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>:( I have pushed and pushed for this for many years. I finally gave up trying to get it from the openoffice crowd, especially since at least a 3rd party app works OK with openoffice (Bibus). That leaves kword and ALL other possible linux word processors (other than Lyx/Klyx which doesn't really count - it is not a word processor). If you do ANY professional writing at all for journals. If you do ANY scientific, engineering...any research-type writing, you MUST cite sources. This is fundamental. For windows and all its major wordprocessors you can use EndNote and related software to handily deal with citations/references and bibliography/reference page generation and organization. For Openoffice you can use the aforementioned Bibus to do the same thing. For Kword or ANY other linux wordprocessor, you are stuck with the old typewriter way of handling citations/references: Doing it by hand which is insane and totally unnecessary! Thus no one will use kword or other wordprocessor who also has to cite sources.

Kword either needs to incorporate a citation manager app into itself to handle medline, refer, bibtex, etc, etc, references AND handle their insertion into a document AND generate the properly formatted reference page/bibliography/footnotes OR it needs to provide an openoffice-like handle so that Bibus can be used with Kword too.

Does no one using linux actually write professional documents for publication? Does no one using linux need to publish to professional journals? How else to explain the years and years of no citation management, even as an afterthought, for ANY wordprocessor in linux?

There are ideas for citation managers, but not really for kword integration.