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Easily add citations and a bibliography in your WordPress website: paste a DOI, PubMed ID, ISBN, or arXiv ID and get a clean in-text citation and automatically generate a bibliography in APA, MLA, Chicago, IEEE, Vancouver, and other citation styles.<\/p>\n\n<p>Perfect for academic blogs, university websites, research group websites, online journals, and personal publication pages.<\/p>\n\n<p>A modern, actively maintained citation tool, it works as an up-to-date citation and BibTeX plugin for WordPress. It runs in both the block editor (Gutenberg) and the Classic Editor, and it does not lock your content: deactivate the plugin and your in-text citations stay readable as plain text. If you have been looking for an easy way to cite research papers and sources in WordPress, or to turn a DOI into a citation and bibliography, this is the plugin for it.<\/p>\n\n<p>Full documentation and a step-by-step guide on how to use the plugin: <a href=\"https:\/\/thelatexlab.com\/academic-citations-bibliography-wordpress-plugin\/\">TheLaTeXLab - Citations &amp; Bibliography documentation and how-to guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Insert citations from identifiers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thelatexlab.com\/doi-to-bibtex\/\">DOI to BibTeX<\/a>: paste a DOI, get the verified record from CrossRef.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thelatexlab.com\/pubmed-to-bibtex\/\">PubMed to BibTeX<\/a>: paste a PubMed ID (PMID) or PMC ID.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thelatexlab.com\/isbn-to-bibtex\/\">ISBN to BibTeX<\/a>: paste an ISBN-10 or ISBN-13.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thelatexlab.com\/arxiv-to-bibtex\/\">arXiv to BibTeX<\/a>: paste an arXiv ID.<\/li>\n<li>Paste a URL from doi.org, arxiv.org, PubMed, or a publisher page and the plugin extracts and verifies the identifier. 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Deactivate the plugin and in-text citations stay readable.<\/li>\n<li>Resolved metadata is cached for 30 days.<\/li>\n<li>Compatible with PHP 7.4+ and WordPress 6.0+.<\/li>\n<li>Built and designed for researchers who need fast, accurate academic citations in WordPress.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>TheLaTeXLab - Professional Word to LaTeX &amp; PDF to LaTeX Conversion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>This plugin is built by <a href=\"https:\/\/thelatexlab.com\/\">TheLaTeXLab<\/a>, a professional LaTeX typesetting service for researchers, PhD students, and academics. 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The bundled citation style (CSL) files come from the official Citation Style Language styles project (CC-BY-SA); the per-style author attribution is retained inside each file. One file (Chicago) has a single compatibility edit to its page-range-format value so it works with the bundled formatter.<\/p>\n\n<!--section=installation-->\n<ol>\n<li>Install and activate the plugin.<\/li>\n<li>Open Settings to pick a default citation style.<\/li>\n<li>In the editor, use the Insert Citation block (block editor) or toolbar button (Classic Editor), paste a DOI \/ PubMed ID \/ ISBN \/ arXiv ID, and insert.<\/li>\n<li>Publish. The bibliography renders at the bottom of the post, or wherever you place the bibliography block.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<p>For bibliography formatting, the plugin uses citeproc-php. Builds shipped to WordPress.org include it; if you install from source, run \"composer install\" in the plugin folder.<\/p>\n\n<!--section=faq-->\n<dl>\n<dt id=\"do%20i%20need%20an%20account%3F\"><h3>Do I need an account?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>No. This plugin needs no account and no login of any kind. Paste an identifier and go.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"does%20it%20work%20without%20bibtex%20upload%3F\"><h3>Does it work without BibTeX upload?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Yes. It resolves directly from identifiers (DOI, PubMed, ISBN, arXiv), so you do not need a BibTeX file to start. BibTeX and RIS upload are also supported for importing an existing library.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"what%20happens%20to%20my%20citations%20if%20i%20deactivate%20the%20plugin%3F\"><h3>What happens to my citations if I deactivate the plugin?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>In-text citations remain in your content as readable text, so posts do not break. 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