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CiteKit – Citations Manager makes it easy to add professional in-text citations to your WordPress content using simple [cite] shortcodes. Automatically generate a bibliography at the end of your post with [bibliography], styled in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other major formats.
Use the built-in Citation Library to: 
+ Track every citation used across posts 
+ Edit citation details (author, title, year, URL)
Perfect for bloggers, educators, journalists, and researchers who need clean, consistent citation formatting.
<h3>Features</h3>
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Inline [cite] Shortcode with Auto-ID 
Insert citations directly into post content using [cite]. Unique citation IDs are automatically generated, or set manually with [cite id=”my-custom-id”].
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Post-Level Citation Editor (Citebox) 
View and edit all citations associated with a post from a dedicated metabox. Modify author, title, year, or URL without leaving the editor screen.
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Centralized Citation Library Dashboard 
Manage all citations across your entire site in one place. Search, filter, and update entries inline to ensure consistency sitewide.
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Auto-Generated Bibliography 
Use the [bibliography] shortcode to automatically output a formatted bibliography for the current post. Entries are ordered and backlink to their corresponding in-text references.
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Manual Bibliography Composition 
Create a standalone bibliography using [bibliography title=”References”] Source 1 ; Source 2 ; Source 3 [/bibliography] — ideal for static lists or non-[cite] workflows.
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Multiple Citation Style Support 
Output citations in APA, MLA, Chicago (Author-Date and Notes), Harvard, or IEEE styles using [bibliography style=”apa|mla|chicago-ad|chicago-nb|harvard|ieee”].
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Tooltip-Style Inline Notes 
Add lightweight footnotes or definitions using [tooltip]…[/tooltip] shortcodes. Renders as clean tooltips with no visual clutter or numbering.
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<h3>CiteKit Shortcodes</h3>
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<li>[cite] — Inline citation with auto-generated ID</li>
<li>[cite id=”user-defined-id”] — Inline citation with user-defined ID</li>
<li>[bibliography title=”Works Cited” style=”mla”] — Formatted reference list </li>
<li>[bibliography] Smith, 2026; John Jacobs, The Red Roof, 2021; Mary Martha, Happy Homes, https://happyhomes.com [/bibliography] – Manually listed entries</li>
<li>[tooltip]…[/tooltip] — Define tooltip annotations</li>
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CiteKit – Citation and Reference Manager

Add in-text citations, tooltips, and auto-generated bibliography to your WordPress posts in APA, MLA, Chicago and more.

knowledgeblog

d_swan

sjcockell

philliplord

Interprets the [cite] shortcode to produce citations from the 
appropriate sources, also produces a formatted bibliography at the foot of the 
post, with appropriate links to articles.
This plugin now uses multiple resources to retrieve metadata about the 
references in question, including CrossRef, DataCite, arXiv, PubMed and 
arbitrary URLs.
Additional documentation is available at 
<a href="http://process.knowledgeblog.org/category/kcite" rel="nofollow ugc">Process</a>.
Syntax
DOI Example – [cite source=’doi’]10.1021/jf904082b[/cite]
PMID example – [cite source=’pubmed’]17237047[/cite]
Whichever ‘source’ is identified as the default (see Installation), will work 
without the source attribute being set in the shortcode. so:
[cite]10.1021/jf904082b[/cite]
Will be interpreted correctly as long as DOI is set as the default metadata 
source.
Kcite now supports DOIs from both <a href="http://www.crossref.org" rel="nofollow ugc">CrossRef</a> and 
<a href="http://www.datacite.org" rel="nofollow ugc">DataCite</a>. Identifiers from 
<a href="http://www.pubmed.org" rel="nofollow ugc">PubMed</a> or <a href="http://www.arxiv.org" rel="nofollow ugc">arXiv</a> are directly 
supported. URLs are supported via 
<a href="http://greycite.knowledgeblog.org" rel="nofollow ugc">Greycite</a>.
From Kcite 1.4, Citeproc-js 
(https://bitbucket.org/fbennett/citeproc-js/wiki/Home) is used to render the 
bibliography on the browser; the main visible change it that Author-Year 
citation is used. There is now experimental support for reader switching. This 
must be enabled in the settings page as it is off by default.
Kcite is developed at http://code.google.com/p/knowledgeblog/ in Mercurial. To 
contact the authors, please email knowledgeblog@googlegroups.com.
<h3>Copyright</h3>
This plugin is copyright Phillip Lord, Simon Cockell and Newcastle University 
and is licensed under GPLv3. Citeproc-js which is included is used under the 
AGPLv3.

KCite

A tool for producing citations and bibliographies in Wordpress posts. Developed for the Knowledgeblog project (http://knowledgeblog.org).

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