Citing references by the label

Question

I have a document with a list of references that I would like enumerated alphabetically, e.g.:

A.  Document ABCD by Tom Bloggins
B.  Article WXYZ by Bill Shawinigan
C.  Etc.

And I would like to cite them in the text as follows:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet (Ref A), consectetur adipiscing elit (Ref B), etc. etc.

How can I achieve this?

MWE:

\documentclass[titlepage]{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{thebibliography}{1}
\bibitem{astronaut}
A. Chris Hatfield, "I'm Awesome"
\end{thebibliography}
\section{Introduction}
 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet \cite{astronaut}, consectetur adipiscing elit, etc. etc.
\end{document}

Answer 1

I got my inspiration from this answer and with a little help from Stephan I found a package that might suit your needs.

If by enumerated alphabetically you mean alphanumeric references then this should solve your problem (keep scrolling down).

If however you need them to be alphabetically sorted then just use :

\usepackage{natbib}

or

\usepackage[style=nty]{biblatex}

Depending on your preference.

Now to the alphanumeric sorting:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\usepackage[backend=bibtex,style=numeric]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{references.bib}
\usepackage{alphalph} %This package allows you to convert numbers to letters alphabetically.
\DeclareFieldFormat{labelnumber}{\AlphAlph{#1}} % this command is to redefine the label. 
\begin{filecontents*}{references.bib}
@article{astronaut,
    author = {A. Chris Hatfield},
    title = {I'm Awesome}
}
@article{cosmonaut,
    author = {John. Jack Hatfield},
    title = {You Awesome}
}
\end{filecontents*}

\begin{document}
\printbibliography

\section{Introduction}
 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet \cite{astronaut}, consectetur adipiscing elit, \cite{cosmonaut} etc. etc. 
\end{document}

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