On 30 Sep 2014, at 11:45 , Andrea Valle wrote

Could you provide a minimal example?

I?ve never used ConTeXt for this, and I?m a bit stuck

Hi Andrea, Here is a “minimal" example. It is for mkii now but you can easily switch to mkiv by changing the starting (and stopping) of the chapters. Is this what you had in mind? Best regards, Robert Blackstone ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ %Ref.: ntg-context Digest, Vol 123, Issue 46, 30-09-2014 %Subject: splitting bibliographic references \setuppublicationlist[samplesize={{Lam}81},totalnumber=4] \startpublication[k=Arnold:1931bl,t=booklet, a={{{Arnold, Franck. T.}}},y=1931, n=4,s={Arn}31] \author[]{}[]{}{{Arnold, Franck. T.}} \pubyear{1931} \title{{The Art of Accompaniment from a Thorough-Bass as practiced in the 17th and 18th centuries}} \pubname{The Holland Press} \city{London} \stoppublication \startpublication[k=ChristensenT:1992qzbl,t=booklet, a={{{Christensen, Thomas}}},y=, n=3,s={Chr}] \author[]{}[]{}{{Christensen, Thomas}} \title{{{\em \quote{The Spanish Baroque Guitar and Seventeenth-Century Triadic Theory}}, JMT, {\em 36 (1992), 1-42}}} \stoppublication \startpublication[k=Dreyfus-Laurence:1987zbl,t=booklet, a={{{Dreyfus, Laurence}}},y=1987, n=2,s={Dre}87] \author[]{}[]{}{{Dreyfus, Laurence}} \pubyear{1987} \title{{Bach's Continuo Group: Players and Practices in his Vocal Works}} \city{Cambridge} \stoppublication \startpublication[k=Lamott:1981crbl,t=booklet, a={{{Lamott, Bruce A.}}},y=1981, n=1,s={Lam}81] \author[]{}[]{}{{Lamott, Bruce A.}} \pubyear{1981} \title{{{\em \quote{Keyboard Improvisation according to \quotation{Nova instructio pro pulsandis organis}, 1670-{\em c}1675} by Spiridion a Monte Carmelo, Ph.D.~diss.~(Stanford U., 1980), repr.}}} \city{Ann Arbor, MI} \stoppublication \starttext \chapter{Knuth}%mkii %\startchapter[bookmark=,list=,title={Knuth}]%mkiv \input knuth \section{References} \nocite[Arnold:1931bl] \nocite[ChristensenT:1992qzbl] \placepublications[criterium=cite] %\stopchapter%mkiv \chapter{Tufte}%mkii %\startchapter[bookmark=,list=,title={Tufte}]%mkiv \input tufte \section{References} \nocite[Dreyfus-Laurence:1987zbl] \nocite[Lamott:1981crbl] \placepublications[criterium=cite] %\stopchapter%mkiv \stoptext +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++