Can you specify a custom location for an auto-generated document citation?

[brtarran]

Description

If you use the citation: true option in YAML, an auto-generated bibtext and text citation appears at the end of a Quarto document. I was wondering whether it is possible to specify the location that this citation appears, in the same way that you can use...

::: {#refs}
:::

...to specify the location that references appear when using a .bib file?

[cderv]

This should work as you expect
https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/footnotes-and-citations.html#bibliography-generation

Did you try this already ? Is this not working ?

[rgaiacs]

@brtarran was talking about Creating Citeable Articles. How to move

(screenshot from https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/images/appendix-citation.png) to the begin of the document.

[cderv]

Oh thank you for the screenshot. That help understand. Indeed I misundertood

[brtarran]

@brtarran was talking about Creating Citeable Articles. How to move

(screenshot from https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/images/appendix-citation.png) to the begin of the document.

Thank you. I should have explained with an example originally. Would have been clearer to all!

[mcanouil]

I don't believe there is a way as it is processed as the appendix of the document.

Or you have to use JavaScript for now:

---
title: "Quarto Playground"
format: html
citation: true
include-after-body:
  - text: |
      <script type="text/javascript">
      const header = document.querySelector('header');
      const appendixContents = document.querySelector('#quarto-appendix');
      header.insertAdjacentElement('afterend', appendixContents);
      </script>
---

This is a playground for Quarto.

[cderv]

I was thinking maybe change the style of appendix to plain and move the part around using placeholder in markdown and a Lua filter ?

@dragonstyle is the customization of automated generation of citation placement something that could be possible ?