How do I include a prefix with a citation group?

[cbrnr]

Description

I would like to include a prefix ("e.g., ") in a citation group, but I can't seem to figure out how to do that.

If I just include the prefix at the beginning of the group, it gets moved if the citation style involves sorting. If I include the prefix in all citations within the group (something that seems to be supported by pandoc), the prefix is also rendered in front of each citation.

Here's a reproducible example (put all three files in a directory and run quarto preview prefix.qmd):

prefix.qmd

---
title: "Citation prefix"
format: html
bibliography: refs.bib
csl: apa.csl
---

The issue appears in the next sentence.

blabla [e.g., @zeta2021;@alpha2020].

A second sentence shows that repeating the prefix does *not* work with Quarto:

blabla [e.g., @zeta2021;e.g., @alpha2020].

refs.bib

@article{alpha2020,
  author  = {Alpha, Alice},
  title   = {First paper},
  journal = {Journal of Examples},
  year    = {2020},
}

@article{zeta2021,
  author  = {Zeta, Zoe},
  title   = {Second paper},
  journal = {Journal of Examples},
  year    = {2021},
}

apa.csl

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/citation-style-language/styles/refs/heads/master/apa.csl

Expected output

The citations should be rendered as follows:

(e.g., Alpha, 2020; Zeta, 2021)

Actual output

First sentence:

(Alpha, 2020; e.g., Zeta, 2021)

Second sentence:

(e.g., Zeta, 2021; e.g., Alpha, 2020)

[mcanouil]

What version of Quarto CLI are you using?

See below with b19f1e1

If the code below works, then the issue lies in your CSL file.
Note that you can also try to use Pandoc directly (quarto pandoc ...) as there is nothing specific to Quarto here.

Input

Output

--- title: "Reproducible Quarto Document" format: html references: - id: canouil_jointly_2018 author: - family: Canouil given: Mickaël - family: Balkau given: Beverley - family: Roussel given: Ronan - family: Froguel given: Philippe - family: Rocheleau given: Ghislain container-title: Frontiers in Genetics doi: 10.3389/fgene.2018.00210 issued: 2018 title: "Jointly Modelling Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms With Longitudinal and Time-to-Event Trait: An Application to Type 2 Diabetes and Fasting Plasma Glucose" type: article-journal journal-title: "Frontiers in Genetics*" - id: smith_2020 author: - family: Smith given: John - family: Doe given: Jane container-title: Journal of Reproducible Research issued: 2020 title: "Reproducibility in Research" type: article-journal journal-title: "Journal of Reproducible Research" --- ## Using good spacing - [@canouil_jointly_2018; @smith_2020] - [e.g., @canouil_jointly_2018; @smith_2020] - [e.g., @canouil_jointly_2018; e.g., @smith_2020] ## Using bad spacing - [@canouil_jointly_2018;@smith_2020] - [e.g., @canouil_jointly_2018;@smith_2020] - [e.g., @canouil_jointly_2018;e.g., @smith_2020]

[cderv]

Note that you can also try to use Pandoc directly (quarto pandoc ...) as there is nothing specific to Quarto here.

@cbrnr I would try this too. You should get an example using Pandoc only. Possibly this is Pandoc's citeproc that does not handle some specificity of apa.csl.

Sharing a Pandoc example rather than Quarto in citation-style-language/styles#7590 could also help them understand the problem.

Hope it helps

[cbrnr]

Thanks, I'll try that!

[cbrnr]

See https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/10892.

[mcanouil]

@cbrnr You Should not bypass issue template when there is one especially if you don't provide the means to reproduce. As is, your new issue is unlikely to lead to what you expect as there is nothing actionable in it.
https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/new?template=bug_report.md

To be clear, Christophe and I suggested for you to try to use Pandoc directly to show the issue, not to open a new issue without any reproducible example.

Also Pandoc has the GitHub Discussion board: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/discussions

[cbrnr]

I forgot to include the example (which I did previously for the CSL repo), thanks for the reminder.