--reference-section-title does not work with --to=jats+element_citations

[castedo]

REPO STEPS:

With input-with-heading.md

pandoc -t jats+element_citations --citeproc -s --metadata reference-section-title=References input-with-heading.md

GOT:

...
<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.2" article-type="other">
...
<back>
<ref-list>
  <ref id="ref-degroot_probability">
    <element-citation>
      <person-group person-group-type="author">
        <string-name>DeGroot</string-name>
      </person-group>
      <article-title>Probability</article-title>
      <year iso-8601-date="2002">2002</year>
    </element-citation>
  </ref>
</ref-list>
</back>
</article>

EXPECTED:

...
<ref-list>
  <title>References</title>
  <ref id="ref-degroot_probability">
...

...
which is the output when -t jats is the output type rather than -t jats+element_citations.

Pandoc version

$ pandoc --version
pandoc 3.1.6.2-nightly-2023-08-24
...

[castedo]

@jgm I currently have a gross work around to this issue:

https://gitlab.com/castedo/basecast/-/blob/690ed5bf5ab417cf229a06512eeea360b77fdc20/basecast/out.py#L28

 if not re.search(b"<ref-list>\s*<title ", xml):
    xml = xml.replace(b"<ref-list>", b"<ref-list>\n  <title>References</title>")

in a tool that I am planning to start evangelizing more broadly soon:

https://try.perm.pub/basecast/

The conversion of source files into the baseprint [1] output is almost entirely handled by pandoc, except for the above gross work around.

I'm not 100% sure that this tool should output element_citations. But I do this because pandoc can not read mixed_citations.

At least in the medium-term, if this issue is fixed then conversion of source files into a baseprint [1] can be handled more elegantly with just pandoc.

Not a big deal, but if it's easy to fix, I thought you might want to be aware.

[1] https://baseprints.singlesource.pub/