Yes, you can indicate the bibliography in a YAML metadata block.

Note, however, that you need to tell pandoc explicitly to
use the pandoc-citeproc filter

    --filter pandoc-citeproc

For backwards compatibility, it does this automatically when
you specify --bibliography on the command line. But not when
you have this in YAML metadata.

Stephen Mildenhall <stephen.j....@gmail.com> writes:

> My understanding is I can specify variables in yaml and use the
> yaml_metadata_block extension to pass them as metadata key value pairs to
> pandoc. Thus if my input file is:
>
> ---
> bibliography: somefile.bib
> ---
>
> Content and @references
>
>
> and I run
>
>>> pandoc -f markdown+yaml_metadata_block [other options]
>
> I should get the same result as
>
>>> pandoc -f markdown -M bibliography=somefile.bib [...]
>
> and the same as
>
>>> pandoc -f markdown -bibliography=somefile.bib.
>
> The last two versions, where I pass the biblio filename explicitly, work as
> expected. But going through the yaml block and using the extension does
> not. The csl= options is also ignored. But link-citations: true works from
> yaml when I use the explicit version.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Being able to control everything from the yaml would be fantastically
> helpful....so I hope there is a solution.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Steve
>
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