In my thesis, in google docs, I would like to have references listed per chapter, and not automatically at the end of the document. Is there a way to do this? If not this would be a feature request 
Or is the not-so-optimal solution to write chapters separately and merge at the very end?
Cheers,
Wouter
The solution is to write each chapter as a separate document. Multiple bibliographies within the same document would be a fairly big change. That said, I encourage others who would want this feature to add their voice below.
I have just come on to the forum to ask if a strongly-related feature exists, and found this thread. Some journals (publishing the methods section as online-only) ask for a main reference list - containing citations used in the full text - and an additional reference list containing references only used in the methods section. Writing the two sections as separate documents doesn’t solve this problem as you would need to exclude references used in the full text from the second bibliography.
That’s not exactly what I’m asking for in this thread.
I am writing a bigger document (PhD thesis) and would like to list references after each chapter. I’m not citing chapters from books.
Ah, sorry for the misunderstanding. (Earlier post deleted to avoid confusion.)
I’m writing a book at the moment. I’d definitely like to have a single document with references split by chapter, rather than having to split the book into separate chapters.
+1. This is an important feature request. Endnote has the ability to do this for Word via settings of individual citation styles
Yep! Adding my voice here- would love this feature. Using Paperpile (which of course is FANTASTIC) for references in my dissertation. Need separate reference lists per chapter, and so it’s a little painful doing separate documents. Have to recombine documents to send to committee for edits, then divide back out for edits, etc.
Adding my voice too - important feature request.
I concur with the general sentiment here. I would like to be able to have my reference list positioned before the tables and figures of my manuscript. The way Paperpile works now, however, is that it forces the reference list at the very end of the Word file, no matter what.
@S_P it is possible to move your Paperpile reference list to wherever you want it, in Word. After inserting the bibliography in your Word document, click anywhere in the document where you want the bibliography to be, select Settings and Tools, and click Move bibliography here. The bibliography will move to the cursor position and also stay there when updating the document.
+1 for request to have multiple bibliographies in the same document for theses/dissertations or chapter-style work
Ah, that’s beautiful! Thank you so much for the clear explanation, too, suzanne!
+1 on the feature request! I would love to be able to have separate bibliographies for each chapter of my thesis. Some of the suggestions here kinda work, but like others have said, it is a pain having to split the document into separate documents just to add a new bibliography and then merge them back together. Also, i know i’m able to move the bibliography to specific locations, but the key here is i’d want to have each section-specific bibliography only reference those sources i cite within that section, not all sources i cite in the whole document. So moving the bibliography isn’t exactly solving the issue.
Welcome to our forum, @K_Furman! We understand this would be helpful, especially for writing a thesis. Supporting multiple bibliographies is planned for our new Google Docs citation plugin, which we plan to release to users later this year. It will follow in the Word plugin after that.