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Cite This Article · WordPress author box and article citations

Make your published work easier to cite.

Cite This Article adds clear authorship, ready-to-use article citations, citation exports, and citation-aware metadata to WordPress posts so readers can identify, cite, and save your work more reliably.

The problem

Your article can be authoritative and still be awkward to cite.

A reader who wants to cite a WordPress article may have to reconstruct its authors, publication title, date, and URL by hand. Cite This Article uses the article’s resolved authors and publication metadata to present a consistent citation that readers can copy or export.

In action

Cite This Article connects WordPress authorship to the article citation.

Cite This Article resolves manual authors, supported author integrations, or the standard WordPress post author. The same resolved author collection drives both the author-box presentation and the article citation, while visual bios, names, and images remain separately customizable.

Features

The free plugin handles authorship, citations, exports, and citation metadata.

Resolve multiple and guest authors

Cite This Article supports multiple authors natively. Authors can come from manual entries, the standard WordPress author, or a supported integration such as Co-Authors Plus. Manual authors can also represent guest contributors without WordPress accounts.

Let readers copy or export the article

The reader-facing citation panel generates a citation for the current article, includes every resolved author, supports one-click copying, and exports the reference as BibTeX, RIS, or CSL-JSON. Cite This Article can also output citation-aware page metadata so reference managers can recognize the article more reliably.

Control placement and content types with Pro

Cite This Article Pro extends the free author and citation system to custom post types and adds per-content-type profiles, advanced placement and targeting, and display or exclusion rules for posts, authors, categories, and taxonomies.

How it works

Turn a published WordPress article into a source readers can cite.

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Resolve authors

Cite This Article uses manual authors, supported integrations, or the standard WordPress post author to identify the article authors.

2

Show authorship

Cite This Article renders the resolved authors in a combined author box or individual author cards with available bios and images.

3

Generate the citation

The citation panel turns the article metadata and resolved authors into a ready-to-use article citation.

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Copy or export

Readers can copy the article citation or export the reference as BibTeX, RIS, or CSL-JSON.

Capabilities

Core authorship and citation features are free. Pro controls where they appear.

Multiple authorsnative multi-author resolution and citation formatting — Free
Guest authorsmanual guest contributors without WordPress accounts — Free
WordPress authorsstandard WordPress author profiles and bios — Free
Co-Authors Plusautomatic authors and guest-author resolution — Free
Citation exportsBibTeX, RIS, and CSL-JSON — Free
Citation metadatacitation-aware page metadata for reference managers — Free
Custom post typesauthor boxes and citations beyond standard posts — Pro
Placement and targetingcontent-position, selector, hook, and visibility rules — Pro
Where it fits in CiteKit

Reference Manager for WordPress helps publishers manage and cite the sources behind an article. Cite This Article completes the publishing loop by making the finished article easier for the next reader or writer to identify, cite, and save.

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Reference Manager for WordPress

Manage and publish the references behind the same WordPress article.

Make your published work easier to cite and save.

The free WordPress plugin includes author boxes, multiple and guest authors, article citations, reference-manager exports, and citation metadata.

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