Note: I'm using org-cite, not org-ref.
As I'm writing, I sometimes add a new citation to my references.bib file. But org-mode can't always find it. Instead, org highlights the new citation as an error, and if I click on it says "Cannot find citation key".
However if I restart Emacs, it can find it.
Is there a function I can call to rebuild or refresh org-mode's understanding of the .bib file without having to restart Emacs?
I learned from this post about the variable org-cite-global-bibliography.
Setting this to point at my bibliography file AND removing the #+BIBLIOGRAPHY: path/to/my.bib from the org-mode buffer seems to fix my issue.
My suspicious is that the keyword-based bibliography information is cached but the org-cite-global-bibliography variable is not, which allows changes to either the .bib or .org file to be updated in the .org document with a call to revert-buffer.
In summary, my old method included this line inside each org-mode file:
#+BIBLIOGRAPHY: path/to/my.bib
My new method adds the following to my .emacs config file:
(setq org-cite-global-bibliography path/to/my.bib)
And omits the #+BIBLIOGRAPHY: line from the .org files.
M-: (org-cite-basic--all-keys), There may be other, better supported ways, but this should parse the bibliography file again and remake the hash table. No guarantees though: my understanding of how citation works in Org mode is extremely rudimentary.oc-basicis not loaded?