Pandoc insert appendix after bibliography

Question

I'm using the knitr package and pandoc in R to convert a .Rmd file to a PDF. Pandoc is linked to a .bib file and automatically inserts the bibliography at the end of the PDF The entries in my .bib file look like these, taken from http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/demo/biblio.bib:

@Book{item1,         author="John Doe",         title="First Book",         year="2005",         address="Cambridge",         publisher="Cambridge University Press"   }  @Article{item2,          author="John Doe",          title="Article",          year="2006",          journal="Journal of Generic Studies",          volume="6",          pages="33-34" } 

To build my bibliography, I'm using the following function, taken from: http://quantifyingmemory.blogspot.co.il/2013/02/reproducible-research-with-r-knitr.html

knitsPDF <- function(name) {   library(knitr)   knit(paste0(name, ".Rmd"), encoding = "utf-8")   system(paste0("pandoc -o ", name, ".pdf ", name, ".md --bibliography /Users/.../Desktop/test.bib --csl /Users/.../Desktop/taylor-and-francis-harvard-x.csl")) } 

The contents of my .Rmd file is:

This is some text [@item1]  This is more text [@item2]  # References 

And outputted PDF looks like this:

If I try to insert an appendix, the references still print at the end of the document, like this:

How do insert an appendix after the references?

Answer 1

With newer pandoc versions, you can specify the bibliography's position with <div id="refs"></div> source

This is some text [@item1]  This is more text [@item2]  # References  <div id="refs"></div>  # appendix 

Answer 2

Eventually reference handling will change to make it possible to put the references wherever you like (https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/771), but right now there's no easy way to do it.

As suggested here, you could put your appendix in a separate file, use pandoc to convert it to a LaTeX fragment, then include that fragment using the --include-after-body flag. It would then come after the bibliography.