Yesterday, we took a quick look at the new Org-cite functionality. It’s been merged into Master and will doubtless see its official release with Org 9.5. In the mean time, John Kitchin is busy reimagining his wonderful org-ref package to work in the org-cite framework. That process is not yet complete and Kitchin says that he probably won’t package it up for Melpa until Org 9.5 is released.
For now, you can get an idea of what it’s like by watching his video demonstration of org-ref-cite in action. There’s still some rough edges to be sanded down and not all the org-ref functionality is there. The cross reference citations haven’t been implemented yet and there was no mention of the great import mechanisms in org-ref as shown at the beginning of this video. It’s worth watching that video if you aren’t familiar with org-ref to get an idea of what it does.
Kitchin says he will probably run both org-ref and org-ref-cite in the future because he has over 8 years of papers that depend on org-ref. If you’re just starting, you’ll probably want to stick with org-ref-cite.
You can see the file that Kitchin works on here. The video is 15 minutes, 20 seconds long so it should be pretty easy to fit in. I’m really looking forward to seeing the final product. If it’s anything like org-ref, it’s going to be a winner.