Thank you very much. I was using the (old) bibtex module. Using the mkvi
publication mechanism was the key.

Antoine

On 19 January 2017 at 16:19, Alan Braslau <alan.braslau@cea.fr> wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 08:19:03 +0100
> Antoine Cailliau <antoinecailliau@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > How can I adjust the publication list to display [Kup03a] instead of
> > [2] ? The numbering option does not offer "key" apparently.
>
> Using the mkiv publications mechanism, you can get short \cite keys
> by default using
>
> \setupbtx[alternative=short]
>
> Individually, you can use \cite[short][yourkey]
>
>
> Then you will also have to modify the bibliography list rendering to
> display the short key. This is slightly more complicated, as presently
> only the APA and APS styles have been predefined, the first being an
> "authoryear" scheme and the second being a "num" scheme.
>
> Starting with the APS style:
>
> \usebtxdefinitions[aps]
>
> \definebtxrendering
>   [mystyle]
>   [aps] % inherits from "aps"
>   [sorttype=short,
>    numbering=short]
>
>
> \cite[...]
>
> ...
>
> \placelistofpublications[mystyle]
>
>
> However, you really want to define a complete style for your rendering.
>
> Alan
>