About CiteKit
A toolkit for managing sources, references, and citations across online publishing
CiteKit is a web-native reference manager and citation toolkit for online publishers. It supports publishing workflows by helping publishers manage the sources behind their work, retain source information as reusable structured references, and make published work easier to cite. CiteKit includes two complementary products: CiteKit Reference Manager and CiteKit Cite This Article – Author Box Citation for WordPress.
CiteKit is built around a simple idea: the source information behind a publication should not disappear into a citation, hyperlink, or one-off bibliography. It should remain available as a structured reference that can be stored, organized, formatted, published, checked, maintained, and reused.
CiteKit Reference Manager is built around five core tools: a Citation Generator to turn source metadata such as URLs, DOIs, ISBNs, PubMed IDs, and YouTube links into references; a Reference Library to store reusable references and organize them into named reference sets; a Bibliography Generator to format references into more than 10,000 citation styles including APA and MLA; a Citation Schema Generator to produce machine-readable JSON-LD markup for search engines and AI web crawlers; and a Citation Link Checker to audit link health and surface broken or redirected references.
Together, these tools let online publishers manage the sources behind their content, turn them into reusable references, and generate citations, bibliographies, source lists, and citation structured data. CiteKit Reference Manager for WordPress extends this publication layer with footnotes, tooltips, and glossaries.
CiteKit Cite This Article works on the other side of publication, publishing author information and a ready article citation for the article itself. It builds those citations from native WordPress authors and multi-author setups.
At the center of the toolkit is the relationship between a source and its reference: the source is the original material; the reference is the structured record that represents it; and CiteKit manages that reference across the reference lifecycle so it can remain available across publishing workflows.
Both sides of a citation
CiteKit Reference Manager addresses the sources behind a publication. CiteKit Cite This Article addresses the publication when it becomes a source for someone else.
CiteKit Reference Manager
Manages what you cite
Collects source information, keeps it as structured references, and turns those references into citations, bibliographies, source lists, and citation structured data.
Web app and WordPress plugin. The WordPress edition adds footnotes, tooltips, and glossaries.
CiteKit Cite This Article
Helps others cite your work
Publishes author information and a ready article citation, so readers can identify and cite the article itself.
WordPress plugin, working with native WordPress authors and multi-author setups.
Where CiteKit is going
Toward structured, reusable reference management as a standard part of online publishing.
Online publishing should make it easier to see where information came from, return to the evidence behind a claim, and keep that source information useful long after an article is published.
CiteKit is being built for a web where publishers can preserve the research behind their work instead of losing it inside individual pages, links, or one-off bibliographies — and where readers can more easily understand and follow the sources that support what they read.
The goal is simple: make well-sourced publishing easier to create, easier to maintain, and easier to trust.