Alan BRASLAU mailto:alan.braslau@cea.fr 19. März 2016 um 11:43 \citation and \cite are synonyms \nocitation and \nocite are synonyms
\cite and \nocite are traditional bibTeX usage (in LaTeX).
\nocitation (\nocite) is a hidden citation, i.e. it pulls an entry from the dataset, including it in the bibliography list, but does not render a reference in the text.
This is useful, for example, to force a reference tag at the place where a table or figure is called, but to postpone the rendering of the reference to the bibliography to figure later in the floated table or figure.
\nocite does the same thing as \cite[none] [key] This doesn't answer my question.
On line 1386 we have: \unexpanded\def\citation {\doifelsenextoptionalcs\btxlistcitation \btxdirectlistcite} which allows \citation{<REFERENCE>} but \let\citation \listcitation on line 1389 makes the \citation command a synonym for \listcitation which means \citation{<REFERENCE>} isn't possible anymore. Wolfgang