When a catalogue entry lists a bibliographic entry in short form, ex.
Passion for Antiquities 1994
it should automatically link back to the long-form reference in the catalogue-wide bibliography page:
Passion for Antiquities 1994
A Passion for Antiquities: Ancient Art from the Collection of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman.
Exh. cat. Malibu, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1994.
This probably means that each individual bibliographic reference needs an id, and each bibliographic entry in the catalogue text needs to be associated with a correct id.
An enhanced version of this feature would include the ability to view the full info of a short biblio entry on click/hover via AJAX request. This would probably require creating a site-wide data file like bibliography.yml as a central source of info.