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Reference Manager for WordPress

Citations, footnotes, tooltips & bibliographies in WordPress

A broad demo of Reference Manager for WordPress: reusable references and citations, hover tooltips, numbered footnotes, eight bibliography styles, Chicago Notes-Bibliography, the Reference Library, link health, and publisher-focused controls.

Try the interactive examples: hover over underlined tooltip terms and numbered footnote markers to open their popups.

Style 01

A sourced article

A compact example showing a citation, tooltip, and commentary footnote inside ordinary WordPress content.

Research-style web article

Citation + tooltip + footnote

Urban heat is increasingly treated as both an infrastructure and public-health problem (Chen et al., 2026) rather than a purely environmental one.

Publishing systems also need source transparency so readers can inspect the evidence behind claims. 1

Shortcodes used
[cite id="chen-2026"] [tooltip tip="source transparency"]Readers can identify, inspect, and verify the evidence behind a claim.[/tooltip] [footnote]This is a commentary footnote rather than a bibliographic citation.[/footnote]

Style 02

Inline citations

Use custom human-readable IDs so the same saved reference can be reused across posts.

Organization source

Reusable reference ID

(World Health Organization, 2025)
Shortcode equivalent
[cite id="who-2025"]

Journal source

Reusable reference ID

(Chen et al., 2026)
Shortcode equivalent
[cite id="chen-2026"]

Style 03

Tooltip-style inline notes

Dashed, dotted, and symbol-marker tooltips add definitions and asides without breaking the reading flow.

Dashed underline

Default tooltip

FOSS
Shortcode equivalent
[tooltip tip="FOSS"]Free and Open Source Software[/tooltip]

Dotted underline

Alternative inline treatment

CSL
Shortcode equivalent
[tooltip style="dotted" tip="CSL"]Citation Style Language[/tooltip]

Asterisk marker

Superscript aside

*
Shortcode equivalent
[tooltip style="*"]A short editorial aside shown on hover.[/tooltip]

Dagger marker

Additional symbol style

†
Shortcode equivalent
[tooltip style="†"]Additional context for the reader.[/tooltip]

Style 04

Numbered footnotes

Footnotes are numbered in order of appearance, shown on hover, and collected into a list with back-links.

Commentary footnote

Marker + popup

2
Shortcode equivalent
[footnote]This note adds historical or editorial context without becoming a citation.[/footnote]

Second footnote

Automatic numbering continues

3
Shortcode equivalent
[footnote]A second note can contain links, commentary, or supporting explanation.[/footnote]

Footnotes list

Collected notes + back-links

3 Notes
  1. This is a commentary footnote rather than a bibliographic citation. ↩
  2. This note adds historical or editorial context without becoming a citation. ↩
  3. A second note can contain links, commentary, or supporting explanation. ↩
Shortcode equivalent
[footnotes title="Notes"]

Style 05

Bibliography block & shortcode

Generate a bibliography from the references used in the current post, with a custom style and heading.

Article bibliography

APA + custom heading

APA References
  1. Chen, M., Brooks, D., & Ahmed, L. (2026). Urban heat exposure and public health resilience. Journal of Urban Systems, 18(2), 114–129.
  2. World Health Organization. (2025). Climate and health: Global evidence report.
Shortcode equivalent
[bibliography style="apa" title="Article Sources"]

Style 06

Eight citation styles

APA, MLA, Chicago Author-Date, Chicago Notes-Bibliography, Harvard, IEEE, Vancouver, and AMA.

APA

Bibliography style

APA References
  1. Chen, M., Brooks, D., & Ahmed, L. (2026). Urban heat exposure and public health resilience. Journal of Urban Systems, 18(2), 114–129.
  2. World Health Organization. (2025). Climate and health: Global evidence report.
Shortcode equivalent
[bibliography style="apa" title="References"]

MLA

Bibliography style

MLA References
  1. Chen, Maya, Daniel Brooks, and Leila Ahmed. “Urban Heat Exposure and Public Health Resilience.” Journal of Urban Systems, vol. 18, no. 2, 2026, pp. 114–129.
  2. World Health Organization. Climate and Health: Global Evidence Report. 2025.
Shortcode equivalent
[bibliography style="mla" title="References"]

Chicago Author-Date

Bibliography style

Chicago Author-Date References
  1. Chen, Maya, Daniel Brooks, and Leila Ahmed. 2026. “Urban Heat Exposure and Public Health Resilience.” Journal of Urban Systems 18 (2): 114–29.
  2. World Health Organization. 2025. Climate and Health: Global Evidence Report.
Shortcode equivalent
[bibliography style="chicago-ad" title="References"]

Chicago Notes-Bibliography

Bibliography style

Chicago Notes-Bibliography References
  1. Chen, Maya, Daniel Brooks, and Leila Ahmed. “Urban Heat Exposure and Public Health Resilience.” Journal of Urban Systems 18, no. 2 (2026): 114–29.
  2. World Health Organization. Climate and Health: Global Evidence Report. 2025.
Shortcode equivalent
[bibliography style="chicago-nb" title="References"]

Harvard

Bibliography style

Harvard References
  1. Chen, M., Brooks, D. and Ahmed, L. (2026) ‘Urban heat exposure and public health resilience’, Journal of Urban Systems, 18(2), pp. 114–129.
  2. World Health Organization (2025) Climate and health: Global evidence report.
Shortcode equivalent
[bibliography style="harvard" title="References"]

IEEE

Bibliography style

IEEE References
  1. M. Chen, D. Brooks, and L. Ahmed, “Urban heat exposure and public health resilience,” Journal of Urban Systems, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 114–129, 2026.
  2. World Health Organization, Climate and Health: Global Evidence Report, 2025.
Shortcode equivalent
[bibliography style="ieee" title="References"]

Vancouver

Bibliography style

Vancouver References
  1. Chen M, Brooks D, Ahmed L. Urban heat exposure and public health resilience. J Urban Syst. 2026;18(2):114-129.
  2. World Health Organization. Climate and health: global evidence report. Geneva: WHO; 2025.
Shortcode equivalent
[bibliography style="vancouver" title="References"]

AMA

Bibliography style

AMA References
  1. Chen M, Brooks D, Ahmed L. Urban heat exposure and public health resilience. Journal of Urban Systems. 2026;18(2):114-129.
  2. World Health Organization. Climate and Health: Global Evidence Report. Published 2025.
Shortcode equivalent
[bibliography style="ama" title="References"]

Style 07

Chicago Notes-Bibliography

Citation notes and ordinary commentary footnotes share one numbered sequence while the bibliography remains a separate alphabetically ordered bibliography.

Interleaved notes

Citation note + commentary note

The first source appears as a complete Chicago note.1 A separate editorial aside follows in the same sequence.2

  1. Maya Chen, Daniel Brooks, and Leila Ahmed, “Urban Heat Exposure and Public Health Resilience,” Journal of Urban Systems 18, no. 2 (2026): 114–29.
  2. This is an ordinary commentary footnote rather than a source citation.
Shortcodes used
[cite id="chen-2026"] [footnote]This is an ordinary commentary footnote rather than a source citation.[/footnote]

Separate bibliography

Chicago NB bibliography

Chicago Notes-Bibliography References
  1. Chen, Maya, Daniel Brooks, and Leila Ahmed. “Urban Heat Exposure and Public Health Resilience.” Journal of Urban Systems 18, no. 2 (2026): 114–29.
  2. World Health Organization. Climate and Health: Global Evidence Report. 2025.
Shortcode equivalent
[bibliography style="chicago-nb" title="Bibliography"]

Style 08

Manual bibliography composition

For static bibliographies and non-[cite] workflows, bibliography entries can be supplied directly in the shortcode.

Static bibliography

No saved references required

2 Further Reading

  1. World Health Organization, Climate and Health, 2025

  2. Maya Chen, Urban Heat Exposure, 2026

Shortcode equivalent
[bibliography title="Further Reading"]World Health Organization, Climate and Health, 2025 ; Maya Chen, Urban Heat Exposure, 2026[/bibliography]

Style 09

Central Reference Library

References are reusable site-wide records. The library shows where each reference is used, its type, and link-health status.

Reference LibraryAll references · 4 shown
chen-2026Urban heat exposure and public health resilience
3 posts
Live
Journal
who-2025Climate and health: global evidence report
7 posts
Live
Report
policy-2024Urban resilience policy framework
2 posts
Broken
Web
lee-2023Heat inequality in coastal cities
1 post
Unchecked
Journal

Style 10

Link health monitoring

Saved source URLs can be checked and marked Live, Broken, or Unchecked.

Live

Source reachable

https://example.org/who-climate-health

Broken

Source needs attention

https://example.org/old-policy-report

Style 11

CiteBox — post-level citation editor

Reference metadata can be edited from the article editor without leaving the post.

chen-2026

AuthorMaya Chen; Daniel Brooks; Leila Ahmed
TitleUrban Heat Exposure and Public Health Resilience
Year2026
JournalJournal of Urban Systems
DOI10.1000/ck.2026.001

who-2025

AuthorWorld Health Organization
TitleClimate and Health: Global Evidence Report
Year2025
TypeReport
PublisherWorld Health Organization

Style 12

Post-level citation style

A post can override the site default, including switching into Chicago Notes-Bibliography mode.

Vancouver article

Site defaultAPA
This postVancouver
BibliographyReferences

Notes-Bibliography article

Site defaultAPA
This postChicago Notes-Bibliography
CitationsComplete numbered notes

Style 13

Premium publisher tools

The Premium layer adds publication-scale editing, custom styles, custom post types, metadata, and richer annotations.

Custom Citation Style Builder

Build custom in-text and bibliography formats with control over author order, punctuation, italics, and separators.

Global Reference Editing

Edit a reference once in the Reference Library and propagate the change everywhere that reference ID is used.

In-post reference search

Search the existing Reference Library and insert a saved reference from the article editor.

Custom post type support

Use CiteKit across posts, pages, and registered custom post types.

Citation Schema

Output Schema.org JSON-LD describing cited sources and citation relationships so compatible tools can understand the published references.

Rich footnotes & tooltips

Add formatting, links, lists, images, alt text, and captions to notes without writing custom markup.