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In BibLaTeX it is possible to specify an abbreviation for an author, so that the short term is used in citations and the long term in the bibliography:

@misc{nasa,
    author = {{National Aeronautics and Space Administration}},
    shortauthor = {{NASA}},
    title = {Rocket Science},
    year = 2019
}

Then the text becomes:

Rocket science is difficult (NASA 2019).

And the bibliography:

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 2019, "Rocket Science".

Is this behaviour possible using pandoc-citeproc?

In case this is relevant, my Pandoc command is pandoc chapters/*.md --standalone --filter pandoc-fignos --filter pandoc-citeproc --template template.tex --top-level-division=part --listings --output out.pdf and the References section looks like this:

---
bibliography: references.bib
link-citations: true
nocite: '@*'
---
## References {.unnumbered}

In the Pandoc manual, I came across a --citation-abbreviations option which sounds like it could be what I'm after, but I couldn't find further useful documentation for it.

Christallkeks
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  • The documentation would be here: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc-citeproc/blob/master/man/pandoc-citeproc.1.md – mb21 Jan 08 '19 at 15:48
  • Do you mean that one short paragraph? I was hoping for something more extensive... To make things worse, the link to where the format is supposed to be described returns a 404. The Wayback Machine [comes to rescue](https://web.archive.org/web/20160731173816/http://citationstylist.org:80/2011/10/19/abbreviations-for-zotero-test-release/) once more, but reveals an unfinished blog post without an example instead of proper docs. Alas, I realised that this extension seems to go into a different direction than what I need. – Christallkeks Jan 08 '19 at 18:10
  • Maybe ask on [pandoc-discuss](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pandoc-discuss)... – mb21 Jan 08 '19 at 19:49
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    Thanks for the suggestion, I didn't know of that mailing list. [Now this question became my first post there.](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pandoc-discuss/3LVirBBVStg). – Christallkeks Jan 09 '19 at 21:06

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