# Recognise pandoc citations as Obsidian links **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature requests\ **Created:** [May 2, 2021, 6:51pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/recognise-pandoc-citations-as-obsidian-links/17528 "2021-05-02T18:51:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 10
**Author:** ![melsophos](https://forum.obsidian.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f17d59/32.png) [@melsophos](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/melsophos)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 12:44am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/recognise-pandoc-citations-as-obsidian-links/17528/10 "2021-05-12T00:44:11Z")
> [@lyndondrake](#): > > > [@argentum](#): > > > > Making pandoc style citations links should open the original reference, not my notes (often with my own ideas) about it. > > What about: when a citation link is clicked, it offers options, which include “Open note”, “Open reference item”, “Open linked PDF”? That preserves the optionality while giving access to the literature note functionality. > > The other key thing is backlinks from the literature note to all citations… I am quite sympathetic to this possibility, because from a citation in one of my note, I should be able to access easily both the source information and my comments on that work. However, I don’t think it’s incompatible with the view from @argentum and @WhiteNoise. In preview mode one can add a link next to the bibliographical information to the literature note (if it exists). For edit mode, it’s fine to link directly to the literature note (if it exists): if one follows the proposal from the FR [Support Pandoc-style citations with Citeproc-js engine @citekey [@citekey] and relative Bibliography](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/support-pandoc-style-citations-with-citeproc-js-engine-citekey-citekey-and-relative-bibliography/17549), bibliographical information would be displayed in another pane or preview and there is no meaning to make a link to it. When exporting or using publish, links to literature notes should be omitted (for the reasons argued above). --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/recognise-pandoc-citations-as-obsidian-links/17528)._