CiteKit – Citation and Reference Manager
Manage all your references in one place. Add in-text citations, tooltips, and auto-generated bibliographies to your WordPress posts in APA, MLA, Chica …
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·30 active installs·Updated 2 weeks agoAs of April 2026, CiteKit is a WordPress tooltips plugin with 30 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 588 times in total. Requires WordPress 6.1+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2025. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Top alternative: Easy Footnotes.
0/5Rating
30active installs
588total downloads
1 yearsince 2025
Overview
CiteKit makes it easy to add professional in-text citations to your WordPress content using simple shortcodes. Automatically generate a bibliography at the end of any post with [bibliography], styled in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other major formats.
Every citation gets a stable unique ID the moment it’s inserted. Use the Reference Library to track, audit, and manage every citation across your entire site – and check whether your source URLs are still live.
Features
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Inline [cite] Shortcode with Auto-ID
Insert citations directly into post content using [cite]. Unique IDs are automatically assigned, or set a custom ID with [cite id=”who-2024″]. -
CiteBox — Post-Level Citation Editor
A dedicated metabox in the post and page editor shows every citation in the cu…
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.1+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.0.0
- New: Redesigned Reference Library
- New: Link health checker – checks whether source URLs are live
- New: Settings page (Citations → Settings) — set a default bibliography style and heading used by all [bibliography] shortcodes site-wide
- New: DB version gating — schema migrations only run when needed, not on every admin page load
- Improved: ID column added to CiteKit metabox
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Contributors
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