It is not that uncommon to refer to citations within something already in parentheses or to have the citation in parentheses along with a cross reference to a table, figure, or equation. In those cases it can be nice to separate each element by a semi-colon rather than having back to back parentheses e.g. "(Figure 3; Name 2022)" as opposed to "(Figure 3) (Name 2022)". This issue has been raised on [stackoverflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64209134/r-markdown-suppress-parentheses-in-specific-citations), but there was never an accepted answer. Perhaps there could be (or already is) some syntax for this in quarto? 
2022-06-14T19:30:59Z
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Supress parentheses around specific citations [Feature Request]
https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/1155