# Visible notes in Scribble bibliography

**URL:** <https://racket.discourse.group/t/visible-notes-in-scribble-bibliography/3868>\
**Category:** Questions & Answers\
**Created:** [July 22, 2025, 7:15am UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/visible-notes-in-scribble-bibliography/3868 "2025-07-22T07:15:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fare](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/fare/32/1148_2.png) [@Fare](https://racket.discourse.group/u/Fare)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2025, 7:15am UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/visible-notes-in-scribble-bibliography/3868/1 "2025-07-22T07:15:39Z")

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I would like to include some reader-visible notes in the foo.bib bibliography for an article written using Scribble's LaTeX / PDF backend. How do I do that? I might require some lower-level LaTeX hacking.

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**Author:** ![soegaard](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/soegaard/32/19_2.png) [@soegaard](https://racket.discourse.group/u/soegaard)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2025, 6:18pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/visible-notes-in-scribble-bibliography/3868/2 "2025-07-22T18:18:11Z")

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Even the ability to insert text between "Bibliography" and the entries would be nice to have.

Recently I needed to insert a little text after "Bibliography" but had to put it in a separate section. It looks odd in the table of contents.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/racket/original/2X/8/829f75b9a28e0410500c02bab375f5e413012393.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![soegaard](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/soegaard/32/19_2.png) [@soegaard](https://racket.discourse.group/u/soegaard)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/visible-notes-in-scribble-bibliography/3868/3 "2025-07-23T16:24:44Z")

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A closer look at the bibliography in the screenshot: It seems a space (or newline?) is missing between "1990." and "Publisher: Hermès".  
The bib-entry looks like this:

```scheme
@bib-entry[
  #:key "Abd90"
  #:author "Habib Abdulrab"
  #:title "De Common Lisp à la programmation objet"
  #:location "Paris"
  #:date "1990"
  #:note "Publisher: Hermès"
]

```