# multi-bib/grouping thoughts

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**Created:** [June 15, 2005, 12:52pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/multi-bib-grouping-thoughts/93 "2005-06-15T12:52:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 12:52pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/multi-bib-grouping-thoughts/93/1 "2005-06-15T12:52:03Z")

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cc-ing Norm …

Re: issue of chapterbib or multibib like functionality in the  
stylesheets, I just had an idea:

This shouldn’t be the job of CSL to configure (globally), but rather  
document-specific. So while citeproc currently just requires a  
top-level citation-style parameter, it should also allow local styling;  
e.g. to add this to a chapter:

… or something like that. I’m not quite sure how to do that in the  
XSLT, though I think tunnel parameters help.

Doing so would depend on the markup in the document schema, however.  
For example, I’m not sure how I’d configure in DocBook a biblist in  
which legal cases would be grouped separately from newspaper articles,  
which would both be grouped separately from the rest of the references.  
[where, to be clear, the bib metadata is stored outside the document,  
and where all grouping and sorting is handled by my stylesheets]

This is prompted by a question on the TeX list where a guy wants a  
numeric style for each of his thesis chapters, and then an author-year  
biblist for the entire thesis at the end (!).

Bruce