🚀 go-pugleaf

These are already sorted alphabetically, are they? I presume so. The way I tackle this is to loop from the back, along these lines:

function cleanUpBib(textRef) {
  var paras = textRef.paragraphs;
  var curName = "";
  for (var j = paras.length - 1; j >= 0; j--) {
    var bibName = getBibName(paras[j]);
    if (bibName != curName) {
      curName = bibName;
    } else {
      clearBibName(paras[j+1]);
    }
  }
}

where getBibName is a function that returns the name from the referenced paragraph and clearBibName replaces the name in the referenced paragraph with the en-dash, comma, tab string (or whatever).

And I'd let this rip on the whole bibiolography, but perhaps test it first on a selection.

Did I understand the need correctly? For jobs like this, it's almost always easier to start from the back and work forwards.

Dave