Yes it is. But there is of course no automagic connections between the two; you'll have to insert references by copy-paste and then scan the exported document.

Yeah, that's neat, but I think pht wanted to use a reference manager with Ulysses (such as Endnote, Bookends or Sente). You typically use these programs to store all your references, but also to insert and format your citations + build a list of references. It will take care of the tedious formatting of reference lists that all journals require you to format a little differently.

Like I say, it is quite possible to use these programs with Ulysses (I have done it quite a bit). You just paste a reference into the editor and it will create a temporary citation that could look something like {Author, 2002, #1449}. When done, you export to word or rtf and scan that document with your reference manager to format citations and build the reference list.

Some word processors, such as Word, have plug-ins that allow the reference manager to do much of this with more automation. But I really doubt if this would make sense for Ulysses, as it separates input and output so strongly anyway. And again, it works just fine as it is. Actually, I typically turn most of those automatic features off anyway in Word; they are mostly just annoying in my mind.

We'll definitely have a look into that.

Write -> Insert citation from BiBTeX -> export to LaTeX -> Build PDF with formatted citations and reference list

Doesn't this already work?

What functionality is it that you feel is missing?

Just to make sure I understand you right: you basically want a separate tag for footnotes and endnotes (which are here used as references), right? I think this will be possible.

It works perfectly, even with natbib (\citet , \citep) commands if you like. you just need to know some latex.
you can even just insert the bibtex key from your ref manager. you just need your .bib file in the folder where you latex your .tex file.

Hello Niklas, hello all,
I also have Bookends but my wordprocessor is Nisus Writer Pro 2. I presume I have to export from Ulysses in RTF format to Nisus and use Bookends scanning in Nisus. Is that correct?
The nice thing is that Nisus and Bookends are quite well integrated. What would be the best way not to loose this integration when adding Ulysses to the mix?
Anybody out there with recent experience with Ulysses + Nisus + Bookends?
Many thanks for any tips and hints

So I'm still confused about what Ulysses can do in terms of references, particular when exporting to ePub.

I would like to use in-text citations (Author 1990), and then have a bibliography at the end of the book. My bibliographic data are in a bibtex file.

I know how to do this in LaTeX, via Ulysses: I just put the bibtex commands in (\citep{key}) etc., define them as tags, leave them untouched, done. LaTeX then typesets the intent citations as I want them to (year, author, parentheses etc.), adds a bibliography at the end, and (this is great) hyperlinks the in-text citations to their respective entries in the bibliography.

How can I achieve this in Ulysses for ePub export?

I'm now doing this via {{key}} and {{key-reference text}} in the note.

My problems are:
- it seems the reference has to be in the respective note, not in a project wide note. That's very inconvenient for hundreds of references. I have to duplicate many references.
- the key becomes the actual output in the ePub export, styled as [Smith1776]. That's ugly. Can I change or customize that?

So it seems Ulysses (or maybe ePub?) isn't really made for semantically formatted, linked, automated references. Am I getting that right, or just too stupid to figure out how to do this?

If that is a Ulysses limitation (which would be a severe limitation to use it for academic writing), are there any suggestions of how to work around this for a good ePub result?

Thanks so much!