Dan Knauss

Named for Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), the Argentine writer and librarian known for stories about infinite libraries, imaginary books, and labyrinths of knowledge, Borges Bibliography Builder brings order to scholarly references in WordPress.
The Borges Bibliography Builder transforms pasted DOI(s), PubMed/PMID records, BibTeX entries, and citations into a semantically rich, auto-sorted reference list.
One-click import. Paste a DOI and CrossRef resolves the metadata instantly. Paste a PubMed/PMID identifier and Borges resolves it through an authenticated WordPress REST proxy to NCBI/PMC citation metadata. Paste BibTeX or formatted citations for books, articles, chapters, webpages, reviews, and theses.
Nine citation styles. Choose from Chicago Notes-Bibliography, Chicago Author-Date, APA 7, MLA 9, Harvard, Vancouver, IEEE, OSCOLA, and ABNT (Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas / NBR 6023:2018) — all with automatic sorting per style rules.
Portable. Static HTML output survives plugin deactivation. No shortcodes. No database tables.
Reference-manager friendly. Export and reuse your bibliography in common research workflows. Borges supports CSL-JSON, BibTeX, BibLaTeX, RIS, DOI links, JSON-LD, and optional COinS metadata for compatibility with tools such as Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote, JabRef, BibDesk, and other citation managers.
Try it first. Launch a disposable demo in <a href="https://playground.wordpress.net/?blueprint-url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dknauss/borges-bibliography-builder/main/playground/blueprint.json" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Playground</a> before installing it on your site.
Translation-ready. Plugin interface strings use the <code>borges-bibliography-builder</code> text domain, and official WordPress.org language packs are generated as community translations are approved on translate.wordpress.org.
<h3>Known Limitations</h3>
OSCOLA grouped bibliography — OSCOLA convention requires the bibliography to be divided into source-type groups (cases, legislation, books, articles, online sources). Borges currently renders a single alphabetized list regardless of style. A dismissible notice in the editor explains this when OSCOLA is selected. Grouped-bibliography support is planned for a future release.
<h3>Development</h3>
Full developer documentation, source code, issue tracker, and contribution guidelines are on GitHub:
<a href="https://github.com/dknauss/borges-bibliography-builder" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/dknauss/borges-bibliography-builder</a>
Bug reports, feature requests, and pull requests are welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md in the repository for development setup, coding standards, and the PR process.
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin connects to fixed scholarly metadata services only when you explicitly add an identifier in the block editor — no citation data is sent automatically or in the background. No account or API key is required for the supported DOI or PMID lookups.
DOI metadata
DOI input connects to the CrossRef REST API (https://api.crossref.org/) to resolve citation metadata.
<ul>
<li>CrossRef service: https://www.crossref.org/</li>
<li>CrossRef REST API documentation: https://api.crossref.org/swagger-ui/index.html</li>
<li>CrossRef privacy policy: https://www.crossref.org/privacy/</li>
<li>CrossRef terms of service: https://www.crossref.org/terms/</li>
</ul>
PubMed/PMID metadata
PubMed/PMID input connects through the plugin’s authenticated WordPress REST proxy to the NCBI/PMC Literature Citation Exporter CSL endpoint. The proxy uses a fixed upstream host and validates the PMID before making the outbound request.
<ul>
<li>NCBI APIs: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/home/develop/api/</li>
<li>NCBI/PMC Literature Citation Exporter: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/api/ctxp/</li>
<li>NLM Web Policies: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/web_policies.html</li>
</ul>

Borges Bibliography Builder

Paste DOI, PubMed/PMID, BibTeX, or citations — get a formatted, auto-sorted bibliography in nine academic styles.

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With this plugin you can automatically generate a new Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for any new post you publish and automatically register it on DataCite.
A new DOI is generated when a new post is published (drafts are ignored). All information needed to generate the DOI is automatically retrieved from the post being published.
As of the current version, the new DOI submitted to DataCite contains the following information:
<ul>
<li>“doi”: generated automatically based on the prefix and suffix declared in the settings of this plugin, plus the publication year, the issue number and the number of the post (e.g. 10.5438/0012/2021-1-2)</li>
<li>“url”: the permalink to the post</li>
<li>“creators”: the list of the authors. If the plugin <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/co-authors-plus/" rel="ugc">coauthors plus</a> is installed, the complete list of authors is retrieved.</li>
<li>“titles”: the title of the post.</li>
<li>“publicationYear”: the year in which the post has been published.</li>
<li>“publisher”: the name of the journal (website), retrieved from the general settings of WordPress (Settings -> General).</li>
<li>“descriptions”: a one line sentence with the name of the journal, the issue and year (e.g. “CoolJournal, 3 (2021)”). The issue number is calculated automatically based on the periodicity of the journal, declared in the settings of this plugin, and the month of publication.</li>
<li>“types”: as of now this plugin is aimed at generating DOIs for academic papers in journals, so the types are as follows: <code>{ "ris": "RPRT", "bibtex": "article", "citeproc": "article-journal", "schemaOrg": "ScholarlyArticle", "resourceTypeGeneral": "Text" }</code></li>
</ul>
Once the DOI has been created and registered on DataCite, it is saved as a custom field (<code>doi</code>) of the post. To check that the new DOI has been saved, once the article has finished saving the new details, reload the page and check that the doi is listed in the custom fields section of the post.
<h3>Configuration</h3>
Before using this plugin it is mandatory to properly define the settings.
The settings page can be accessed from the plugin list page and from the settings menu (“Settings -> DOI creator settings”).
Mandatory information to be specified in the settings are:
<ul>
<li>DOI base: the prefix and suffix of the DOI (e.g. 10.5438/0012)</li>
<li>Periodicity: number of months of each issue. In other words, how often a new issue of the journal is published.</li>
<li>DataCite credentials: your username and password used to access DataCite. These are stored in your database and are never shared with anyone other than DataCite.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Testing</h3>
Before generating and publishing new DOIs, we strongly recommend to run some tests to check that everything runs as expected.
To generate and register DOIs in test mode, you can select the “Use test environment” option under this plugin settings.
All DOIs generated and published while in test mode will be visible only on <a href="https://doi.test.datacite.org" rel="nofollow ugc">DataCite Fabrica Test, https://doi.test.datacite.org</a>.
Please note that if your test credentials are different from your production credentials, you must enter them in the settings of this plugin.
<h3>Supporting the project</h3>
If you find this plugin useful and you would like to contribute to its development, please consider <a href="https://paypal.me/Gherardo" title="Donate!" rel="nofollow ugc">donating</a>.
<h3>Feature requests and support</h3>
If you would like to see new features added to the plugin, send us your requests through the support forum of the plugin on WordPress.org, and please consider <a href="https://paypal.me/Gherardo" title="Donate!" rel="nofollow ugc">donating</a> to increase the time we can spend coding the plugin.
The plugin is provided as-is without any support. If you really need help, please consider <a href="https://paypal.me/Gherardo" title="Donate!" rel="nofollow ugc">donating</a> and making a support request. We’ll do our best to help those who help us.

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