You can use --standalone flag: https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#option--standalone

Then you can write a Lua filter which removes everything except a attributed tagged paragraph

# References {keep=true}

You need to check that attribute `keep` in the filter
as a start:

https://pandoc.org/lua-filters.html#setting-the-date-in-the-metadata
https://github.com/pandoc/lua-filters

Maybe something like:
```lua

function remove(block)

if block.attributes["keep"] == "true" then

return nil -- keep the block

end

else pandoc.List() -- remove the whole block

end

function Pandoc(el)
pandoc.walk_block(pandoc.Div(el.blocks), {Blocks = remove} )
os.exit(0)
end

```

Am 18.11.2020 um 13:07 schrieb King John Unn:

hello community,

I am a new user to pandoc. I am trying to generate the bibliography for a document. My template looks like this:

```

$body$
```

This allows me to create a plain text document from markdown without header, title, toc, etc.

```

body text with references...

References

reference 1

...

reference n

```

I want to remove the body, too and only stick with:

```

References

reference 1

...

reference n

```

```

Is it possible to generate the reference only? If possible i would like to further modify the format of references, too.
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