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Reputation: 303

rmarkdown bibliography with user defined template

given the following reproducible example:

---
title: "pdf output by user defined tex template"
output:
    pdf_document:
      template: default.latex
#bibliography: bib.bib
---

```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
```

# About Pandoc metadata

https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#variables-for-latex

# Default tex templates

https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown-cookbook/latex-template.html

The default LaTeX template of Pandoc can be found at.

https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/tree/master/data/templates (named default.latex).

If you want to create your own template, you may want to start with this template.

# A reference to be cited in bibliography
here it is: @R-base

# References

! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.

on the other hand:

the template I'm using (starting from) is the default LateX template of Pandoc found at: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/blob/main/data/templates/default.latex

the bib file is containing just the following entry:

@Manual{R-base,
  title = {R: A Language and Environment for Statistical
           Computing},
  author = {{R Core Team}},
  organization = {R Foundation for Statistical Computing},
  address = {Vienna, Austria},
  year = {2019},
  url = {https://www.R-project.org},
}

my question is:

how to get a correct listing of the references in the case of a user defined "template" (which later I'm planning to customise to my needs with other variables)?

Should I enter something in the template file? And eventually how-to?

Any help much appreciated

Upvotes: 4

Views: 253

Answers (1)

maxbre
maxbre

Reputation: 303

the following seems to sort out the problem:

---
title: "pdf output by user defined tex template"
output:
    pdf_document:
      template: default.latex
      citation_package: biblatex
bibliography: bib.bib
---

without even the need to touch the default.latex template (!)

but there is a side effect...

...the reference to a specific citation style in the YAML header through the appropriate metadata i.e. csl: apa.csl seems not to affect the bibliography format in any way;

and now I should probably customise the template... but that's a new problem! :-(

Upvotes: 2

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