Well, you don't say which reference manager you use, but if you use 
Bookends, and you'd consider using Alfred (I switched from Quicksilver), 
I've curated a set of Alfred tools including one which searches the 
database, and inserts your Pandoc formatted [@citation] in any text editor 
or word processor:

https://github.com/iandol/bookends-tools — becite tool

You bring up Alfred, type in an author and get an inline list of references 
in the Alfred window, then ⌘enter to paste the citation. I use it with 
Scrivener, which already has excellent integration with Bookends (⌘Y quick 
switches you between text⬄ref), when I know exactly the paper I want to 
cite.

On Saturday, 9 September 2017 01:15:34 UTC+8, Mendel Kranz wrote:
>
> I've been using a number of different writing programs recently, and each 
> time I make a switch I always run into the same problem, how to easily 
> insert citations. Most recently I've been satisfied with Sublime Text and 
> this plugin <https://github.com/sjpfenninger/citebibtex> that reads my 
> .bib file and easily inserts the pandoc citation. Now I'm fiddling with 
> Ulysses, and I've run into the problem again: how to easily access and 
> insert my citations. I plan on continuing to use a .bib file and convert 
> with pandoc.
>
> Since I use Launchbar, I thought that if there were a way to search 
> through my .bib file with that and insert my citation, this would make the 
> issues disappear. However, I'm really not sure how to do it. Essentially 
> I'm looking for the same functionality of that plugin just not tied to 
> sublime text. Any thoughts would be appreciated! 
>
> One related problem I run into with other options, is that I often have 
> one author with multiple books which can make searching through citekeys 
> difficult. For instance I may have 5 cite keys listed as @foo123, @foo345, 
> @foo678, etc. So if, when searching, it could display the author name and 
> book, and then insert the citekey that would be the best!
>
> PS I've seen some options such as this one by David Sanson 
> <https://github.com/dsanson/bibdesk-pandoc-export-templates> which uses 
> bibdesk, and this one which uses text expander 
> <https://github.com/andrewheiss/pandoc-citekeys>, both of which I've 
> found a little awkward. 
>

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