By default, in the LaTeX/PDF output the list of references will not appear here, but instead at the end of the document. For a possible work-around (which is also used here) see mcmtroffaes/sphinxcontrib-bibtex#156.
The list of references may look something like this:
.. bibliography:: :style: alpha
Warning
With docutils
versions 0.18 and 0.19,
the HTML output after the bibliography is broken,
see mcmtroffaes/sphinxcontrib-bibtex#309.
This problem has been fixed in docutils
version 0.20.