Pandoc’s approach appears to be mostly to keep citation in front matter or if inline then it would be via this XML based CSL format CSL 1.0.2 Specification — Citation Style Language 1.0.1-dev documentation .
However I’ve been wanting to do citation for note taking and it would be handy if I could write bibilography inline using Generic directives/plugins syntax style that we settled on at least for stuff like html IDs etc…
In this context I was trying to link to an academic paper in some non academic blog post but would love to also include some citation metadata in an inline manner… maybe like this?
[Understanding KaZaA](https://cse.engineering.nyu.edu/~ross/papers/UnderstandingKaZaA.pdf){author = "Jian Liang, Rakesh Kumar, Keith W. Ross", title = "Understanding KaZaA", year = "2004"}