Self-citing bibliography example

Julien Dutant

Abstract

This document illustrates self-citing bibliographies. The abstract is used to check that citations in metadata are printed correctly (Smith 2005).

Tests

Simple recursion

Doe (2020) illustrates a simple recursion.

Citations in the nocite metadata fields

Two more citations from Smith, namely 2001 and 2003 appear only in the nocite metadata field. This checks that they are preserved in the final document.

Suffixes.

Jones (2022b) and Jones (2022e) check that automatic suffixes are handled correctly. In the first recursion round these citations get suffixes a and b. Ultimately they should settle on suffixes b and e as the cross-referred Jones 2022 entries are added chronologically and their suffixes recalculated.

Placement and preamble of the bibliography

We can place the bibliography at an arbitrary point of the document, and even add a preamble to it. The bibliography should appear below this paragraph and start with a brief user preamble.

This is the user preamble for the bibliography.

Doe, Jane E. 2018. A Long Journey. 1st ed.
———. 2019. A Long Journey. 2nd ed. Reprint of Doe (2018).
———. 2020. A Long Journey. 3rd ed. Reprint of Doe (2019).
Jones, Jo. 2022a. “A New Thought (Jan).” Journal of Studies, January.
———. 2022b. An Separately Cited Book (Feb).
———. 2022c. “A Brief Note (Mar).” Journal of Studies, March. Comment on Jones (2022a) (this should be the January entry).
———. 2022d. “An Extended Note (Apr).” Journal of Studies, April. Extended version of in Jones (2022c) (this should be the March entry).
———. 2022e. Collected Papers (May). Includes a reprint of Jones (2022d) (this should be the April entry).
Smith, Al. 2001. “Thoughts.” Varia 1: 1–15.
———. 2003. “More Thoughts.” Varia 12: 35–55.
———. 2005. “Afterthoughts.” Varia 15: 25–33.

Debug

Setting the filter’s debug option to true in the metadata shows the bibliography self-citations found at each recursion round, provided Pandoc/Quarto is in verbose output mode.