Thinking and searching hard for a solution, the closest I got was to use a DOCX template file with an enumeration in the references.

A disadvantage of this solution is that it is no longer possible to use the same CSL file for all output formats (because this would cause duplicate numbers in DOCX output; in this case it is necessary to remove the numbers).

There was a discription the same problem on https://community.rstudio.com/t/csl-style-is-not-recognized-when-output-in-word/143064. I think it would be nice to have a fix for beginners.

Stephan Boltzmann schrieb am Freitag, 16. Juni 2023 um 13:00:07 UTC+2:

Hello everybody out there using Pandoc-citeproc,

Generating a numbered list of references from Markdown with Pandoc-citeproc for LaTeX output works great and there is a nice indentation after each (sequential) number for all references.

This indentation is missing when generating DOCX (Word) documents for any citation style (CSL file) I have tried so far.

Each reference is displayed in according to

1. First author, second author: A long title with

a linebreak. Journal, Issue, Date, etc.

whereas I would prefere

1. First author, second author: A long title with

   a linebreak. Journal, Issue, Date, etc.

Is it possible to have this kind of indentation for list of references in DOCX documents?

Surprisingly, I could not find any solution about this issue by web search.

I made sure that the CSL files I use really included suitable indentation tags and also tried to adjust them but so for without success.

Are there additional diagnostics I could run to pin down the problem?