References in Publisher

[FredVN]

I like to have references in my books. In the text a number [1] and at the end of the book a separate chapter with all the references to books or websites.

References

[1] Affinity Publisher, https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/publisher/

 

 

It would be great if such a list of references could be made automatically. But as far as I understood this is not (yet) possible.

BTW, they are NOT cross-references or footnotes. I read a lot of that on the forum.

 

A complication is that I continuously add chapters in between existing chapters. Which means after that the sequence of numbers is not correct anymore.

 

The clumsy way is when the book is finished check every number in the text give it the right sequence number and link it to the correct reference. No job to look forward to and a high chance of errors

 

Are there smarter ways to do it (more or less) automatically?

[walt.farrell]

6 hours ago, FredVN said:

BTW, they are NOT cross-references or footnotes. I read a lot of that on the forum.

They seem like End Notes, which are a subset of Footnotes in the discussions here.

No, they are not possible yet.

[FredVN]

I was hoping, that maybe someone had already worked out something -partially- automatic for this relatively simple problem. It seems not. 

I checked if I could fiddle around with variables and an extra table of contents at the end of the document but especially the variable did not work (and is also not really clear in the Help file). 

After all, it is just a simple variation of a single-level table of contents.

So I'll continue with the manual method I've been following for years in Word articles.