~/.pandoc/default.csl does not get used as mentioned in pandoc user guide?

[cinaeco]

On OS X 10.10.4
pandoc: stable 1.15.0.6
pandoc-citeproc: stable 0.7.2

I was reading through the pandoc markdown docs to set up, and found that the documentation was misleading about default citation styles.

~/.pandoc/default.csl is never picked up. pandoc-citeproc will only accept ~/.csl/chicago-author-date.csl as a default file, according to the manpage and the code.

Should the documentation on the page be changed? (a pandoc issue?)
Or should pandoc-citeproc be updated to look for ~/.pandoc/default.csl before chicago-author-date? (a pandoc-citeproc issue?)

I think it would be better to get ~/.pandoc/default.csl recognised (defaults other than chicago-author-date make a lot of sense), but I'm not sure.

Of course, maybe I'm doing something wrong - does ~/.pandoc/default.csl work for anyone else?