diff --git a/eoatex2imxml.py b/eoatex2imxml.py
index b5007a9..ce56645 100755
--- a/eoatex2imxml.py
+++ b/eoatex2imxml.py
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 from utils.libeoabibitem import Bibitem
 import utils.libeoaconvert as libeoaconvert
 from utils.load_config import load_config, exec_command, check_executable, copy_dir_overwrite
+import utils.bib2html as bib2html
 
 # imports
 import argparse
@@ -1237,6 +1238,16 @@ def add_bibliography_to_xml(
     logging.info( "citekeys: ")
     logging.info( len( citekeys ) )
     csl_file = BASE_DIR / CONFIG['Auxiliaries']['CSL_FILE']
+
+    formatted_references = bib2html.main(
+        bib_file = Path(bib_database).with_suffix( ".bib" ),
+        citekeys = citekeys,
+        tex_template = BASE_DIR / "bibformat" / "4ht" / "bibliography4ht.tex",
+        language = strLanguage,
+        temp_dir = tmp_citation_filename
+    )
+
+    '''
     formatted_references = libeoaconvert.format_citations(
             citations_to_format,
             bib_database + ".bib",
@@ -1244,6 +1255,7 @@ def add_bibliography_to_xml(
             tmp_citation_filename,
             csl_file
         )[0]
+    '''
 
     fixed_entries = libeoaconvert.fix_bib_entries(formatted_references)
     for entry in fixed_entries:
@@ -1255,16 +1267,17 @@ def add_bibliography_to_xml(
 
 if bibl_info is None:
     logging.warning("No bibliography database found.")
+else:
+
+    (bib_type, bib_database) = bibl_info
+    logging.debug(f"bib type is {bib_type}")
 
-if bibl_info is not None:
     logging.info( ".bib -> .json")
     citations_json = write_json_bibl(
             bibl_info,
             output_file = TEMP_DIR / (INPUT_PATH_NO_EXT + "-bib.json")
     )
 
-    (bib_type, bib_database) = bibl_info
-    logging.debug(f"bib type is {bib_type}")
     ## only for debugging (?)
     make_latex_bibl_file(
             bib_database = bib_database,
@@ -1277,7 +1290,7 @@ def add_bibliography_to_xml(
 
     # If Bibliography-Type is monograph search for EOAbibliography and make it all
     if bib_type == "monograph":
-        tmp_citation_filename = TEMP_DIR / "used_citations-monograph"
+        tmp_citation_filename = TEMP_DIR / "bib2html" / "used_citations-monograph"
         if xmlTree.find(".//EOAprintbibliography") is not None:
             # to insert here: with keywords we can have multiple bibliographies
             xmlBibliography = xmlTree.find(".//EOAprintbibliography")
@@ -1294,7 +1307,7 @@ def add_bibliography_to_xml(
     elif bib_type == "anthology":
         for intChapterNumber, xmlChapter in enumerate(xmlChapters, start = 1):
             logging.debug(f"Looking at chapter {intChapterNumber}.")
-            tmp_citation_filename = TEMP_DIR / ("used_citations-anthology-chapter_{:02d}".format(intChapterNumber))
+            tmp_citation_filename = TEMP_DIR / "bib2html" / ("used_citations-anthology-chapter_{:02d}".format(intChapterNumber))
             if xmlChapter.find(".//EOAprintbibliography") is not None:
                 xmlBibliography = xmlChapter.find(".//EOAprintbibliography")
 
diff --git a/utils/bib2html.py b/utils/bib2html.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..7fadf0b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/bib2html.py
@@ -0,0 +1,208 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python -*-
+
+"""
+Docstring goes here
+"""
+
+__version__ = "1.0"
+__date__ = "20190313"
+__author__ = "kthoden@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de"
+
+import argparse
+import os
+import subprocess
+import shlex
+import logging
+import string
+from lxml import etree
+from pathlib import Path
+
+BASE_DIR = Path( __file__ ).resolve().parent.parent
+SCRIPT_PATH = Path( __file__ )
+SCRIPT_NAME = SCRIPT_PATH.name
+
+# logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG, format=' %(asctime)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s')
+
+NS_MAP = {"x" : 'http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'}
+
+def transform_reference(reference_element, dialect='html'):
+    """Formatting transformation for reference element"""
+
+    string_from_xml = etree.tostring(reference_element).decode('utf-8')
+    removed_linebreak = string_from_xml.replace("\n", "")
+    removed_namespace = removed_linebreak.replace('<p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="noindent">', '<p>')
+    cleaned_element = etree.fromstring(removed_namespace)
+
+    links = cleaned_element.xpath("a", namespaces=NS_MAP)
+    for link in links:
+        link.tag = "tagtobestripped"
+
+    ecti_span = cleaned_element.xpath("span[@class='ecti-1095']", namespaces=NS_MAP)
+    for ecti in ecti_span:
+        if dialect == 'tei':
+            ecti.tag = "hi"
+            ecti.set("rend", "italic")
+        else:
+            ecti.tag = "em"
+        ecti.attrib.pop('class')
+
+    ectt_span = cleaned_element.xpath("x:span[@class='ectt-1095']", namespaces=NS_MAP)
+    for ectt in ectt_span:
+        if dialect == 'tei':
+            ectt.tag = "hi"
+            ectt.set("rend", "monospace")
+        else:
+            ecti.tag = "code"
+        ectt.attrib.pop('class')
+
+    etree.strip_tags(cleaned_element, "tagtobestripped")
+
+    return cleaned_element
+# def transform_reference ends here
+
+def write_dummy_latex(
+        citekeys,
+        bibfile,
+        language,
+        template_path,
+        tmp_filename
+):
+    """Prepare a latex file"""
+
+    allcitekeys = ""
+
+    for key in citekeys:
+        allcitekeys += """
+\subsection*{%s}
+\subsubsection*{authoryear}
+\cite{%s}
+\subsubsection*{year}
+\cite*{%s}\n""" % (key, key, key)
+
+    with open(template_path, "r") as tmp_template:
+        template = tmp_template.read()
+
+    fill_in_template = string.Template(template)
+
+    bibfile_path = \
+        bibfile if bibfile.is_absolute() else Path.cwd() / bibfile
+    substitions = fill_in_template.substitute(
+            language = language,
+            # language = translations[language],
+            bibfile = bibfile_path,
+            # bibfile = '../' + bibfile,
+            citations = allcitekeys
+    )
+
+    with open(tmp_filename, "w") as texfile:
+        texfile.write(substitions)
+
+    logging.info(f"Wrote {tmp_filename}")
+# def write_dummy_latex ends here
+
+
+def run_htlatex(tmp_filename):
+    """Create HTML file from temporary LaTeX file"""
+
+    command = f"htlatex {tmp_filename}.tex 'xhtml,charset=utf-8' ' -cunihtf -utf8'"
+    arguments = shlex.split(command)
+    logging.info("Using external command htlatex with command %s" % command)
+    subprocess.call(arguments)
+
+    command = f"biber {tmp_filename}"
+    arguments = shlex.split(command)
+    logging.info("Using external command biber with command %s" % command)
+    subprocess.call(arguments)
+
+    command = f"htlatex {tmp_filename}.tex 'xhtml,charset=utf-8' ' -cunihtf -utf8'"
+    arguments = shlex.split(command)
+    logging.info("Using external command htlatex with command %s" % command)
+    subprocess.call(arguments)
+# def run_htlatex ends here
+
+
+def main(
+        bib_file,
+        citekeys,
+        tex_template,
+        language,
+        temp_dir,
+        tmp_filename = "temp"
+):
+    temp_dir = Path( temp_dir )
+    tmp_filename = Path( tmp_filename )
+
+    if not temp_dir.exists():
+        os.makedirs( temp_dir )
+
+    write_dummy_latex(
+            citekeys,
+            bib_file,
+            language,
+            template_path = tex_template,
+            tmp_filename = temp_dir / tmp_filename . with_suffix( ".tex" )
+    )
+
+    wd = Path.cwd()
+    os.chdir( temp_dir )
+    run_htlatex(tmp_filename)
+    os.chdir( wd )
+
+    tmp_path_html = (temp_dir / tmp_filename).with_suffix( ".html" )
+
+    xml_tree = etree.parse( str(tmp_path_html) )
+
+    reference_list = xml_tree.xpath(f"//x:dl[@class='thebibliography']", namespaces=NS_MAP)[0]
+    entries = reference_list.xpath(f"x:dt", namespaces=NS_MAP)
+
+    reference_div = etree.fromstring("""<div id="refs" class="references"></div>""")
+
+    for entry in entries:
+        entry_citekey = entry.get("id").replace("X0-", "")
+        reference_string = entry.xpath(f"following-sibling::x:dd[1]/x:p", namespaces=NS_MAP)[0]
+        formatted_reference = transform_reference(reference_string)
+        wrapper_div = etree.fromstring(f"""<div id="ref-{entry_citekey}"></div>""")
+        wrapper_div.append(formatted_reference)
+        reference_div.append(wrapper_div)
+    return reference_div
+
+    """
+    <h1 id="references" class="unnumbered">References</h1>
+    <div id="refs" class="references">
+    <div id="ref-Appadurai_1986">
+    <p>Appadurai, Arjun, ed. (1986). <em>The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective</em>. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.</p>
+    </div>
+    """
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument(
+            "bibfile",
+            help="File that contains the bibliography")
+    parser.add_argument(
+            "--tex-template",
+            default = BASE_DIR / "bibformat" / "4ht" / "bibliography4ht.tex",
+            help="the latex template to use for the bibliography"
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+            "--temp-dir",
+            default = "tmp_files",
+            help="where to store temporary files"
+    )
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    citekeys = ["Edwards_2017", "Riggs:2016aa", "Bruckler:2001aa", "Zdenek:1939aa", "Caraffa_2011", "Uhlikova:2010aa", "Noll:1992aa", "Schwarz:1931aa", "Schwartz_1995", "Faber:2015ab", "Rohacek:2010aa", "Lachnit:2005aa", "Groll:1865aa", "Schlosser:1934aa", "Eitelberger:1863ab", "Wirth:1939aa", "Faber:2015aa", "Trnkova:2015aa", "Trnkova:2010aa", "Frodl:1988aa"]
+    language = "de"
+
+    translations = {"de" : "german", "en" : "english", "it" : "italian", "fr" : "french"}
+
+    temp_dir = Path( args.temp_dir )
+    references_in_html = main(
+            bib_file = args.bibfile,
+            citekeys = citekeys,
+            tex_template = args.tex_template,
+            language = translations[language],
+            temp_dir = args.temp_dir
+    )
+    print( etree.tostring( references_in_html ) )
+# finis