After struggling with all the programming prescribed by Context to set up a bibliography, and examining a few dozen *.bib, *.bst and a *bbl file, I decided to do things the simple way. My concept is, that instead of creating a *bib file I could with the same amount of effort create a plain text file to be imported directly into my Context file. I studied the bibliography of "The Chicago Manual of Style" to determine the order, punctuation and format. My file is called "book.foo." Now if I choose to use some of these entries in another book a simple cut and paste between two editor sessions will do. For ease in editing I put each item in each entry on a separate line. TeX/Context will take care of puttng them together in a paragraph. Of course this lacks the generality of the bibtex approach. But I don't need all that flexibilty. None of the current biblio styles specified for Context incorporate the ISBN field. So I just put it at the end of each entry preceded by a \crlf. Without further ado here is the book.foo file: ------------------------------------------ \chapter{References} %authors. title. city: publisher, year\crlf %isbn Bah, Tavmjong. {\it Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program}. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 2011 \crlf ISBN 978-0-13-276414-8 Culleton, John R. Jr. {\it Create Book Covers with Scribus} (pdf e-book). Eldersburg, Maryland: Wexford Press, 2012 \crlf ISBN 978-1-60019-002-5 Drew, Ned and Paul Sternberger. {\it By its Cover: Modern American Book Design}. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2005\crlf ISBN 978-1-56898-497-1 Kirsanov, Dimitry. {\it The Book of Inkscape\trademark : The Definitive Guide to the Free Graphics Editor}. San Francisco: No Starch Press, 2009\crlf ISBN 978-159327-181-7 Powers, Alan. {\it Front Cover: Great Book Jacket and Cover Design}. London: Mitchell Beazley, 2006\crlf ISBN 978-1-84533-242-6 ------------------------------------------- If by chance an entry ends up split between two pages a simple \page[yes] command can be inserted. I considered instead putting a \goodbreak between entries but figured it wasn't worth the bother. Since I call this fragment a \chapter it is listed in the TOC. I had to put \whitespace[medium] right after the \startbackmatter command just as I did after \startbodymatter. for my purposes for this task simple is better and much faster. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html