As of now, AFAIK there is no such option as `citation-package: pandoc|natbib|biblatex` for the Quarto PDF output front matter. 
This works in R Markdown via `citation_package`, but as I've just tried, not in Quarto so far. 

There are some special features of `biblatex` such as back references from bibliography onto inline citations, which are handy during reading and refactoring even if not allowed in the final documents (to the best of my knowledge, this is not possible via `pandoc` citations processor, though I may be errant). Notably, in LaTeX these are enabled via options `backref=true`, and for R Markdown this can be enabled with options `biblatexoptions: [backref=true]`, which is not supported in Quarto PDF options and ignorred if placed in YAML root. 

I understand that I can just add the pandoc flag `--biblatex` in cmd command to force biblatex citations processing and I even tried to write `--variable="biblatex:backref=true"` but the latter did nothing since this is probably not how this works. 

Of course I understand that currently I can just retain the `.tex` file and then run `latexmk` or any other engine with reference resolution pipeline.

Thanks in advance for any response!
2022-01-26T13:55:59Z
gjirokastrelbasanit34
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[Feature request] Allow config of biblatex as citation processor
https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/290