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Technical or academic writers... if you use Zotero for your sources, and if you sync to Zotero ($ but not much $), you get API access to your Zotero stuff - you can just set up an API key.
Which means you can programmatically add a *tag* to all the items you are using in a paper.
And you can export a bib file filtered for the key.
So. then in your paper you can just cite your item (like if you use pandoc [@MyDocumentKey: 22-23] or what now).
Then you can automate the rest: run a script to list the docs you are citing (by citation key - I use Better BibText so I can rename those), and another to refresh your Zotero tags so you can automatically export the CORRECT bib file for your bibliography when you generate a bib file with a filtered list.
Also if you want to procrastinate you can write scripts instead of writing your paper.