Citations and references can be formatted using any style supported
by the Citation Style Language,
listed in the Zotero Style
Repository. These files are specified using the --csl
option or the csl (or citation-style) metadata
field. By default, pandoc will use the Chicago Manual of Style
author-date format. (You can override this default by copying a CSL
style of your choice to default.csl in your user data
directory.) The CSL project provides further information on finding and editing
styles.
The --citation-abbreviations option (or the
citation-abbreviations metadata field) may be used to
specify a JSON file containing abbreviations of journals that should be
used in formatted bibliographies when form="short" is
specified. The format of the file can be illustrated with an
example:
{ "default": {
"container-title": {
"Lloyd's Law Reports": "Lloyd's Rep",
"Estates Gazette": "EG",
"Scots Law Times": "SLT"
}
}
}