error with citations with basictex

i am using basictex (https://www.tug.org/mactex/morepackages.html) rather than the heavy TexLive distribution. i have downloaded IEEEtran.cls file from https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/.

in this basic markdown file:

This is a reference to [@allen1957]

@altshuler2019 [p. 33] says blah.

with this .bib file:

@article{allen1957,
  title = {Symbolic {{Logic}}: {{A Razor-Edged Tool}} for {{Drafting}} and {{Interpreting Legal Documents}}},
  shorttitle = {Symbolic {{Logic}}},
  author = {Allen, Layman E.},
  date = {1957-05},
  journaltitle = {The Yale Law Journal},
  shortjournal = {The Yale Law Journal},
  volume = {66},
  number = {6},
  eprint = {794073},
  eprinttype = {jstor},
  pages = {833},
  issn = {00440094},
  doi = {10.2307/794073},
  url = {https://www.jstor.org/stable/794073?origin=crossref},
  urldate = {2023-10-09},
  langid = {english},
  file = {/Users/hamza/Zotero/storage/YI8TUGPL/Allen - 1957 - Symbolic Logic A Razor-Edged Tool for Drafting an.pdf}
}

@book{altshuler2019,
  title = {A Course in Semantics},
  author = {Altshuler, Daniel and Parsons, Terence and Schwarzschild, Roger},
  date = {2019},
  publisher = {{The MIT Press}},
  location = {{Cambridge, MA}},
  isbn = {978-0-262-04277-2},
  pagetotal = {225},
  keywords = {Semantics}
}

running pandoc --citeproc with the template.latex from this repo gives this error:

 $  >  pandoc --citeproc -o p.pdf t.md
[WARNING] Citeproc: citation allen1957 not found
[WARNING] Citeproc: citation altshuler2019 not found
 $  >  pandoc --bibliography=bibliography.bib --citeproc -o p.pdf t.md
 $  >  pandoc --csl=bibliography.csl --bibliography=bibliography.bib --citeproc -o p.pdf t.md
 $  >  pandoc --template=template.latex --csl=bibliography.csl --bibliography=bibliography.bib --citeproc -o p.pdf t.md
Error producing PDF.
! LaTeX Error: Lonely \item--perhaps a missing list environment.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...

l.97 \bibitem[\citeproctext]{ref-allen1957}

versions used; pandoc: 3.1.8 basictex: 2023.0314

stsewd / ieee-pandoc-template

error with citations with basictex #16