easy mainstream citation workflow across latex and html targets

Currently if you wish to write citations in a jupyter notebook you must choose between the HTML Way

      <cite data-cite="granger2013">(Granger, 2013)</cite>

which is not supported by any major citation management software I'm aware of,

and the LaTeX Way

    \cite{granger2013}

which looks rubbish in the HTML version, but will export ok, and which is available as a drag-and-drop output format from, for example, Zotero.

@chrisjsewell implemented a regex-based converter for his nbconvert addon, ipypublish.

Additionally @takluyver implementd cite2c provide a JS-based extension which constructs this markup automatically, but it requires public references and only works for Zotero, which much as i like it, is not the only citation manager.

I wonder if this is the kind of thing that nbconvert should be offering natively? Or some other way of making the process of citing, which is a major use case for these processes, a little bit easier?

The ipypublish workflow has its own difficulties of course, but it seems like a commonly reported pain paint - every time I present jupyter to my academic colleagues, for example, I have a conversation where they say "Wow! I could almost write my papers in jupyter! but how do i cite my references?" and I say "er, you laboriously type in cite keys from some bibtex file wrapped in non-obvious html markup", and the conversation ends rapidly.

Understanding this is a non-trivial design problem, I'm nonetheless curious is there are any developments or plans here, or if cite2c and ipypublish are the best way forward?

jupyter / nbconvert

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