Taco wrote:

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I've noticed that when using numerical citations, if the \completepublications is inside the back matter (which is where I would think it would normally be), then the citations themslves (in the body matter) disappear from the text (they turn into empty brackets, []). The reference list itself is correct.

If you comment out the \start|\stopbackmatter, then everything works. There seems to be no problem if you use author-date style citations, either globally or for individual citations. ...

Just something you missed in the manual. You need

\completepublications[criterium=all]

(because the module also supports per-sectionblock lists)

Many thanks again, this fixed it. But, if \completepublications (with no arguments) prints only a local list, then it should print the list just for the backmatter block, which should be an empty list, as there were no citations in that block. Instead, I get the list that applies to the bodymatter block. I am missing something here ... I also don't follow why just numeric citations are affected. Cheers, Robin