How to include semicolon as part of text and not citation separator?

[khalid-hussain]

I want to use a semicolon as part of a citation text and not to separate between citations. How do I do this?

This is what I have so far:

---
csl: https://www.zotero.org/styles/chicago-fullnote-bibliography
title: Test Document
references:
    - author:
        - literal: Al-Ḥākim, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh
      id: mustadrakhakim
      issued: 2014
      number-of-volumes: 9
      publisher: Dār al-Taʾṣīl
      publisher-place: Beirut
      title: "[Al-Mustadrak ʿalá al-Ṣaḥīḥayn]{.nocase}"
      type: book
---

This is citation with a semicolon in the text but not for separating
citations.[@mustadrakhakim, vol. 1, p. 460, no. 461. Al-Haythamī said in
*al-Zawāʾid*, “It was narrated by Abū Yaʿlá and al-Bazzār; its narrators are
those of the *Ṣaḥīḥ*.”]

This is citation without a semicolon in the text.[@mustadrakhakim, vol. 1, p.
460, no. 461. Al-Haythamī said in *al-Zawāʾid*, “It was narrated by Abū Yaʿlá
and al-Bazzār its narrators are those of the *Ṣaḥīḥ*.”]

This is the output:

Output was compiled using Pandoc v3.7.0.2:

pandoc -t html5 --citeproc -o test.html -s test.md

The first instance breaks and the text floods into the main text. I've tried escaping it using \; but it didn't work.

How can I include a semicolon in the citation text?

[khalid-hussain]

I'm sorry. I had some other programs in the pipeline before reaching the final output. Escaping does indeed work.