Richard Lawrence <richard.lawre...@berkeley.edu> writes: > Conceptually, something like `@key:year' isn't a citation, but merely > indirection, because it doesn't actually provide the reader of the > rendered document enough information to look up the reference. I think > we can cut down on the number of `citation' types that the syntax should > support if we distinguish citations from indirection like this.
I don't think this concept holds in the LaTeX world. I'm fairly certain that citation commands like \citeauthor and \citeyear create an entry in the bibliography. All the best, Tom -- Thomas S. Dye http://www.tsdye.com