If you want to give Lua filters a try after all, have a look at jkr's 
section-ref filter:
https://github.com/jkr/lua-filters/tree/master/filters/section-refs

It has more features and is much cleaner than what I posted.

On Tuesday, January 9, 2018 at 8:23:50 AM UTC+1, Stefan Stiene wrote:
>
> Dear John and Albert,
> thanks for your solutions!
>
> I will go for Johns solution as I'm pandoc newbie and a little bit afraid 
> that lua filters will raise 5 additional questions ;-)
>
> Thanks
> Stefan
>
> Am Donnerstag, 4. Januar 2018 21:21:09 UTC+1 schrieb Albert Krewinkel:
>>
>> Forgot to add the link: 
>>
>> https://gist.github.com/tarleb/febcc78e5c7f6384299297232ab7dfe2 
>>
>> > As usual, I'd like to propose a lua-filter solution – I don't really 
>> > suggest using it though, as it's far too hacky in its current state. 
>> > 
>> > The filter splits the document in multiple sub-documents, runs 
>> > pandoc-citeproc on each of these, and then combines them back into a 
>> big 
>> > document.  It's not fully tests, doesn't work with metadata specified 
>> on 
>> > the command line (use YAML values instead), and is generally not useful 
>> > other than demonstrating the feasibility of using Lua filters for this. 
>>
>> -- 
>> Albert Krewinkel 
>> GPG: 8eed e3e2 e8c5 6f18 81fe  e836 388d c0b2 1f63 1124 
>>
>

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