One way to go about it is to use bibtool to extract all the references your article/book uses from your aux file and dump them in a new .bib file. Then you can use grep on the @ character to count them. Not foolproof but should get you fairly close. Or you can open the new bib file in a bibtex editor (JabRef, Bibdesk, etc) and let it count them for you.
So, you'd export the file to latex (with file>>export), then run latex on the exported file (new-file.tex, let's say) in a terminal window, and then run bibtool on the .aux file it produced: bibtool -x my-file.aux -o new-bibliography.bib Then run grep on the the new bib file: grep --count @ new-bibliography.bib Look at this thread on tex.stackexchange for other ideas: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/32032/extract-all-citations-from-tex-file Cheers, Stefano -- __________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA [email protected] http://stefano.cleinias.org
