This thread helped me to realize that pandoc doesn't have the kind of 
citations that I use in narrative footnotes. Often I could get what I want, 
but not always. What I really need in footnotes is the equivalent of a 
BibLaTeX \cite{}. I don't want AuthorInText, I just want InText. Like 
Joshua, I don't want to force the author name to be included in the 
citation. I realize that I can often achieve this by using prefixes and 
suffixes on a citation instead of making a footnote, but this won't work in 
all cases. Specifically, it doesn't allow the footnote to have two or more 
paragraphs. I've also had trouble writing footnotes with citations in 
multiple sentences: perhaps there's a workaround, but it seemed that there 
always had to be a semicolon separating citations.

So if both AuthorInText and InText citations are needed, what syntax could 
be used? One idea would be to take @smith04 as an in-text citation, 
+@smith04 as an author-in-text citation, and -@smith04 as an authorless 
in.-text citation. That seems logical to me, but has the disadvantage of 
changing the meaning of @smith04. Another option would be to use attributes 
or classes to specify citation types, like [@smith04]{.intext}.

On Wednesday, November 11, 2020 at 9:12:47 PM UTC+1 John MacFarlane wrote:

> Joshua <joshu...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes: 
>
> > Thanks for such a helpful, prompt reply. I've loved pandoc for a long 
> time, 
> > but I had no idea the support was this good. You have a superb project 
> here. 
> > 
> > After consulting the style guides, it looks like pandoc is keeping with 
> the 
> > times and I am not. I'm still a bit confused about your response to the 
> > second issue, though. Suppose I type: 
> > Blah.^[@AugustineCityGod2008, 72.] Blah.^[Compare to the competing claim 
> in 
> > @AugustineCityGod2008, 46.] 
> > 
> > This then renders: 
> > [1] Augustine, *City of God*, 72. 
> > [2] Compare to the rather different claim in Augustine, ibid, 46. 
> > 
> > Whereas the behavior I intend: 
> > [1] Augustine, *City of God*, 72. 
> > [2] Compare to the rather different claim in ibid, 46. 
> > 
> > This is the behavior I achieved before upgrading pandoc, but I do not 
> > understand the directives I need to give in order to achieve it now. Or 
> > maybe I simply cannot. 
>
> It's usually better just to use inline references; in a note 
> style they will be automatically converted to notes. 
>
> So do this: 
>
> Blah [@AugustineCityGod2008, 72]. Blah [Compare to the competing claim in 
> @AugustineCityGod2008, 46]. 
>
> This uses regular citations, not author-in-text citations. 
> Not only will it give you the ibid you want, it will also allow 
> you to switch easily to an author-date citation style if you 
> wish. 
>
> Pandoc will automatically create the notes and rearrange spacing 
> and punctuation. 
>

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