The References text field of a writing serves both as a normal text field where references can be put, and also as a more useful memory aid. Any line in it that begins with a number in square brackets can be Ctrl-clicked to add the corresponding reference number to writing's content text. The references thus added to the text will appear in the published version, but without the highlighting style. In the text editing view they the be clicked, which caused corresponding line in the References text field will to be visually highlighted. Between those numbered lines there may be other lines of text which do not have the same functionality, but are just text. When the References text field is defocused, a panel is displayed in its place, showing the links with the favicons provided by the target sites.

If text excerpts have been placed to a content text of a writing but not all if any of the relevant reference links are put in the References textfield, references can be retrieved automatically for each text paragraph. In practice, search engines are used to search for matches in the text paragraphs, after which the relevant content text (e.g., article text) is retrieved from the found page candidates in another way and compared to the retrieved text paragraphs for greater certainty. The reference links found in this way is marked as a reference for the text paragraph in question, and the same is done for each text paragraphs. This does not work reliably with e.g. quotations that are used on many websites, because it is not possible to automatically determine which of them is the source of the text excerpt, but otherwise it works very well on article and news websites.

In another use case, both text paragraphs and reference links are available, but the connection between them is not set. In such case, the missing reference connections can be added in similar fashion to above-mentioned method. This makes it easier to collect text excerpts from the internet, because the text excerpts and links can be "thrown somewhere" and the connections between them can be added later.

Since texts can sometimes become very long and contain many references, one may want to edit them separately and then combine them later. At that point, one may notice that there are overlaps in the numbering of the reference links. To fix this, the References text field need to be focused and after which, while holding down the Ctrl key, scrolling up or down with the mouse wheel causes the reference numbers to change in both the References text field and the body text of the writing, allowing one to increase or decrease the numbering in the whole writing at once.

If one wants to manually add reference numbers to writins's content text, but the reference links do not have any, such can be added to all of them by holding down the Ctrl key while defocusing the References text field. If reference numbers should be removed from References text field, that can be done by holding down both the Ctrl and Alt keys while defocusing.

The text editor's menu has other functions for handling references, such as using one or more links between text paragraphs as sources of information for the preceding text paragraphs, i.e., those links are automatically used as reference information and the reference numbers are inserted into the text at the same time. In this way, one can search the internet for text excerpts e.g. relevant to a topic, insert the relevant links after the text paragraphs, and continue doing the same as later they can all be automatically handled. Reference numbers without reference links can be removed from content text semi-automatically, as the unused reference links can be removed semi-automatically from the References text field.