BIBTEX files, either as wiki pages or as uploaded files
- the wiki way would be to have one or more bibliography groups, with a page per citation
- provide a mechanism to specify a BIBTEX file, the default citation style and the reference style
- for example (:bibtex bib=Name cite=text:)
- provide a mechanism to cite a reference in a BIBTEX file
- for example (:cite unique-ref-id:)
- the author may over-ride the default reference style for individual citations
- since it’s a link, should it use intermap markup, i.e. Cite:PageName#ref-id
- output the list of citations at the end of the page or page collection, in alphabetical order or the order in which they are cited
- for a numeric reference style (e.g. [1]), the citations may appear as footnotes or endnotes
- support both HTML and PDF output, with an option to export a page or pages as raw LATEX
- upload existing BIBTEX files to the wiki
It would be highly desirable to:
- provide a form-based mechanism for adding and editing citations
- cite entries from multiple BIBTEX databases on the same wiki page
- define casual citations within a wiki page, rather than on a separate database page or group
- for example @Article{ … }, @Misc{ … }} (markup is @reference_type{ field name and value pairs })
- export citations in BIBTEX format
Supported reference styles should include:
- number i.e. [1]
- text i.e. Hawking et al. (2005)
- parenthesis i.e. (Hawking et al. 2005)
- implied parenthesis i.e. Hawking et al. 2005
- others?
Supported citation styles should include:
- maybe just provide one default for HTML and use LATEX to generate the preferred style in the PDF version
- or alternatively …?
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