Dear Hans & Alan, I would like to manually print the selected list of publications, like this: \usebtxdataset[items.bib] \usebtxdefinitions[aps] \starttext \startitemize \item \cite[entry][bib1] \item some random text \item \cite[entry][bib5] \stopitemize \stoptext The problem is that this doesn't print anything unless I add \placelistofpublications somewhere. While I do understand (to some extent at least) the rationale for not printing the number of bib item when \placelistofpublications is missing, I don't see any reason why I should be unable to print the complete publication that doesn't even require printing out any number. Any hints about how to do a workaround? I could do \nocite[bib1] \nocite[bib5] \placelistofpublications but then I'm unable to do manual tweaking of the list and adding free text. Thank you very much, Mojca