My apologies for my poor issue report. My pandoc version is 2.11.0.4
by this example you provided:
---
title: "Untitled"
date: "`r Sys.Date()`"
output: html_document
bibliography: packages.bib
csl: https://www.zotero.org/styles/vancouver-brackets-only-year-no-issue
---
# A header
```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::write_bib("knitr", "packages.bib")```
See [@R-knitr]
# References
I can reproduce the issue
Extra info:
R version 4.0.3 (2020-10-10)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Manjaro Linux
Matrix products: default
BLAS: /usr/lib/libblas.so.3.9.0
LAPACK: /usr/lib/liblapack.so.3.9.0
locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
[3] LC_TIME=en_AU.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_AU.UTF-8
[5] LC_MONETARY=en_AU.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_AU.UTF-8
[7] LC_PAPER=en_AU.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C
[9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_AU.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C ```