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References

References

The references tab contains a bibliography of all the references you cite within the document. It is generated while saving your document and gives you a preview of your bibliography section. You can also select text in this panel which allows you to copy the references.

The sidebar with the second tab open, the references section

This list consists of any element that is cited somewhere in your document, plus the nocite elements. Any valid citekey that you place in a YAML frontmatter under the nocite key will be added to the bibliography, regardless of whether you actually cite the item in your main text, in agreement with how Pandoc will render your references.

To learn more about citing literature with Zettlr, take a look at the documentation page for citations.

Note

Please note that the references will be displayed using the built-in CSL style. If you have specified a custom CSL style, Pandoc will use that one during export. The references in the sidebar are for preview purposes.

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Last update: 8/18/26, 8:15 PM
Contributors: Hendrik Erz
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