CiteKit – Footnotes, Tooltips, Citations, Bibliography & References Manager
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| 更新时间 | 2026年8月23日 23:43 |
| PHP版本: | 7.4 及以上 |
| WordPress版本: | 7.1 |
| 版权: | GPLv2 or later |
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Documentation & Support
CiteKit is a WordPress reference manager for online publishers who want to improve content credibility with transparent, structured sourcing.
Add citations, footnotes, tooltips, and bibliographies directly in WordPress, then manage the underlying references from one central library. CiteKit is built for publishing workflows where sources need to stay organized, reusable, and visible to readers — not just generated once and forgotten.
Create reusable references with custom IDs like [cite id="who-2024"], or let CiteKit assign them automatically. Reuse the same reference across multiple posts, manage its metadata centrally, see where it is used, and monitor source links for problems.
Publish references in APA, MLA, Chicago Author-Date, Chicago Notes-Bibliography, Harvard, IEEE, Vancouver, or AMA. Add in-text citations, numbered footnotes, and hover tooltips with shortcodes or block-editor toolbar controls, then generate a formatted bibliography with [bibliography] or the Bibliography by CiteKit block.
Version 4.0 adds Chicago Notes-Bibliography, Vancouver and AMA styles, post-level citation style controls, richer footnote support, and expanded reference fields — giving publishers a more complete system for managing and publishing credible, source-backed content
Free citation tools at CiteKit.com
- Citation generator
- Bibliography generator
- Reference library
- Citation link checker
- Citation schema generator
- Cite a GitHub repository in Harvard
- Cite a Reddit post in Vancouver
- Cite a trademark in APA
- Cite an SEC filing in APA
- Cite a website in MLA
- Cite a YouTube video in IEEE
- Cite a book in AMA
- Cite ChatGPT in APA
- Research and academic blogs
- Health, medical, and nutrition sites citing studies and clinical guidelines
- Legal, policy, and government-focused publishers
- Finance and business analysis
- Product reviews and comparison sites
- Independent publishers and journalists
- AI-assisted content teams that need real, verifiable sources
- Agencies managing citations across many client sites
安装:
Via WordPress Admin
- Go to Plugins → Add New
- Search for "CiteKit" or "citation manager"
- Click Install Now, then Activate
- Download the .zip from the WordPress Plugin Directory
- Go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin
- Upload the .zip and click Install Now, then Activate
- Extract the .zip and upload the citation-reference-manager folder to /wp-content/plugins/
- Activate from the Plugins screen in your WordPress dashboard
- Open any post or page in the block editor and click the CiteKit Citation button on the paragraph block toolbar to insert your first inline citation — fill in the ID, author, title, year, and URL in the block options panel
- To add a hover tooltip, click the CiteKit Tooltip button on the toolbar, choose a style (dashed, dotted, or symbol), then enter the term and definition
- To add a numbered footnote, click the CiteKit Footnote button on the toolbar and enter your footnote text — it will appear as a superscript marker and in the footnote list at the end of the post
- Click any existing citation, tooltip, or footnote badge in the editor to re-open its details for editing at any time
- The CiteBox metabox below the editor shows every citation in the current post — you can fill in or update reference details there too
- Add a Bibliography by CiteKit block or [bibliography] shortcode at the end of your post to automatically render a formatted, backlinked reference list
- Add a Footnotes by CiteKit block or [footnotes] shortcode to render the collected footnote list
- Visit CiteKit Library to see, audit, and manage all citations across your entire site
- Go to CiteKit Library → Settings to set your preferred default bibliography style and heading
常见问题:
Does CiteKit support Chicago Notes-Bibliography?
Yes. Choose "Chicago (Notes-Bibliography)" in a post's Citation Style panel and your [cite] citations render as complete, numbered footnotes — interleaved with any commentary footnotes in one sequence — while [bibliography] renders the separate alphabetical source list. Repeat-citation shortening (ibid. / short forms) and per-cite page numbers aren't part of the plugin's notes mode; for those, build a condensed bibliography in the CiteKit web app and embed it.
Which fields are supported per citation?
Author, Title, Year, and URL.
What is the difference between a custom ID and a UUID?
When you write [cite id="who-2024"], CiteKit uses that string as the citation's permanent identifier. When you write [cite] with no ID, CiteKit auto-assigns a UUID (e.g. a3f8c1d2-04be-4e7a-9b23-f1cc8820de45) on first save. Both work identically — custom IDs are simply easier to recognise and reuse across posts.
Can the same citation ID be used in multiple posts?
Yes. Two posts using [cite id="who-2024"] both point to the same reference record. Editing the metadata in either post's CiteBox updates the shared record everywhere.
What styles can tooltips use?
Three styles are supported. style="dashed" (default) and style="dotted" render with the tip attribute as the visible underlined term and the content between the tags as the definition shown on hover — e.g. [tooltip tip="FOSS"]Free and Open Source Software[/tooltip]. Any other string (such as *, †, ‡, §, ¶, or note) is treated as a symbol marker, rendered as a superscript where the shortcode content becomes the popup — e.g. [tooltip style="*"]Popup aside[/tooltip].
What is the difference between a tooltip and a footnote?
Tooltips are inline definitions or explanations that appear on hover only — supplementary aids that aren't part of the document's permanent record. Footnotes are numbered notes that appear both on hover AND in a full list at the end of the post via [footnotes] or the Footnotes by CiteKit block — they're part of the article's substantive content. Citations, by contrast, are numbered references to external sources that link to the bibliography. The Getting Started page inside your CiteKit admin includes a "What's the difference?" section that explains each feature side-by-side with examples.
How are footnotes numbered?
Footnotes are auto-numbered in order of appearance within each post, starting from 1. Numbering is per-post — each post has its own footnote sequence. Footnotes are distinct from citations: citations use bracketed baseline markers like [1], footnotes use superscript numbers like ¹.
What's the difference between the Footnotes by CiteKit block and WordPress's built-in Footnotes block?
WordPress added a native Footnotes block in core 6.3. It provides basic numbered footnotes at the bottom of the post with inline markers. The Footnotes by CiteKit block adds several features on top: hover popups on markers (so readers can preview without scrolling), an explicit list mode via [footnotes]one; two; three[/footnotes], custom heading control, integration with CiteKit's citation and bibliography system, and a consistent visual style shared with the rest of the plugin's features. You can use either — CiteKit's does more, WordPress core's is minimal.
Is this a replacement for Zotero or EndNote?
No. CiteKit is optimised for WordPress publishing workflows, not full academic reference management.
Does this work with the block editor?
Yes. CiteKit provides a Bibliography by CiteKit block, a Footnotes by CiteKit block, and three inline RichText formats (Citation, Tooltip, and Footnote) that appear as toolbar buttons on paragraphs, headings, list items, and quote blocks. Shortcodes continue to work in both the classic editor and the block editor.
Does CiteKit support custom post types?
Posts and pages are supported in the free version. Custom post type support is available in CiteKit Pro.
Does the Citation block support searching my reference library?
The block sidebar lets you enter a citation ID and reference details directly. A searchable reference picker that connects to your full library is available in CiteKit Pro.
更新日志:
4.2.0
- New: Portable citations — a [cite] shortcode can now carry a full reference payload, and CiteKit creates the library record for you when the post is saved. Write [cite id="nist-genai-2024" type="report" author="Autio, Chloe; Schwartz, Reva" title="..." year="2024" doi="10.6028/NIST.AI.600-1"] once, then simply [cite id="nist-genai-2024"] everywhere after. Both forms render identically.
- New: Articles can now carry their own sources. Paste in content written elsewhere — by a person, a script, or an AI research assistant — and the references it cites are reconstructed in your library automatically, with the bibliography working straight away. No separate import step, and no rebuilding references by hand.
- New: CiteKit Reference Schema v1 — one canonical reference model underneath everything. Citations, footnotes, bibliographies, imports, and exports now all speak the same vocabulary, with structured authors, structured dates, and normalized identifiers (DOI, ISBN, ISSN, PubMed ID).
- New: Reference reuse. If an incoming citation carries a DOI, PubMed ID, or ISBN that already exists in your library, CiteKit points the citation at that reference instead of creating a near-duplicate under a new ID — even when the identifier is written differently (a doi.org link, or an ISBN with hyphens). Matching is exact only: references that merely share a title, author, year, or journal stay separate, because collapsing two genuinely different works is worse than keeping the occasional duplicate.
- New: Your Reference Library stays authoritative. A payload can create a reference, but it can never overwrite one. If a pasted citation disagrees with a reference you already have, CiteKit keeps your stored version, renders it, and tells you in the editor exactly which fields differed — nothing changes until you decide it should.
- New: Organization authors are explicit. Write author="literal:World Health Organization" to record a corporate author, and author="Smith, John; Chen, Alice" for people. Where a name is genuinely ambiguous, CiteKit asks rather than guessing.
- New: Dataset and Standard source types.
- Improved: Validation before creation. A mistyped attribute is reported with a suggestion ("Did you mean url?") and the reference isn't created until it's fixed, so a typo can't quietly lose half a reference's metadata.
- Fixed: Restored the plugin's original main file name after a release changed it. Sites that installed the affected version migrate back automatically on update — CiteKit stays active, nothing needs reactivating, and no duplicate plugin appears. Sites already deactivated by the earlier change will need to be activated once by hand.
- Note: Adding a reference isn't the same as verifying it. Anything CiteKit ingests from pasted content should be reviewed before you publish, especially when the metadata comes from an AI tool.
- New: Add a source by looking it up. Paste a URL (or a YouTube link), a DOI, an ISBN, or a PubMed ID — or search by title — and CiteKit fetches the details, fills them in, and lets you edit anything before saving. No more retyping a reference from a browser tab.
- New: "Look up a source" in the citation tool. While writing, resolve a source and either Add to library or Add & cite — which saves the reference and drops the citation at your cursor in one step.
- New: "Add source" button on the Reference Library page, opening the same lookup panel so you can build your library directly, without needing a post to cite from.
- New: AI / LLM is a first-class source type. Cite ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and others with fields that actually fit — tool, model, company, date accessed, and the prompt — rendered correctly in all eight citation styles rather than being forced into the shape of a web page.
- New: Import and export references as BibTeX, RIS, or CSL-JSON. Bring in a library from another reference manager, or take yours with you. Imported references become real records in your library, not format-specific blobs — so they're immediately citable, editable, and usable in a bibliography.
- Maintenance: clean 4.0.x package (no functional changes).
- New: Chicago Notes-Bibliography (full notes) mode — set a post to Chicago (Notes-Bibliography) and your citations render as complete, numbered footnotes, interleaved with any commentary footnotes in one sequence, while the bibliography stays as a separate alphabetical source list.
- New: Vancouver and AMA citation styles — eight built-in styles in total.
- New: Editors field — record editor(s) on books, chapters, and edited volumes; rendered as "Ed./Eds./edited by" in the styles that use them.
- New: Optional Journal abbreviation field, used by IEEE, Vancouver, and AMA (falls back to the full journal name when blank).
- New: Post-level Citation Style panel in the document sidebar — set the style for a whole post, overriding the site default, and switch a post into Notes-Bibliography mode.
- New: Rebuilt bibliography — a collapsible "Works Cited" box with numbered entries, a back-link from each entry to its in-text citation, and a full CSS class system for theming.
- New: Footnotes now render in a matching boxed, titled, collapsible container, with a site-wide "Default state" (open / collapsed) setting.
- New: Premium — Rich footnotes & tooltips: a native editor for adding formatting, links, lists, images, alt text, and captions inside any footnote or tooltip, without writing custom markup.
- New: Premium — Custom Citation Style Builder: build your own in-text and bibliography formats with live preview, applied site-wide, per post type, or per post.
- New: Premium — Global citation editing: edit a reference from your Reference Library and the change propagates to every post that cites it.
- New: Premium — In-post reference search: search your library and insert a predefined reference from the editor.
- New: Premium — Custom post type support: use CiteKit on all posts, pages, and custom post types, and apply a custom-built style per post.
- New: Premium — Citation schema (schema.org / JSON-LD) for cited works.
- New: Coming soon: Premium — Web Sync, two-way syncing with CiteKit Web.
- Fixed: Footnote/tooltip popups could overflow into a sidebar on some themes (e.g. Divi).
- Note: Repeat-citation shortening (ibid. / short forms) and per-cite page numbers aren't part of full-notes mode; author a condensed bibliography in the CiteKit web app and embed it when you need those.
- Improved: APA author rendering now uses initials (Brown, B.) rather than full first names, matching APA 7th edition convention.
- Improved: Organizational authors (World Health Organization, Stanford University, etc.) are now detected and passed through unchanged rather than being mangled into initial form.
- Fixed: Double period after author initials in APA, MLA, and Chicago bibliography entries.
- New: You can now tell CiteKit what kind of source each citation is — a journal article, a book, a chapter, a report, a news article, a thesis, or a plain web page. Each type asks for the fields that actually matter for it.
- New: Lots more fields are available where they make sense — Journal, Volume, Issue, Pages, Publisher, Place, Edition, and DOI. You'll find them under "More fields" in CiteBox, and in the block editor sidebar.
- New: Multiple authors are supported. Enter them as "Smith, Jane; Doe, John" and each style handles the names the way it's supposed to.
- Improved: Bibliographies now render properly per source type. A journal article in Chicago, MLA, APA, Harvard, or IEEE actually looks like a journal article — with volume, issue, pages, and DOI when you've filled them in. Books show publisher and edition. Chapters, reports, news, and theses each get the treatment they should.
- Improved: The six built-in styles have been cleaned up across the board — punctuation, field order, italics — to match what each style guide actually calls for.
- Improved: The block editor sidebar panel now has the full set of fields. The toolbar popover stays small for quick inserts.
- Existing citations carry over automatically. Anything from before 3.2.0 starts out as a web page and you can change it whenever you like.
- New: Numbered footnote feature —
[footnote]...[/footnote]shortcode and Footnote toolbar format. Each footnote is auto-numbered in order of appearance and renders as a superscript marker with hover popup. - New:
[footnotes]shortcode and Footnotes by CiteKit block — renders the full numbered list at the end of the post with back-links to each marker. Explicit list mode also supported:[footnotes]one; two; three[/footnotes]. - New: Tooltip dashed/dotted underline styles.
[tooltip tip="Term"]Definition[/tooltip]renders thetipattribute as the visible inline term (dashed underline by default; dotted available viastyle="dotted") and the content between the tags as the definition shown on hover. Symbol-marker mode (style="*",†, etc.) remains fully supported and backward compatible — in symbol mode the shortcode content continues to serve as the popup. - New: "Footnotes by CiteKit" and "Bibliography by CiteKit" block names in the block inserter.
- New: Getting Started page - side-by-side feature cards explaining citations, tooltips, footnotes, and bibliographies, with a decision guide for which to use.
- Improved: Inline citation markers now render at baseline text level (e.g. [1]) instead of superscript, matching IEEE convention and creating clear visual hierarchy with footnote markers (which remain superscript). This makes citations and footnotes instantly distinguishable at a glance.
- Improved: Editor caret behavior after inserting a citation, tooltip, or footnote - a zero-width space is now appended so the cursor lands cleanly after the inserted token instead of getting stuck.
- New: Bibliography block — render a formatted bibliography directly from the block editor with style and heading controls in the sidebar.
- New: CiteKit block category in the Gutenberg inserter.
- New: Citation inline format — toolbar button on paragraphs, headings, list items, and quote blocks.
- New: Tooltip inline format — toolbar button to wrap selected text in a hover tooltip with custom marker symbol.
- New: [tooltip style="†"] attribute — set a custom superscript marker per tooltip. Defaults to † if omitted. Backward-compatible with all existing [tooltip] usage.
- New: Getting Started page with step-by-step slideshow.
- Improved: CiteBox metabox now displays truncated UUIDs alongside custom IDs so auto-assigned references are clearly distinguishable.
- Improved: All library queries now find both shortcode-based and block-based citations.
- Removed: Add Reference from Library button — references are created naturally by inserting citations in posts.
- New: Redesigned Reference Library with sort, search, and status filtering.
- New: Link Health Checker — checks whether source URLs are live or broken, with per-citation status badges.
- New: Settings page (CiteKit Library → Settings) — set a default bibliography style and heading used by all [bibliography] shortcodes site-wide.
- New: Remove from Post — remove a citation from a specific post directly from the Used In modal.
- New: post_count column — tracks how many posts reference each citation; unused records are cleaned up automatically.
- Improved: ID column added to CiteBox metabox.
- Fixed: [bibliography] heading now correctly uses the saved default title in all rendering paths.
- Initial release.
- Shortcode support for [cite], [bibliography], and [tooltip].
- Post-level citation editor (metabox).
- Citation Library in admin sidebar.
- APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE citation style support.