Automatic formatting of possessive apostrophes for citations

[hgoers]

Description

Hello,

Can you please add a feature to Quarto's citations rendering that automatically formats possessive apostrophes?

For example, it would be great if the following: @smith2024's theory of X touches on Y. rendered to produce: Smith's (2024) theory of X touches on Y.

I can get this output from the following: Smith's [-@smith2024] theory of X touches on Y. but it would be lovely if I did not have to type out author's name and citation key.

Thanks in advance!

[cscheid]

Unfortunately I think that's going to be hard for Quarto to do. Quarto doesn't actually directly control the generation of the citation text; we use Pandoc's processor ("citeproc"), which in turn uses CSL: https://citationstyles.org/

It might be possible to create a CSL file that causes the citations to render correctly in this case. I do think it's unlikely, because the typographical conventions and interaction with the grammatical rules of English are pretty intricate here.