Question about omitting brackets in citation format

[Joseph Johnson <jj892-eicrhRFjby6OECnbzgFItQ@public.gmane.org>]

[-- Attachment #1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1797 bytes --]

Good morning,

First of all, I want to say thank you to John MacFarlane and to everyone 
who works on Pandoc. It is a truly wonderful tool.

If you have the chance, I'd be grateful for your advice about a citation 
format question. I've only just recently learned that in addition to the 
format *[@citekey, pagenum]*,  it is possible to omit the surrounding 
brackets, thus preventing parentheses from being inserted in citations 
within footnotes. If I understand correctly, following the examples in the 
User's Guide, it should be possible to write something in a footnote like 
"For more information, see *@citekey [pagenum],*" yielding the correct 
reference in the footnote without enclosing it in parentheses. 

However, whenever I attempt this, the page number remains within brackets 
in the outputted file. For example, using the Chicago style and citing page 
25, the result would be: "For more information, see *Author, Title (Place: 
Publisher, Year) [25]*." This seems to suggest that the page number is not 
actually being associated with the citation, and that it is just being 
outputted verbatim. 

The behavior is consistent when using different CSL stylesheets like MLA, 
on both macOS and Linux, using two different versions of Pandoc. I assume 
that I've misunderstood something, and would be grateful for advice.

Many thanks for your time, and all my best,
Joe

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/4910c58b-3d87-4783-a878-cc52191475a2n%40googlegroups.com.

[-- Attachment #1.2: Type: text/html, Size: 2239 bytes --]