Possible to remove in-text references?

[alimoges42]

Hello, I recently started using Docling but so far have been unable to find a way to remove in-text references. For example, if I have the below section of text, is it possible to remove the numeric references? I'm planning to use this for academic purposes, so simply filtering out all numeric values using something like regex isn't an option, as I'd like to keep any relevant statistics and other numeric data intact.

Sample text:
"We found that treatment A was associated with increases in outcome X (p<0.05) as well as a 45% reduction in serum levels of marker Y (p<0.05). This further supports the work of Smith et al. (2025) in identifying this crucial pathway 16 ."

If the "16" at the end is an in-text reference to the theoretical Smith et al. paper, is it possible to remove the 16 from the text while leaving all the other numbers intact? If this is not currently possible within Docling, would anyone know of a good workaround?

Thanks in advance for any help!