diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 430fa3a8..8450fb21 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ Authors@R: c(
   person("Mitchell", "O'Hara-Wild", role=c("aut", "cre"), email = "mail@mitchelloharawild.com", comment=c(ORCID = "0000-0001-6729-7695")),
   person("Rob", "Hyndman", email="Rob.Hyndman@monash.edu", role=c("aut"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-2140-5352")),
   person("Yihui", "Xie", role = c("ctb"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-0645-5666")),
-  person("Albert", "Krewinkel", role = c("cph"), comment = c("Multiple bibliographies lua filter")))
+  person("Albert", "Krewinkel", role = c("cph"), comment = c("Multiple bibliographies lua filter")),
+  person("JooYoung", "Seo", role="ctb", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-4064-6012")))
 Description: Provides templates and functions to simplify the production and maintenance of curriculum vitae.
 Imports:
     bookdown,
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index b40d3b01..1becb441 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 * `bibliography_entries()` are now handled using a pandoc via a lua filter. This
   means that typical approaches for specifying CSL and other citeproc paramaters
   will work as expected.
+* The `citation_package` and `latex_engine` options are now changeable by users 
+  for all output formats.
   
 ## Breaking changes
 * All arguments of `bibliography_entries()` except for the bibliography `file`
diff --git a/R/formats.R b/R/formats.R
index 79962dec..f08ad06f 100644
--- a/R/formats.R
+++ b/R/formats.R
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 #' produce curriculum vitae
 #'
 #' @param \dots Arguments passed to \code{\link[vitae]{cv_document}}.
+#' @inheritParams rmarkdown::pdf_document
 #'
 #' @return An R Markdown output format object.
 #'
@@ -35,13 +36,13 @@ twentyseconds <- function(...) {
 
 #' @rdname cv_formats
 #' @export
-awesomecv <- function(...) {
+awesomecv <- function(..., latex_engine = "xelatex") {
   template <- system.file("rmarkdown", "templates", "awesomecv",
     "resources", "awesome-cv.tex",
     package = "vitae"
   )
   copy_supporting_files("awesomecv")
-  cv_document(..., template = template, latex_engine = "xelatex")
+  cv_document(..., template = template, latex_engine = latex_engine)
 }
 
 #' @rdname cv_formats
@@ -49,7 +50,8 @@ awesomecv <- function(...) {
 #' @param theme The theme used for the template.
 #'
 #' @export
-moderncv <- function(..., theme = c("casual", "classic", "oldstyle", "banking", "fancy")) {
+moderncv <- function(..., theme = c("casual", "classic", "oldstyle", "banking", "fancy"),
+                     latex_engine = "pdflatex") {
   theme <- match.arg(theme)
   template <- system.file("rmarkdown", "templates", "moderncv",
     "resources", "moderncv.tex",
@@ -57,7 +59,7 @@ moderncv <- function(..., theme = c("casual", "classic", "oldstyle", "banking",
   )
   copy_supporting_files("moderncv")
   cv_document(..., pandoc_vars = list(theme = theme),
-              template = template, latex_engine = "pdflatex")
+              template = template, latex_engine = latex_engine)
 }
 
 #' @rdname cv_formats
diff --git a/man/cv_formats.Rd b/man/cv_formats.Rd
index 460bfdfb..19dfeeb9 100644
--- a/man/cv_formats.Rd
+++ b/man/cv_formats.Rd
@@ -13,15 +13,22 @@ hyndman(...)
 
 twentyseconds(...)
 
-awesomecv(...)
+awesomecv(..., latex_engine = "xelatex")
 
-moderncv(..., theme = c("casual", "classic", "oldstyle", "banking", "fancy"))
+moderncv(
+  ...,
+  theme = c("casual", "classic", "oldstyle", "banking", "fancy"),
+  latex_engine = "pdflatex"
+)
 
 latexcv(..., theme = c("classic", "modern", "rows", "sidebar", "two_column"))
 }
 \arguments{
 \item{\dots}{Arguments passed to \code{\link[vitae]{cv_document}}.}
 
+\item{latex_engine}{LaTeX engine for producing PDF output. Options are
+"pdflatex", "lualatex", and "xelatex".}
+
 \item{theme}{The theme used for the template.}
 }
 \value{
diff --git a/man/vitae-package.Rd b/man/vitae-package.Rd
index 0c09fc4e..53e21a13 100644
--- a/man/vitae-package.Rd
+++ b/man/vitae-package.Rd
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ Other contributors:
 \itemize{
   \item Yihui Xie (\href{https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0645-5666}{ORCID}) [contributor]
   \item Albert Krewinkel (Multiple bibliographies lua filter) [copyright holder]
+  \item JooYoung Seo (\href{https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4064-6012}{ORCID}) [contributor]
 }
 
 }