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.

Francis Gulota

Assign a CrossRef digital object identifier (DOI) to your blog via The Winnower and archive your work FOREVER using CLOCKSS. Scholarly publishing tools for individual publishers (bloggers).
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Multi author blogs</li>
<li>Updates The Winnower when you click update in WordPress</li>
<li>Retrieve DOI’s of your posts from The Winnower and display them for citation on your paper.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Instructions</h4>
<ol>
<li>On new or existing posts find “The Winnower Post Settings”</li>
<li>Find “Cross-Post to The Winnower” and choose “Yes”</li>
<li>Chose at least one Topic for the post</li>
<li>Click “Publish”</li>
</ol>
Your post will now be posted to the winnower!
<h4>Getting your DOI</h4>
Currently only administrators may request a DOI.
<ol>
<li>Once your post has been published, find “You can request a DOI here.” in “The Winnower Post Settings” click it and you will end up on the post’s page at thewinnower.com. (Eg. <code>https://thewinnower.com/posts/what-are-winnower-authors-doing</code>)</li>
<li>On your post’s page click “Revise this Paper”</li>
<li>Find the button “Archive” – Note: Once you archive your post it can no longer be updated.</li>
<li>You now have a DOI!</li>
<li>Go back to your post edit page in your blog and find the “Retrieve DOI” button and click it.</li>
<li>Now update your paper to save the DOI.</li>
</ol>
The DOI will now display for citation at the bottom of you post!

The Winnower Publisher

The Plugin is dependent on Piklist plugin. That is not exactly bad although standalone is expected. This plugin essentially publishes the whole post on their domain via API and add Creative Commons License without warning on WordPress side. Retrieving DOI needs separate paid membership on their website. These may not be known or understandable to a new WordPress user. 
Paid membership needed is not mentioned in description. Readme and on WordPress post page disclaimer is requested to add as soon as possible.



Paid membership needed

Assign a CrossRef digital object identifier (DOI) to your blog via The Winnower and archive your work FOREVER using CLOCKSS.

Borges Bibliography Builder vs The Winnower Publisher