Title: CitePress – Automatic Citation Generator
Author: nusagates
Published: <strong>May 28, 2025</strong>
Last modified: May 28, 2025

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# CitePress – Automatic Citation Generator

 By [nusagates](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nusagates/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/citepress-automatic-citation-generator.1.7.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/citepress-automatic-citation-generator/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/citepress-automatic-citation-generator/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/citepress-automatic-citation-generator/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/citepress-automatic-citation-generator/#developers)

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## Description

**CitePress** lets you generate a properly formatted bibliography (reference) for
any post using simple shortcodes.

Built for academic blogs, research documentation, online journals, and educational
websites.

**Features:**

 * Citation styles supported: APA, MLA, Chicago, IEEE, Harvard, Vancouver, ASA, 
   ACS, ACM
 * Customizable citation label and access date format
 * Outputs a styled, collapsible citation box
 * Uses clean shortcodes: `[citepress style="apa"]`
 * No custom tables, no frontend scripts, lightweight

## Screenshots

[⌊Admin settings panel with options⌉⌊Admin settings panel with options⌉[

Admin settings panel with options

[⌊Frontend citation box output⌉⌊Frontend citation box output⌉[

Frontend citation box output

## Installation

 1. Upload the `citepress` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin via the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Use the shortcode `[citepress style="apa"]` in any post or page
 4. Customize via **Settings  CitePress**

## FAQ

### How do I change the label or date format?

Go to **Settings  CitePress** and modify the label for the citation box or the access
date display.

### Can I use this with custom post types?

Currently the shortcode works best inside standard posts. Support for CPTs can be
added manually or through future updates.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“CitePress – Automatic Citation Generator” is open source software. The following
people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ nusagates ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nusagates/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/citepress-automatic-citation-generator/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/citepress-automatic-citation-generator/),
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## Changelog

#### 1.6

 * Customizable citation box label
 * Markup improved for frontend box styling

#### 1.5

 * Added settings for access label and date format

#### 1.0

 * Initial release with multiple citation formats and shortcode output

## Meta

 *  Version **1.7**
 *  Last updated **1 year ago**
 *  Active installations **50+**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.8.5**
 *  PHP version ** 7.2 or higher **
 * Tags
 * [academic](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/academic/)[bibliography](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/bibliography/)
   [citation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/citation/)[reference](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/reference/)
   [shortcode](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/shortcode/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/citepress-automatic-citation-generator/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ nusagates ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nusagates/)

## Support

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