You're going -f markdown+citations -t markdown-citations

So, you're converting from markdown with the citation
syntax [@foo] enabled, to markdown without the citation
syntax.  Pandoc handles this by printing the rendered
citation, rather than the citation code.  If you had
-t markdown+citations (or just -t markdown) you'd get
something like [@foo] instead.

I don't know if this addresses your question.

If you don't want the surrounding fenced div, you
can use -t markdown-citations-fenced_divs-native_divs-raw_html
and then you'll get

Veršik, A. M., and S. V. Kerov. 1977. "Asymptotic Behavior of the
Plancherel Measure of the Symmetric Group and the Limit Form of Young
Tableaux." *Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR* 233 (6): 1024--7.


Arjun Krishnan <arj...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:

> Could you explain why this works please? Also
> my citations appear to be formatted as follows when I do this:
>
> ::: {#ref-MR0480398}
> Veršik, A. M., and S. V. Kerov. 1977. "Asymptotic Behavior of the
> Plancherel Measure of the Symmetric Group and the Limit Form of Young
> Tableaux." *Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR* 233 (6): 1024--7.
> :::
>
> My pandoc command is
>
> pandoc --bibliography master-bibtex.bib --filter pandoc-citeproc --metadata
> link-citations=true -t markdown+raw_tex-citations research_statement.tex -s
> -o research_statement-with-refs-1.md
>
> On Sunday, May 10, 2015 at 11:23:09 PM UTC-4, John MacFarlane wrote:
>>
>> +++ Jonathan Reeve [May 10 15 17:18 ]:
>> >I've been trying to convert a markdown file to another markdown file, but
>> >expand citations using pandoc-citeproc. I tried the command:
>> >
>> >pandoc -o rmwm-chapter-compiled2.md rmwm-chapter.md --filter
>> pandoc-citeproc
>> >
>> >But citations are still there in the uncompiled format, i.e. [@Milesi1972
>> >3]. Is there a way to get the filter to work when converting markdown to
>> >markdown?
>>
>> Sure. Use
>>
>>     -t markdown-citations
>>
>> Here - = "minus"
>>
>>
>
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