On Mon 07 Nov 2011, Renald Buter wrote:

Possibly people can give me a pointer into the proper direction?

What I am after is probably something like:

\setuppublicationlayout[article]{% ... \insertarttitle{\bgroup }{\egroup\optionallyinsertdot }{}% ... }

I am not very knowledgeable about TeX, but would this be possible?

I am far from being an expert, but here are a couple of ideas: 1. The useful document ‘Tame the BeaST’ mentions that BST-language has the function add.period$ , which seems to do what you want (see ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/bibtex/tamethebeast/ttb_en.pdf , p. 33). So you could rewrite cont-au.bst (or whichever BST file you are using) to optionally add the full stop while formatting it for ConTeXt, and then never add punctuation after \insertarttitle . 2. A quick google turned up a similar question and answer at http://www.tug.org/pipermail/texhax/2009-November/013714.html . That message presents two magical pieces of hackery which are claimed to do the job, but I haven't tried them and don't understand them. My own solution in your situation was to ignore it and hope that my thesis examiners don't notice, or at least don't mind :-(. This problem is becoming more common: see http://www.springerlink.com/content/uh466q5p3722n37l/ -- good luck finding a better solution than mine. Hope this helps, Pont