9.5 Including uncited items in the bibliography

If you want to include items in the bibliography without actually citing them in the body text, you can define a dummy nocite metadata field and put the citations there:

---
nocite: |
  @item1, @item2
...

@item3

In this example, the document will contain a citation for item3 only, but the bibliography will contain entries for item1, item2, and item3.

It is possible to create a bibliography with all the citations, whether or not they appear in the document, by using a wildcard:

---
nocite: |
  @*
...

For LaTeX output, you can also use natbib or biblatex to render the bibliography. In order to do so, specify bibliography files as outlined above, and add the --natbib or --biblatex argument to the pandoc invocation. Bear in mind that bibliography files have to be in either BibTeX (for --natbib) or BibLaTeX (for --biblatex) format.