15.1 Citations

Before adding citations, first set one-or-more bibliographies, either globally with org-cite-global-bibliography, or locally using one or more “bibliography” keywords.

#+bibliography: SomeFile.bib
#+bibliography: /some/other/file.json
#+bibliography: "/some/file/with spaces/in its name.bib"

One can then insert and edit citations using org-cite-insert, called with C-c C-x @.

A citation requires one or more citation key(s), elements identifying a reference in the bibliography.

[cite/style:common prefix ;prefix @key suffix; ... ; common suffix]

The only mandatory elements are: