I would like a bibliography that includes many works that may not be referenced specifically. I am using quarto 1.0.37 for Windows, with the latest Wakerobin build of RStudio.

The [quarto documentation](https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/footnotes-and-citations.html) appears to say I can do this by creating a "dummy nocite metadata field" that either has specific references, or all of them. This mirrors the [pandoc user guide](https://quarto-dev.github.io/quarto-gallery/articles/pdf/pandoc-user-guide.pdf), p.101.

I have created such a metadata field and tried putting it everywhere - at the top of my `references.qmd` file, after the header of the file, inside the fenced `{#refs}` part of the file, in a different .qmd file, and as metadeta in my _quarto.yml file, but the uncited works never show in the references list. This is true whether I put specific references (e.g, @item1, @item2) or the wild card for all works (@*) in the metadata field.

Would it be possible to tell me if I am doing something wrong (and how to do it correctly)?



--------------------- Aside -----------------------------------------------------------

FWIW, I found a way to work around this by creating a separate text file with the list of uncited works (constructed with an R program that reads the .bib file of all works) like this:

```
::: {#refs}
{{< include all_cited_and_uncited_works.qmd >}}
:::

```

However, this is not a great solution because when there are multiple works by the same author, where some of them are cited, it is hard to get the sort order of this list synchronized with the works as they appear in the resulting html -- some works in the body of the book will link to the wrong works in the references html file. So I'd rather not try to use this workaround.


jjallaire
2022-08-03T12:33:52Z
donboyd5
v1.1
closed
cannot get nocite to work
https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/1660