Omikhleia - Dragon BrumeuxBibliography interoperability is mostly a mirage.
There is no shared canonical model for bibliographic data: BibTeX, CSL-JSON, CFF, RIS, and others encode overlapping but incompatible views of the same reality.
Every converter is just a heuristic translator. We’ve optimized tools, not the model itself. Every ecosystem re-implements the same edge cases, calls it innovation, and ships the same mistakes again.
pandoc🆕 pandoc 3.8.2.1
This release fixes a citeproc-related performance regression.
The only document conversion change is support for dynamic blocks and block attributes in Org-mode.
Thanks to all who contributed!
Pandoc's citeproc doesn't distinguish between “author in text” citations and “normal” citations if a numeric CSL style is used. Both, `[@smith]` and `@smith` result in something like “[42]” in such cases.
However, @mxp wrote a Lua filter to work around this. The filter turns `as explained by @smith` into “as explained by Smith [42]”. Switching citation styles becomes nearly effortless this way.
Emiliano Heyns authored a filter to create docx and odt documents that have "live" citations, i.e., citations that are linked to a Zotero database:
https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/exporting/pandoc/index.html#from-markdown-to-zotero-live-citations
Markdown/Pandoc :: Better BibTeX for Zotero
In addition to LaTeX, BBT plays very well with pandoc: you can drag and drop citations from Zotero into your markdown documents. you can cite as you write in your favorite editor with varying levels of comfort, mostly depending on how easy (VSCode, Sublime) or hard (looking at you Scrivener) it is to extend your editor. you can even convert your markdown document into a LibreOffice/Word document with actual live Zotero items as if you had entered them into Zotero all along (see below) Use CSL, not bibtex with pandoc Many tutorials on the use of pandoc to generate documents with citations seem to use bibtex as a bibliography format. I would encourage the use of CSL instead. Internally, both Zotero and pandoc-citeproc use CSL citation engines; the two options you have are:
#Pandoc turns #citeproc-generated #citations into clickable links if the `link-citations` metadata field is set. E.g.,
pandoc -M link-citations --citeproc ...
UjuBib#OldiesButGoodies [2013] CSL is more than citation styles #csl #zotero #mendeley #citeproc https://blog.martinfenner.org/2013/08/08/csl-is-more-than-citation-styles/
Ryan P. Randall 
A thing I’m noticing as I learn tools like #pandoc and #citeproc is that there’s a very long tail to the learning curve. (Is that a mixed metaphor?) Just when I think I’ve got things working correctly in the bibliography, multi-part last names like van Dijk come along and are processed in ways I don’t expect.
I’m slowly putting together a somewhat narrative blog post about how I’m dealing with this sort of thing. I think those of us from the humanities appreciate narrative formats & examples!