That is clearly a bug. Mkiv or mkii? I think I use texlive (current debian unstable). I also think I found the problem :) I've been using the http://pmrb.free.fr/work/OS/ConTeXt/e-phd.tex + project file and it seems that there's something wrong with the order of the commands. The original verion:
\startproduct prd_phd \project project_phd \starttext \setuppublications[alternative=apa, refcommand=short, autohang=yes, numbering=short, sorttype=bbl, criterium=all] \placepublications[criterium=all] \stoptext \stopproduct This does not work. This, however, works: \setuppublications[alternative=apa, refcommand=short, autohang=yes, numbering=short, sorttype=bbl, criterium=all] \starttext \startproduct prd_phd \project project_phd \chapter{Bibliography} \placepublications[criterium=all] \stopproduct \stoptext So, I don't know if it's a bug or not or if it's the way it should be and was just an inattention by the one who wrote the original product-file. Cheers, Hubertus