I use a bibtex file, and you are correct, I don't have any short titles 
specified. But I was under the impression that bibtex/pandoc would 
automatically shorten titles so that the short title is whatever appears 
before the colon--is this not correct?

A reference might look like this:

@Book{somekey,

author = {Doe, Jane}, 

title = {{This is a title: with a subtitle}}, 

publisher = {Yale University Press}, 

address = {New Haven}, 

year = {year}, 



On Thursday, July 29, 2021 at 7:41:42 AM UTC-5 denis...-NSENcxR/0n0@public.gmane.org wrote:

> How do you supply your bibliographic references? A bibtex-file? CSL-JSON 
> export from Zotero?
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> And, can you please show us a bit of your reference database. The most 
> likely case is that you don’t have a shorttitle defined.
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> Denis
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> *Von:* pandoc-...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org <pandoc-...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org> *Im 
> Auftrag von *MK
> *Gesendet:* Dienstag, 27. Juli 2021 16:18
> *An:* pandoc-discuss <pandoc-...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org>
> *Betreff:* Using short titles in subsequent citations
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> Hi, I'm sure I must be doing something wrong, but I can't figure this out. 
> I'd like for the first instance of a reference to use the first title and 
> all subsequent instances to use a shortened title (whatever appears before 
> the colon). So for example the first instance would be:
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> Jane Doe, *Some Book: Which is Really Good *(Place: Press, Year)
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> While the second should be:
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> Doe, *Some Book*
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> However, each time it reprints the entire title, so even on the second 
> instance it would be: Doe, *Some Book: Which is Really Good.*
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> I'm using Chicago CSL and have tried both the one called 'full note, with 
> ibid.' and 'full note, short title subsequent.' 
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