Pandoc can automatically generate citations and a bibliography in a number of styles (using Andrea Rossato's hs-citeproc). In order to use this feature, you will need a bibliographic database in one of the following formats:
| Format | File extension
|
|---|---|
| MODS | .mods
|
| BibLaTeX | .bib
|
| BibTeX | .bibtex
|
| RIS | .ris
|
| EndNote | .enl
|
| EndNote XML | .xml
|
| ISI | .wos
|
| MEDLINE | .medline
|
| Copac | .copac
|
| JSON citeproc | .json
|
Note that .bib can generally be used with both BibTeX and BibLaTeX files, but you can use .bibtex to force BibTeX.
You will need to specify the bibliography file using the --bibliography command-line option (which may be repeated if you have several bibliographies).
By default, pandoc will use a Chicago author-date format for citations and references. To use another style, you will need to use the --csl option to specify a CSL 1.0 style file. A primer on creating and modifying CSL styles can be found at http://citationstyles.org/downloads/primer.html. A repository of CSL styles can be found at https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles. See also http://zotero.org/styles for easy browsing.
Citations go inside square brackets and are separated by semicolons. Each citation must have a key, composed of '@' + the citation identifier from the database, and may optionally have a prefix, a locator, and a suffix. Here are some examples:
Blah blah [see @doe99, pp. 33-35; also @smith04, ch. 1]. Blah blah [@doe99, pp. 33-35, 38-39 and *passim*]. Blah blah [@smith04; @doe99].
A minus sign (-) before the @ will suppress mention of the author in the citation. This can be useful when the author is already mentioned in the text:
Smith says blah [-@smith04].
You can also write an in-text citation, as follows:
@smith04 says blah. @smith04 [p. 33] says blah.
If the style calls for a list of works cited, it will be placed at the end of the document. Normally, you will want to end your document with an appropriate header:
last paragraph... # References
The bibliography will be inserted after this header.