Could you explain why this works please? Also

my citations appear to be formatted as follows when I do this:

::: {#ref-MR0480398}
Veršik, A. M., and S. V. Kerov. 1977. "Asymptotic Behavior of the
Plancherel Measure of the Symmetric Group and the Limit Form of Young
Tableaux." *Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR* 233 (6): 1024--7.
:::

My pandoc command is

pandoc --bibliography master-bibtex.bib --filter pandoc-citeproc --metadata link-citations=true -t markdown+raw_tex-citations research_statement.tex -s -o research_statement-with-refs-1.md

On Sunday, May 10, 2015 at 11:23:09 PM UTC-4, John MacFarlane wrote:

+++ Jonathan Reeve [May 10 15 17:18 ]:
>I've been trying to convert a markdown file to another markdown file, but
>expand citations using pandoc-citeproc. I tried the command:
>
>pandoc -o rmwm-chapter-compiled2.md rmwm-chapter.md --filter pandoc-citeproc
>
>But citations are still there in the uncompiled format, i.e. [@Milesi1972
>3]. Is there a way to get the filter to work when converting markdown to
>markdown?

Sure. Use

-t markdown-citations

Here - = "minus"