Citation at start of footnote generates a secondary footnote: intended behaviour?

[lyndondrake]

Hi,

If I have a footnote that is like this:

[^7]: @Eruera1997. Eruera's text switches freely between English and
    Māori, and in this instance I have translated the Māori part of the
    sentence.

Pandoc generates a secondary footnote, which looks like this in Word:

It is missing both the citation for @Eruera1997 and creates the non-intended footnote '1' inside the intended footnote '14'. A similar effect happens in LaTeX, so I don't think it's an artefact of the Word writer. If I add text prior to @Eruera1997 I get an inline citation, which is what I was expecting, so it seems to be specific to the first element of a footnote being a citation.

Is this intended behaviour, and if so is there anything I can do to force an inline citation?

[jgm]

What pandoc version?
Assuming you've tried on the latest version, can you give us everything needed to reproduce the issue?