How to insert formatted citations from bibliography

[kpj]

I was wondering what the best way of automatically inserting formatted citations into a marp presentation is.

It would be great if a BibTeX bibliography could be specified and contained citations could be referenced and inserted by their id. Possibly using something like citeproc.

[yhatt]

Citation is in out of CommonMark. You should use external plugin designed for Marpit or markdown-it, but I could not find out the suitable plugin. So I would have to say you can't do that.

Related: markdown-it/markdown-it#55

If you interested, you can make a plugin by own (but it would not be easy).
https://marpit-api.marp.app/
https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it/tree/master/docs

[kpj]

Thanks for your suggestion!

I'd imagine the general logic would be for the plugin to recognize some kind of marker with a citation id, and then to replace that marker with an appropriately formatted citation.
Would it be acceptable to use arbitrary HTML statements (e.g. something like <meta name="citation" content="meiser2020dna">) as markers?

[yhatt]

Close for housekeeping the issue tracker. The design of specific plugin is out of the scope of Marp team.