WordPress citation & bibliography plugin. Paste a DOI, PubMed ID, ISBN, or arXiv ID to insert citations and generate a reference list.
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Generate and display an interactive, multi-format academic citation box for WordPress posts with one-click copy and realtime style switcher.
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Create accessible, structured bibliographies from DOI, PubMed, BibTeX, RIS, CSL-JSON, free text, and manual entries — with RIS export.
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Zotpress displays your Zotero citations on WordPress.
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Automatically sync and display publications and citation metrics for researchers, labs, or an entire faculty.
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Footnotes Made Easyv3.2.2
Allows post authors to easily add and manage footnotes in posts and pages.
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