Config...erence(3pm)

💖 Config::Model::models::Dpkg::Upstream::Metadata::Reference 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is Config::Model::models::Dpkg::Upstream::Metadata::Reference — a whole configuration class, and honestly it's giving bibliography-core in the best way possible. it lives in the Config...erence(3pm) part of the perl docs (User Contributed Perl Documentation, if you're keeping track 🎀), and you are so ready for this.

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✨ NAME ✨

Config::Model::models::Dpkg::Upstream::Metadata::Reference — the configuration class Dpkg::Upstream::Metadata::Reference. that's the whole name. iconic, long, slay. 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so these are configuration classes used by Config::Model. no cap.

you've got one or more bibliographic references, and they're represented as a mapping — or a sequence of mappings — that contain one or more of the following keys. the values for every one of those keys are always scalars, and the keys that line up with standard BibTeX entries must provide the same content. like, mandatory-matching energy. ✨

want the deep lore? it's right here, go look: https://dep-team.pages.debian.net/deps/dep12/

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🦋 Elements 🦋

every single one of these is Optional, bestie — but the type matters, so watch the types. fr fr.

💜 Author

author list, but in BibTeX-friendly syntax. how do you do it? separate multiple authors with the keyword "and", and use as few abbreviations as possible in the names. that's the proposal, anyway — it's laid out here: http://nwalsh.com/tex/texhelp/bibtx-23.html.

Optional. Type string.

💜 Booktitle

title of the book the article is published in. 📖

Optional. Type uniline.

💜 DOI

this is the digital object identifier of the academic publication describing the packaged work. you know, the DOI. the vip pass. 🎫

Optional. Type uniline.

💜 Editor

editor of the book the article is published in. (yes, that's different from Author, bestie, keep up 🫶)

Optional. Type uniline.

💜 Eprint

hyperlink to the PDF file of the article. direct link energy. 🔗

Optional. Type uniline.

💜 ISBN

International Standard Book Number of the book — that's if the article is part of the book, or if the reference is a book.

Optional. Type uniline.

💜 ISSN

International Standard Serial Number of the periodical publication — that one's for when the article is part of a series.

Optional. Type uniline.

💜 Journal

abbreviated journal name. and there's a note in the source: [To be discussed: which standard to recommend ?]

Optional. Type uniline.

💜 Number

issue number. that's it, that's the description. volume's little sibling.

Optional. Type uniline.

💜 Pages

article page number(s). and here's the tea from the original, verbatim vibes: [To be discussed] — the page number separator must be a single ASCII hyphen, and the source literally asks "What do we do with condensed notations like 401-10 ?" 💀 so, you know. open question. not our problem today.

Optional. Type uniline.

💜 PMID

ID number in the https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ database. 🧬

Optional. Type uniline.

💜 Publisher

publisher of the book containing the article.

Optional. Type uniline.

💜 Title

article title. short, sweet, iconic. 👑

Optional. Type uniline.

💜 Type

a http://www.bibtex.org/Format indicating what is cited. typical values are "article", "book", or "inproceedings". also marked [To be discussed]. and here's the important bit: in case this field is not present, "article" is assumed. so if you ghost it, it defaults. periodt. ✨

Optional. Type uniline.

💜 URL

hyperlink to the abstract of the article. ⚠️ careful now — this should not point to the full version, because that's what Eprint is for. and please also do not drop links to pubmed here, because that would be redundant with PMID. two fields, two jobs, no overlap. 🚫

Optional. Type uniline.

💜 Volume

journal volume.

Optional. Type uniline.

💜 Year

year of publication.

Optional. Type uniline.

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• cme

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🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Dominique Dumont

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📜 COPYRIGHT 📜

2025, Dominique Dumont

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 documented by the perl docs at version perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-08-30 — so if anyone asks, that's the source and the date, go forth and cite responsibly. 🌈✨🎀