you might also checkout helm-bibtex. A recent note indicated "Support for pre- and postnotes for pandoc-citeproc citations."
I haven't tried it, so I am not sure how it works for org-mode. org-ref supports [[cite:somekey][pre-text::post-text]] syntax, without folding the link on itself so you can see it. I think your example would look like: blah blah blah [[cite:ref1][::, p.23]], also cite:ref2, for a contrary view see [[cite:ref3][:: pp148-152]] this exports out of the org-ref box to: blah blah blah \cite[][, p.23]{ref1}, also \cite{ref2}, for a contrary view see \cite[][ pp148-152]{ref3}. I don't use this style of citations, so I don't know if it is right. Alex Fenton writes: > Hello, > > I see that there were several extensive and fruitful discussions on this > list last year on citation syntax. There seemed to be a reasonable > degree of consensus that pandoc-style citation syntax was at the least a > good model. > > I'd like to know if there are any implementations out there of elisp to > parse pandoc citation syntax and turn it into latex \cites. My question > is not so much "when/if this will be in org mode" but rather whether > there's something I can drop in now (likely as a link type). > > I have a lot of longish citations with multiple references each with > their own pre- and post- ("'blah blah blah @ref1, p.23, also @ref2, for > a contrary view see @ref3 pp148-152") that end up as \cites. However my > home-brew link solution, stuffing the multiple pre- and posts- with > separator into the link description is unwieldy - difficult to write, > hard to read and easy to get wrong or breaking output. > > thanks > alex -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu