How do I incorporate multiple bib files in quarto books

[abduazizR]

Description

Hi

I am currently working on a quarto book. The issue is that the only bibliography the project recognizes is the one generated in main directory of the book folder. So, if I have .qmd files inside a folder called "Chapters", rendering those files generate .bib files that are not recognized by the _quarto.yml file.

Is there a way to solve this?

Thanks

[mcanouil]

bibliography takes file paths. You should be able to give bib file from anywhere within your Quarto project.

Could you share a small concrete example of your setup?

[abduazizR]

Thanks for the quick response! I am running this repo https://github.com/kelly-sovacool/rackham/tree/main in particular

[abduazizR]

I tried to put chapters/references.bib

but it does not work. Maybe I am doing the indentation incorrectly. Could you please show me an example of how to set this up correctly?

Thanks

[mcanouil]

Sorry, but I don't see the link with what you initially described.
You have only one bib file references.bib that you provided to bibliography at a project level.

[abduazizR]

Oh yes yes
The original repo doesn't have citations inside the chapters folder. I am asking if I were to put citations in .qmd files inside the chapters folder and a couple of references.bib are generated, how can I invoke them in _quarto.yml?

[mcanouil]

As I said and as documented bibliography takes paths.
So you need to provide the paths:

bibliography:
  - whatever/path/to/file.bib
  - a/file/somewhere/else.bib