diff --git a/actions/issueflow-reconcile/issueflow-reconcile.sh b/actions/issueflow-reconcile/issueflow-reconcile.sh
index faf6c8d..f6166a2 100644
--- a/actions/issueflow-reconcile/issueflow-reconcile.sh
+++ b/actions/issueflow-reconcile/issueflow-reconcile.sh
@@ -208,14 +208,12 @@ claim_reclaim_marker() { # $1 = last activity epoch
 refs_references() { # PR body on stdin -> local issue numbers named by Refs
   awk '
     {
-      line = $0
-      lower = tolower(line)
-      if (match(lower, /(^|[^[:alnum:]_-])refs[[:space:]:]+/)) {
-        line = substr(line, RSTART + RLENGTH)
-        if (line ~ /^(#|([[:alnum:]_.-]+\/)?[[:alnum:]_.-]+#)[0-9]+/) {
-          sub(/[.(;].*/, "", line)
-          print line
-        }
+      rest = tolower($0)
+      while (match(rest, /(^|[^[:alnum:]_-])refs[[:space:]:]+(#|([[:alnum:]_.-]+\/)?[[:alnum:]_.-]+#)[0-9]+/)) {
+        token = substr(rest, RSTART, RLENGTH)
+        sub(/^.*refs[[:space:]:]+/, "", token)
+        print token
+        rest = substr(rest, RSTART + RLENGTH)
       }
     }
   ' | issue_references \