diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e8513fc1..863dd4c3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. This change
 - bugfix: handling the edge case of string hiccup carefully
 - bugfix: handling `:kind/hidden` correctly in notebook generation
 - applying `:kindly/options` in all hiccup-based pathways
+- bugfix: using the appropriate Quarto target format in Markdown generation
 
 ## [2-beta15] - 2024-07-27
 - introducing code-and-value and horizontal layout - WIP (PR #127)
diff --git a/src/scicloj/clay/v2/page.clj b/src/scicloj/clay/v2/page.clj
index 824541be..7b40ee57 100644
--- a/src/scicloj/clay/v2/page.clj
+++ b/src/scicloj/clay/v2/page.clj
@@ -266,30 +266,33 @@
     (hiccup.page/html5 head body)))
 
 (defn md [{:as spec
-           :keys [items title favicon quarto]}]
-  (str
-   (->> (cond-> quarto
-                ;; Users may provide non-quarto specific configuration (see also html),
-                ;; if so this will be added to the quarto front-matter to make them behave the same way
-                title (assoc-in [:format :html :title] title)
-                favicon (update-in [:format :html :include-in-header :text]
-                                   str "<link rel = \"icon\" href = \"" favicon "\" />"))
-        yaml/generate-string
-        (format "\n---\n%s\n---\n"))
-   ;; " "
-   (hiccup/html
-    [:style (styles/main :table)]
-    [:style (styles/main :md-main)]
-    [:style (styles/main :main)])
-   (->> items
-        items->deps
-        (cons :md-default)
-        (include-libs spec [:js :css]))
-   (->> items
-        (map-indexed
-         (fn [i item]
-           (prepare/item->md item)))
-        (string/join "\n\n"))))
+           :keys [items title favicon quarto format]}]
+  (let [quarto-target (if (=  format [:quarto :revealjs])
+                        :revealjs
+                        :html)]
+    (str
+     "\n---\n"
+     (yaml/generate-string
+      (cond-> quarto
+        ;; Users may provide non-quarto specific configuration (see also html),
+        ;; if so this will be added to the quarto front-matter to make them behave the same way
+        title (assoc-in [:format :html :title] title)
+        favicon (update-in [:format quarto-target :include-in-header :text]
+                           str "<link rel = \"icon\" href = \"" favicon "\" />")))
+     "\n---\n"
+     (hiccup/html
+         [:style (styles/main :table)]
+       [:style (styles/main :md-main)]
+       [:style (styles/main :main)])
+     (->> items
+          items->deps
+          (cons :md-default)
+          (include-libs spec [:js :css]))
+     (->> items
+          (map-indexed
+           (fn [i item]
+             (prepare/item->md item)))
+          (string/join "\n\n")))))
 
 
 (defn hiccup [{:as spec