typst citation prefix

[kbvernon]

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• installed the latest version of Quarto CLI
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Bug description

For format: typst with Typst's built-in APA style, a prefix (or any text) in citation is silently dropped.

I could not find a Quarto issue for this or any mention in the docs. It looks like this is a known issue in Pandoc. And there has been quite a lot of discussion in the Typst community, but I don't know what the current state of everything is re: Quarto + Typst citations and am looking for clarification.

Steps to reproduce

---
bibliography: test.bib
csl: apa
format: typst
---

Fixed Rank Kriging [FRK, @cressie2008]

And test.bib:

@article{cressie2008,
	title = {Fixed Rank Kriging for very large spatial data sets},
	author = {Cressie, Noel and Johannesson, Gardar},
	year = {2008},
	month = {02},
	date = {2008-02-01},
	journal = {Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology},
	pages = {209--226},
	volume = {70},
	number = {1},
	doi = {10.1111/j.1467-9868.2007.00633.x},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9868.2007.00633.x}
}

Actual behavior

Fixed Rank Kriging (Cressie & Johannesson, 2008)

Expected behavior

Fixed Rank Kriging (FRK, Cressie & Johannesson, 2008)

Your environment

Positron Version: 2026.03.0 (system setup) build 212
Code - OSS Version: 1.108.0
Commit: f3aae65e0a1a11d39226cd884520f49301daef82
Date: 2026-02-26T05:40:49.600Z
Electron: 39.2.7
Chromium: 142.0.7444.235
Node.js: 22.21.1
V8: 14.2.231.21-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200

Quarto check output

> quarto check
Quarto 1.8.26
[>] Checking environment information...
      Quarto cache location: C:\Users\kenne\AppData\Local\quarto
[>] Checking versions of quarto binary dependencies...
      Pandoc version 3.6.3: OK
      Dart Sass version 1.87.0: OK
      Deno version 2.3.1: OK
      Typst version 0.13.0: OK
[>] Checking versions of quarto dependencies......OK
[>] Checking Quarto installation......OK
      Version: 1.8.26
      Path: C:\Program Files\Quarto\bin
      CodePage: 1252

[>] Checking tools....................OK
      TinyTeX: v2025.09
      Chromium: (not installed)

[>] Checking LaTeX....................OK
      Using: TinyTex
      Path: C:\Users\kenne\AppData\Roaming\TinyTeX\bin\windows\
      Version: 2025

[>] Checking Chrome Headless....................OK
      Using: Chrome found on system
      Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe
      Source: Windows Registry

[>] Checking basic markdown render....OK

[>] Checking Python 3 installation....(None)

      Unable to locate an installed version of Python 3.
      Install Python 3 from https://www.python.org/downloads/

[>] Checking R installation...........OK
      Version: 4.5.0
      Path: C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-45~1.0
      LibPaths:
        - C:/Users/kenne/AppData/Local/R/win-library/4.5
        - C:/Program Files/R/R-4.5.0/library
      knitr: 1.51
      rmarkdown: 2.30

[>] Checking Knitr engine render......OK

[cscheid]

It looks like this is a known issue in Pandoc.

Note that I have done no investigation of this report yet! But if this is a known issue in pure Pandoc, then we're currently limited in how to fix it.

[gordonwoodhull]

It's really a Typst issue because you can't handle the parentheses correctly without e.g. #cite(prefix="FRK, ")

• Add prenote for cite typst/typst#3020

Well, I guess you can do show "(" because this is Typst... seems fragile though. 😄

#let pre-cite(..args, prefix: none) = {
  if prefix == none {
    cite(..args)
  } else {
    show "(": [(#prefix]
    cite(..args)
  }
}

typst/typst#3020 (comment)