Pandoc dubs itself a "markup format" converter. It can take a document in one of the supported formats and convert only its markup to another format. Maintaining the
look and feel of the document is not a priority. Plug-ins for custom formats can also be written in
Lua, which has been used to create an exporting tool for the
Journal Article Tag Suite, for example.
CiteProc An included
CiteProc option allows pandoc to use bibliographic data from
reference management software in any of five formats:
BibTeX,
BibLaTeX,
CSL JSON or CSL YAML, or
RIS. The information is automatically transformed into a
citation in various styles (such as
APA,
Chicago, or
MLA) using an implementation of the
Citation Style Language. Or the program can be used to convert any bibliographic data stream in the accepted formats into a list of citations in a chosen style. == Supported file formats ==