Yeah, bibliography works with org-mode. You can also do cross references in org-mode, which last I checked were a showstopper for me with Markdown. I've tried

Yeah, bibliography works with org-mode. You can also do cross references in org-mode, which last I checked were a showstopper for me with Markdown. I've tried doing academic writing in both org-mode and markdown. Org-mode ended up being the only one that did everything I needed.