I'm guessing your target format is ms? You're right that
something is missing here.  Why don't you submit an issue on the
tracker. (Ideally, including what the generated ms should look
like.)

"T. Kurt Bond" <tkurtbond-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:

> When I run
>
> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.  (See [REF1]_, p. 31.)
>
> References
> ==========
>
> .. [REF1]
>
>    `Reference 1`, First Author, Publisher One.
>
>
> through pandoc 2.14.0.1 I get
>
>  <#cb2-1>.LP <#cb2-2>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. <#cb2-3>(See \c
> <#cb2-4>.pdfhref L -D "REF1" -A "\c" \ <#cb2-5> -- "[REF1]"
> <#cb2-6>\&, p.\ 31.) <#cb2-7>.SH 1 <#cb2-8>References <#cb2-9>.pdfhref
> O 1 "References" <#cb2-10>.pdfhref M "references" <#cb2-11>.pdfhref M
> "citations" <#cb2-12>.IP "\f[B]REF1\f[R]" 3 <#cb2-13>Reference 1,
> First Author, Publisher One. <#cb2-14>.RS 3 <#cb2-15>.RE <#cb2-16>
>
> I see the .pdfhref L call to generate a link to a destination, but in
> “References” section I don't see any .pdfhref M calls to create the
> destination for the link.
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