Inline citations in Org files

By on 2023-05-16 (originally published on 2023-03-02)

Org can tangle bibtex, allowing for inline citations that are written to a bibliography file. By using that as the Org file’s bibliography, its contents can be cited from within the same document:1 

#+bibliography: ~/refs.bib

#+headers: :tangle ~/refs.bib
#+headers: :exports none
+begin_src bibtex
@book{beck2002driven,
  title = {Test Driven Development. By Example},
  author = {Beck, Kent},
  year = 2002
}
#+end_src

[cite:@beck2002driven]
  1. http://cachestocaches.com/2020/3/org-mode-annotated-bibliography/ ↩︎