I'm dealing with project documentation.
For the type of projects I'm working on, that means I have a large number of individual documents, each of which cover a particular aspect of the project. But all these documents are to be read in conjunction with each other. As such, they frequently
cross-reference each other, which I know how to do thanks to this question and this one
reference identical external documents, which is what this question is about.
Currently, the bibliography for any one of these documents (document A) citing some external document [external S] will assign some reference ID to it, say, RD2. Another document (document B) citing the same [external S] will generally assign a different reference ID to it, say, RD15.
I would like all documents that reference the same external sources use the same reference ID for it. So, for instance, \citep{external S} used in either document A or document B will always show up in their bibliographies as RD521, for example.
How to accomplish this?
xcite? – egreg Feb 09 '17 at 11:49