Numbering and referring sections in bookdown

Question

I use bookdown for writing a report in Word, and I cannot find a way to number the sections of my report (or to refer to them). Here is a minimal example:

---
output:
  bookdown::word_document2
---

## Section 1

## Section 2

As far as I can see, the solutions refer to HTML documents only as explained here.

Answer 1

You can change the style in Word and then use the resulting document as your reference_docx.