I am not the OP, but I'm very much interested in how referencing works with ConTeXt so let me add to this.
> You can write your own style, or your own modified style. Is the publications manual still up to date? Is there more recent information available? How would I start writing my own style? Concerning your two requirements for new styles: (2) there is a clear, defined standard that can be followed. This is actually the easier question: A few standard styles immediately come to mind: MLA, Chicago 16th and 17 edition in its various variants (author-date, note-bibliography, fullnote-bibliography, both note styles with and without ibid.), Modern Humanities Research Association... I guess having a model for all major variants (authordate, authoryear, numeric, alphanumeric) would be a good starting point. Also, we can implement more styles if (1) there is a need This is more tricky. I do very much like what ConTeXt has to offer for typesetting finished works, but I currently would not use it for writing a larger work in the Humanities. For smaller pieces I would probably write in Markdown, use pandoc to produce a context source file, and pandoc will me automatic citations via pandoc-citeproc (yet with a few glitches). For a longer work I currently don't have an alternative to biblatex. And I guess that is the point: Those with rather complex requirements for citations will either do them manually or use biblatex for this so it's not so easy to say if "there is a need". Having said that, I would really like being able to use ConTeXt here as well. So having a author-title style for the footnotes and the bibliographies would be more than welcome.
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