diff --git a/base/proposal.dtx b/base/proposal.dtx
index 636c08e..ca14e58 100644
--- a/base/proposal.dtx
+++ b/base/proposal.dtx
@@ -2444,15 +2444,18 @@ joint&\multicolumn{\the@site}{l|}{\jpub $\hat=$ publication, \jpro $\hat=$ proje
 % \end{macro}
 %
 % \begin{macro}{\prop@paperlist}
-%   We generate a subsection with a |refsection| (this makes a separate bibliography for
-%   this section) and activate the keys via |\nocite|. Then we just print the bibliography
-%   with the empty header we created before.
+%   |\prop@paperlist{|\meta{keys}|}{|\meta{refs}|}| generates a paper list from a list
+%   \meta{keys} of bibliography keys. It makes some local adaptions to the appearance of
+%   the bibliography, and then adds \meta{refs} to the citable papers marks them as
+%   |featured|. Then it uses |\printbibliography| to make a bibliography of the cited
+%   papers. Note that these are not cited again in the main bibliography\ednote{MK: we may
+%   want to make this optional controlled by a package option eventually.}
 %    \begin{macrocode}
 \newcommand\prop@paperlist[2][]{%
 \let\biboldfont\bibfont%
 \renewcommand{\bibfont}{\footnotesize}%
-\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{.9}
-\def\do##1{\addtocategory{featured}{##1}}\docsvlist{#2}%
+\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{.9}%
+\nocite{#2}\def\do##1{\addtocategory{featured}{##1}}\docsvlist{#2}%
 \setkeys{paperlist}{#1}
 \@ifundefined{prop@rl}{}{\@latex@warning{some papers are not classified!}}
 \if@allpapers\printbibliography[category=featured,heading=empty]\fi%
diff --git a/dfg/dfgproposal.dtx b/dfg/dfgproposal.dtx
index a33d6b0..4d0be88 100644
--- a/dfg/dfgproposal.dtx
+++ b/dfg/dfgproposal.dtx
@@ -133,12 +133,9 @@
 % 
 % Since August 2010, DFG requests list of ``project-related papers'' as section 2.2. We
 % use the |biblatex| package to automate this. We only need to use
-% \DescribeMacro{\dfgprojpapers}|\dfgprojpapers{|\meta{keys}|}|, where \meta{keys} is a
-% comma-separated list of keys from the bibTeX database used in the proposal. Note that
-% you will have to run |bibtex -min-crossrefs=999 proposal1-blx.aux| to generate file
-% |proposal1.bbl| that generates the bibliography list. To automate this (at least on Unix
-% systems), we have added the field |Makefile.template|, which allows you do do any
-% necessary steps by just typing |make|. 
+% \DescribeMacro{\dfgprojpapers}|\dfgprojpapers[|\meta{keys}|]{|\meta{refs}|}|, where
+% \meta{keys} that specify what papers are selected and \meta{refs} is a comma-separated
+% list of bibtex keys from the bibTeX database used in the proposal. 
 % 
 % The papers listed in |\dfgprojpapers| are put into a special bib\LaTeX category
 % \DescribeMacro{featured}|featured|, and can thus be excluded from the general
diff --git a/dfg/examples/proposal/Makefile b/dfg/examples/proposal/Makefile
index beed5c7..332b947 100644
--- a/dfg/examples/proposal/Makefile
+++ b/dfg/examples/proposal/Makefile
@@ -16,8 +16,7 @@ TARGET.aux 	= $(TARGET:%.tex=%.aux)             # their aux files.
 PDATA 		= $(PROPOSAL:%.tex=%.pdata)       # the proposal project data
 SRC = $(filter-out $(TARGET),$(shell ls *.tex))   # included files
 PDFLATEX = pdflatex -interaction batchmode -file-line-error
-BBL.base = 1 
-BBL = $(PROPOSAL:%.tex=%.bbl) $(BBL.base:%=$(PROPOSAL:%.tex=%)%-blx.bbl)
+BBL = $(PROPOSAL:%.tex=%.bbl) 
 PROPCLS.dir = $(PROP.dir)/base
 PROPETC.dir = $(PROP.dir)/etc
 DFGPROPCLS.dir = $(PROP.dir)/dfg
diff --git a/dfg/examples/proposal/proposal.pdf b/dfg/examples/proposal/proposal.pdf
index 67937f6..5cea2b6 100644
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diff --git a/dfg/examples/proposal/proposal.tex b/dfg/examples/proposal/proposal.tex
index 6feedb5..1fcd664 100644
--- a/dfg/examples/proposal/proposal.tex
+++ b/dfg/examples/proposal/proposal.tex
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
 \input{../lib/WApersons}
 
-
 \begin{document}
 
 \begin{center}\color{red}\huge
diff --git a/dfg/examples/proposal/state.tex b/dfg/examples/proposal/state.tex
index 245c513..b3b37a1 100644
--- a/dfg/examples/proposal/state.tex
+++ b/dfg/examples/proposal/state.tex
@@ -37,10 +37,9 @@
     publications so far.
 \end{todo}
 
-\subsubsection{Peer-Reviewed Articles}
+\subsubsection{Peer-Reviewed Articles}\label{sec:peer-rev}
 
 \dfgprojpapers{Kohlhase:pdpl10,providemore}
-
 \ednote{Anmerkung Jens: Ein nützliches Feature wäre hier, wenn das Paket eine (eventuell
   über Optionen der Dokumentklasse unterdrückbare) Warnung ausgeben würde, wenn zu viele
   Publikationen entsprechend DFG-Richtlinien angegeben werden. Die Anzahl ist sehr eng
diff --git a/dfg/examples/simple-proposal/Makefile b/dfg/examples/simple-proposal/Makefile
index 34237fa..6b69c8f 100644
--- a/dfg/examples/simple-proposal/Makefile
+++ b/dfg/examples/simple-proposal/Makefile
@@ -16,8 +16,7 @@ TARGET.aux 	= $(TARGET:%.tex=%.aux)             # their aux files.
 PDATA 		= $(PROPOSAL:%.tex=%.pdata)       # the proposal project data
 SRC = $(filter-out $(TARGET),$(shell ls *.tex))   # included files
 PDFLATEX = pdflatex -interaction batchmode -file-line-error
-BBL.base = 1 
-BBL = $(PROPOSAL:%.tex=%.bbl) $(BBL.base:%=$(PROPOSAL:%.tex=%)%-blx.bbl)
+BBL = $(PROPOSAL:%.tex=%.bbl)
 PROPCLS.dir = $(PROP.dir)/base
 PROPETC.dir = $(PROP.dir)/etc
 DFGPROPCLS.dir = $(PROP.dir)/dfg
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