I am confused by Quarto's treatment of citations and hoping someone can help clarify. The documentation states
> Quarto uses Pandoc to format citations and bibliographies. By default, Pandoc will use the [Chicago Manual of Style](https://chicagomanualofstyle.org/) author-date format, but you can specify a custom formatting using CSL ([Citation Style Language](https://citationstyles.org/)).

However, just above that passage documentation states that 
`Blah Blah [see @knuth1984, pp. 33-35;
also @wickham2015, chap. 1]` 

will produce

> Blah Blah [see Knuth ([1984](https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/footnotes-and-citations.html#ref-knuth1984)), pp. 33-35; also Wickham ([2015](https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/footnotes-and-citations.html#ref-wickham2015)), chap. 1]

This is the output rendered by Quarto. However, to the best of my knowledge this is **_not_** Chicago [author-date](https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-2.html) format. I'm unaccustomed to seeing Chicago inline citation (or really any author date styles) use `[]` characters when page numbers are referenced. A properly formatted Chicago author-date inline citation would I believe read.

> Blah Blah (see Knuth 1984, pp. 33-35; also Wickham 2015, chap. 1)

I explicitly declared in the YAML `csl: chicago-author-date.csl` but to no avail, the default output was still rendered. I changed it to `evolutionary-anthropology.csl` and got numbered citations as expected, though page numbers still seem wrong to me (but I would need to dig into this further).

Finally, when the equivalent to `Blah Blah [see @knuth1984, pp. 33-35;
also @wickham2015, chap. 1]`  is knitted in an .Rmd outside of Quarto it produces 

> Blah Blah (see Knuth 1984, pp. 33-35; also Wickham 2015, chap. 1)

How to achieve this in Quarto, and perhaps some insight on why it is different would be incredibly helpful. In terms of citation, switching from .Rmd to .Qmd it seems will require some fiddling which feels like a departure from the overall intent of Quarto. I believe I'm missing something.

_Originally posted by @n8craig in https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/discussions/504_
dragonstyle
2022-04-02T13:54:32Z
dragonstyle
closed
Incorrect escaping braces around citations
https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/505