[Tex/LaTex] LaTeX + Biblatex bibliography to other formats via Pandoc

biblatexpandoc

I am trying to convert a simple LaTeX file that uses biblatex-chicago for citation formatting to, say, .docx via Pandoc. Unfortunately, I don't seem to be able to find the right invocation of Pandoc that results in a bibliography (or even the citations) included in the doc.

What I'm proposing doesn't have any complicated formulas, tables, or figures–just the bibliography. This question's author seems to have gotten the bibliography working with Pandoc, though it appears he's maybe using straight up bibtex with maybe the natbib citation commands.

Sample LaTeX (foo.tex):

% !TeX TS-program = pdflatexmk
% !BIB TS-program = biber

\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper]{article} % for a short document

% Bibliography
\usepackage[authordate,strict,bibencoding=inputenc,doi=true,isbn=false,backend=biber]{biblatex-chicago}
\addbibresource{./foo.bib}


\title{On Banality}
\author{Bob Dwyre}

\date{}

%%% BEGIN DOCUMENT
\begin{document}

\raggedbottom
\maketitle

People typically prefer to travel shorter distances than longer distances \parencite{zipf1946p1}. \textcite{dijkstra1959note} proposes one way of finding the shortest path.

\printbibliography
\end{document}

And a sample .bib (foo.bib):

@article{dijkstra1959note,
    Author = {Dijkstra, Edsger W},
    Date-Added = {2014-04-28 19:35:12 +0000},
    Date-Modified = {2014-04-28 19:35:12 +0000},
    Journal = {Numerische mathematik},
    Number = {1},
    Pages = {269--271},
    Publisher = {Springer},
    Title = {A note on two problems in connexion with graphs},
    Volume = {1},
    Year = {1959}}

@article{zipf1946p1,
    Author = {Zipf, George Kingsley},
    Date-Added = {2014-04-28 19:32:00 +0000},
    Date-Modified = {2014-04-28 19:32:00 +0000},
    Journal = {American sociological review},
    Pages = {677--686},
    Publisher = {JSTOR},
    Title = {The P1 P2/D hypothesis: On the intercity movement of persons},
    Year = {1946}}

My invocation of Pandoc is as follows, but I see nothing related to bibliography in the final output:

pandoc -o foo.docx foo.tex --biblatex --bibliography=foo.bib

Best Answer

The --biblatex option only applies when the output document is LaTeX format. When I tried pandoc --bibliography=foo.bib -o foo.docx foo.tex it worked for me. If you want Chicago you need to add an option for that e.g. --csl=chicago-author-date.csl. You can get the CSL file from github.com/citation-style-language/styles.

Related Question