Bibliography without In-text Citations?

[brutaldigital]

Hi there,

Is it possible to display a list of bibliographic references at page-level using q-bibliography without using the q-cite in-text citations? If so, where and how should I reference the entries from the references.yml file?

Thanks!
Tom

[Erin-Cecele]

Hi @brutaldigital. You have a few options:

1. You can either use reference.yml and q-bibliography to create an overall bibliography at the end of the publication
2. You can add a page-level biblio simply using Markdown
3. You can add the references to a references.yaml file and then list the relevant ids in the page YAML. However, this may be a bit unwieldy if there are a lot of references. See example of page YAML below.

title: Chapter Title
order: 10
layout: page
references:
 - "West 1939"
 - "Evans 1938"
 - "Lynd 1929"

The order they’re listed in doesn’t matter. Quire will sort them all alphabetically. Although it's worth noting that you may need to add a sort attribute to your references.yml if diacritics or other exceptions knock things out of order. More info on this can be found in our documentation: https://quire.getty.edu/docs-v1/citation-bibliographies/.

[Erin-Cecele]

Hi @brutaldigital, did our answer help resolve your issue? Also, out of curiosity, are you currently working on a publication for Quire, or are you just in an exploration phase with the tool?

[brutaldigital]

Thanks @Erin-Cecele . I'm just in an exploration phase for the moment.

I'm trying out your suggestion to add a page-level biblio in markdown at the bottom of the page, but am struggling with the order. No matter how I arrange the markup the notes come after after the bibliography content (and not below their corresponding heading). Is there a way to avoid this, or must footnotes always be the last section on a page?

{% backmatter %}

Notes

[^...]

Bibliography

[...]
{% endbackmatter %}

[Erin-Cecele]

Hi @brutaldigital. Ah, yes, Markdown processors are designed to always put Notes last. In this case, the best thing to do would be to make use of option 3 listed above (use the references.yaml file and then refer to those ids in the page YAML of the essay). Due to a bug, this function is not currently available in Quire v1. We are bringing this to the attention of our developers and hope to have a fix for you soon. (I will link the GH issue number shortly).

[Erin-Cecele]

@brutaldigital You can now track our progress with this bug in issue #654.