Hi Taco, Normally, while using \cite one does not need to worry about adding an explicit space after the command. So, you can write "\cite[something] says ...." rather than "\cite[something]\ says ...". But something has changed in core ConTeXt which has changed this behaviour. Consider the test file: \usemodule [bib] \setuppublications [alternative=num] \starttext Test~\cite[something] is wrong \stoptext I have two versions of ConTeXt. With ConTeXt 2009.01.18 (which has t-bib version=2008.10.27), I get (notice the space after [] and is) %----------- Test [] is wrong %------------- With ConTeXt 2009.03.09 (which has t-bib version=2008.12.01) I get (notice that there is no space after [] and is) %----------- Test []is wrong %------------- The behaviour is the same whether I use pdftex or luatex. There is no major difference between the two versions of t-bib. The changelog says %D \item Catalan translation of 'References' (10/11/2008) %D \item 'chapter' -> 'chapitre' in bibl-apa-fr (27/11/2008) %D \item Run bibtex via os.execute in mkiv modee (01/12/2008) So I am guessing that the difference is because of something else, but I cannot see any differences. Any suggestions? Aditya