Create your reference list as an ordinary numbered list and use
cross-references to the paragraph numbers in the text. Even if they don't
update automatically, they will update when you explicitly update fields
(when you print, for example).

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"ThanhVu Nguyen" ThanhVu wrote in message
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What I mean by this is if I have a
section of text like the following:

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The theory of genetic programs and their applications are described in
detail in reference [5].
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References

[1]
[2]
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[5] Koza, Genetic Programming, Publisher name, year, so on
[6]


If I add intermediate references so that reference [5] becomes
reference
[12], I would like there to be automatic updating so that the line in
the
references becomes

References

[1]
[2]
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[12] Koza, Genetic Programming, Publisher name, year, so on
[13]

without me chanGing it. I would like to invoke a similar feature for
referencing equations, sections, figures, and tables in papers.