Is there a way I can manually reset or clear the citations in biblatex?

Question

Biblatex already provides options for citereset and refsection which make it easy to set up multiple (sub-)bibliographies for a document. However, the document I am creating uses manual partitions (above the level of "part") for my own purposes, as a form of "volume" in the wider work.

(The document is set up something like we see here.

I want citations to be consistent across parts, but when I reach one of these manual divides to a different "volume", I would like a separate citations section.

Is there a way I can manually reset the list of citations - and their numbers - at this point?

To add to the complication (potentially), I would like to be able to \nocite{*} to do a book-wide bibliography, through all volumes at the end.

I'm using biblatex with the tufte-book class, as well as the subfiles class for managing sub-files.

UPDATE:

So, according to the documentation of biblatex there is a \citereset command, however - compiling with latexmk -pdf, that is - I find that it doesn't seem to do this.

I.e., with the layout:

...the end. (The end of the last part in "Volume I")

% print bibliography for Volume I
\printbibliography
\citereset

% (code for manually ending this volume / starting next volume goes here)
\part{My Part}
\chapter{My Chapter}
% (no citations take place here)

...

...the end. (The end of the last part for "Volume II")

% print biliography for Volume II
\printbibliography
\citereset

% print bibliography for entire book
\nocite{*}
\printbibliography

... what we find is that every bibliography has all the same references (the bib file I'm testing against in this case only has one reference).

Answer 1

In my view, the question isn't very clear as to specifics, which makes it difficult to answer. But here is a general structure you could use to do what I think you are trying to do.

Notice I'm using \newrefsection to divide at your "above part volume level" and provide structure for you to generate a book-wide bibliography based on a category "workscited".

\documentclass{book}

\usepackage[style=numeric, defernumbers=true]{biblatex}

\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\DeclareBibliographyCategory{workscited}
\AtEveryCitekey{\addtocategory{workscited}{\thefield{entrykey}}}

\defbibenvironment{bookwidebib}
  {\list
     {}
     {\setlength{\leftmargin}{\bibhang}%
      \setlength{\itemindent}{-\leftmargin}%
      \setlength{\itemsep}{\bibitemsep}%
      \setlength{\parsep}{\bibparsep}}}
  {\endlist}
  {\item}

\begin{document}

%%%%%%%
% Here starts first volume
\newrefsection

\part{Part I}

\chapter{Chapter I.1}

\autocite{piccato}
\autocite{cotton}

\chapter{Chapter I.2}

\autocite{gerhardt}
\autocite{gonzalez}

\part{Part II}

\chapter{Chapter II.1}

\autocite{hammond}

\chapter{Chapter II.2}

\autocite{iliad}

\printbibliography

%%%%%%%
% Here starts second volume
\newrefsection

\part{Part III}

\chapter{Chapter III.1}

\autocite{knuth:ct}
\autocite{kullback}

\chapter{Chapter III.2}

\autocite{maron}
\autocite{massa}

\part{Part IV}

\chapter{Chapter IV.1}

\autocite{moore}

\chapter{Chapter IV.2}

\autocite{nussbaum}

\printbibliography

\clearpage
%%%%
% Book-wide bibliography
\newrefsection
\nocite{*}
\printbibliography[env=bookwidebib, category=workscited, title={Book-wide bibliography}]

\end{document}