Cite This Article helps online publishers give readers a reliable way to cite and credit their work. Built for academic, medical, research-heavy, and other source-driven websites, it adds author information and ready-to-use article citations directly to WordPress posts.<\/p>\n\n
Build author boxes for single- or multiple-author posts, add guest authors manually when a WordPress account is not needed, use local images from the WordPress Media Library, or automatically resolve authors and guest authors from Co-Authors Plus.<\/p>\n\n
Authors can appear together in one combined author box or in individual author cards, with their own bios and images where available.<\/p>\n\n
Each author box can include a Cite This Article<\/strong> panel that gives readers a consistent way to identify the article's authors and publication details, copy the article citation, or export the reference to their reference manager.<\/p>\n\n Cite This Article is designed for publishers whose work may itself become a source \u2014 from academic and medical publications to research-heavy blogs, journalism, analysis, and other evidence-driven content.<\/p>\n\n Free citation tools at CiteKit.com<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Cite This Article supports multiple authors natively<\/strong> rather than requiring a particular multi-author plugin.<\/p>\n\n Multiple authors can come from:<\/p>\n\n Manual authors can also be used as guest authors<\/strong> when you need to credit a contributor without creating a WordPress user account.<\/p>\n\n Authors can be displayed in two ways:<\/p>\n\n Combined<\/strong> \u2014 All resolved authors appear together in one author box.<\/p>\n\n Individual<\/strong> \u2014 Each resolved author receives a separate author card with their own avatar and author bio where available. One shared citation panel continues to represent the complete article and all of its authors.<\/p>\n\n Manual description overrides are available for individual authors, while profile biographies are used automatically when available.<\/p>\n\n See the Multiple Authors documentation<\/a> for configuration details.<\/p>\n\n Cite This Article can automatically use WordPress author profile information to build an author bio box<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n Depending on the author source and layout, the plugin can display:<\/p>\n\n In Individual layout, each author can have their own author bio and profile image.<\/p>\n\n Visual author-box information remains separate from the author names used to generate the article citation. Changing a display name or author bio does not replace the citation author list.<\/p>\n\n The reader-facing Cite This Article<\/strong> panel turns the finished WordPress article into something readers can identify, cite, and save more reliably.<\/p>\n\n The citation panel:<\/p>\n\n The plugin can also output citation-aware page metadata (Google\/Highwire This combines author presentation with a consistent reader-facing way to cite and credit the published work.<\/p>\n\n The plugin includes a dedicated Gutenberg block called Author Box with Citation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n Block controls include:<\/p>\n\n Leave the manual authors field empty to let Cite This Article resolve the post author automatically.<\/p>\n\n The block can be used as a simple WordPress author bio box or as a complete multiple-author presentation and article-citation component.<\/p>\n\n See Layout & Styling<\/a> for display options.<\/p>\n\n Use the Displays the automatically resolved post author using the default author box settings.<\/p>\n\n Displays all resolved authors together in one author box.<\/p>\n\n Displays one author card for each resolved author.<\/p>\n\n Manual authors do not need WordPress user accounts, so they can also be used for guest contributors.<\/p>\n\n Cite This Article resolves the article's author collection separately from its visual author-box fields.<\/p>\n\n By default, authors are resolved in this order:<\/p>\n\n Manual authors can be used for named guest contributors who do not have WordPress accounts.<\/p>\n\n This means multiple-author and guest-author support are part of Cite This Article itself rather than being tied to one particular author plugin.<\/p>\n\n Citation generation and author-box presentation use the same resolved author collection, while visual fields such as display names, bios, and images can be customized independently.<\/p>\n\n Cite This Article supports author integrations that can provide the author collection used by the author box, multiple-author layouts, and article citation.<\/p>\n\n Co-Authors Plus is currently supported automatically.<\/p>\n\n When Co-Authors Plus is active, Cite This Article can:<\/p>\n\n No separate shortcode or special integration setup is required when automatic author resolution is enabled.<\/p>\n\n If Co-Authors Plus is not installed, Cite This Article continues to work with its native multiple-author and guest-author handling and the standard WordPress author system.<\/p>\n\n Author boxes can be displayed horizontally or vertically.<\/p>\n\n Image controls include:<\/p>\n\n Combined layout is useful for compact multi-author articles. Individual layout is useful when each contributor needs a distinct author bio, image, or description.<\/p>\n\n\n
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Multiple Authors<\/h3>\n\n
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Author Bios and Profiles<\/h3>\n\n
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citation_*<\/code> tags) so tools such as Zotero and other reference managers can recognize and save your articles more accurately.<\/p>\n\nGutenberg Block<\/h3>\n\n
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[author_box]<\/code> shortcode anywhere WordPress shortcodes are supported.<\/p>\n\nBasic Author Box<\/h4>\n\n
[author_box]\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\nHorizontal Author Box<\/h4>\n\n
[author_box layout=\"horizontal\"]\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\nVertical Author Box<\/h4>\n\n
[author_box layout=\"vertical\"]\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\nRound Author Image<\/h4>\n\n
[author_box avatar_shape=\"round\"]\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\nSquare Author Image<\/h4>\n\n
[author_box avatar_shape=\"square\"]\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\nLarge Author Image<\/h4>\n\n
[author_box avatar_size=\"lg\"]\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\nSmall Author Image<\/h4>\n\n
[author_box avatar_size=\"sm\"]\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\nAuthor Box Without an Image<\/h4>\n\n
[author_box image_mode=\"none\"]\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\nCombined Multiple-Author Box<\/h4>\n\n
[author_box author_layout=\"combined\"]\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\nIndividual Multiple-Author Cards<\/h4>\n\n
[author_box author_layout=\"individual\" image_mode=\"individual\"]\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\nManual Multiple Authors or Guest Authors<\/h4>\n\n
[author_box authors=\"Jane Doe|John Smith|Alex Lee\"]\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\nManual Multiple Authors With Individual Cards<\/h4>\n\n
[author_box authors=\"Jane Doe|John Smith|Alex Lee\" author_layout=\"individual\" image_mode=\"individual\"]\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\nManual Author Name<\/h4>\n\n
[author_box name=\"Jane Doe\"]\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\nCustom Author Tagline<\/h4>\n\n
[author_box tagline=\"Science and Health Editor\"]\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\nCustom Author Bio<\/h4>\n\n
[author_box description=\"Jane writes about evidence-based health, nutrition, and medical research.\"]\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\nCustom Name, Tagline and Bio<\/h4>\n\n
[author_box name=\"Jane Doe\" tagline=\"Senior Editor\" description=\"Jane covers research, policy, and public health.\"]\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\nCustom Author Image URL<\/h4>\n\n
[author_box image=\"https:\/\/example.com\/images\/jane-doe.jpg\"]\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\nWordPress Media Library Image<\/h4>\n\n
[author_box image_id=\"123\"]\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\nMultiple Authors With Individual Images<\/h4>\n\n
[author_box authors=\"Jane Doe|John Smith\" author_layout=\"individual\" image_mode=\"individual\" author_images=\"123|456\"]\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\nCustomized Horizontal Author Box<\/h4>\n\n
[author_box name=\"Jane Doe\" tagline=\"Senior Editor\" layout=\"horizontal\" avatar_shape=\"square\" avatar_size=\"lg\"]\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\nCustomized Vertical Author Box<\/h4>\n\n
[author_box name=\"Jane Doe\" description=\"Jane covers research and public health.\" layout=\"vertical\" avatar_shape=\"round\" avatar_size=\"md\"]\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\nRender an Author Box for Another Post<\/h4>\n\n
[author_box post_id=\"123\"]\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\nCustom Heading<\/h4>\n\n
[author_box title=\"Written by\"]\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\nChoose Which Export Links to Show<\/h4>\n\n
[author_box export=\"bib,ris,csl-json\"]\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\nHide the Export Links<\/h4>\n\n
[author_box export=\"none\"]\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\nAccepted Attributes<\/h4>\n\n
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name<\/code> \u2014 Override the displayed author name<\/li>\nauthors<\/code> \u2014 Supply multiple or guest authors separated with |<\/code><\/li>\ntagline<\/code> \u2014 Override the author tagline<\/li>\ndescription<\/code> \u2014 Override the author bio or description<\/li>\nimage<\/code> \u2014 Supply an author image URL<\/li>\nimage_id<\/code> \u2014 Use an image from the WordPress Media Library<\/li>\nauthor_images<\/code> \u2014 Supply image IDs for multiple individual authors<\/li>\nauthor_layout<\/code> \u2014 combined<\/code> or individual<\/code><\/li>\nimage_mode<\/code> \u2014 single<\/code>, individual<\/code>, or none<\/code><\/li>\nlayout<\/code> \u2014 horizontal<\/code> or vertical<\/code><\/li>\navatar_shape<\/code> \u2014 round<\/code> or square<\/code><\/li>\navatar_size<\/code> \u2014 sm<\/code>, md<\/code>, or lg<\/code><\/li>\ntitle<\/code> \u2014 Override the author-box heading for this box<\/li>\nexport<\/code> \u2014 Choose export formats (bib<\/code>, ris<\/code>, csl-json<\/code>) or none<\/code> to hide them<\/li>\npost_id<\/code> \u2014 Render the author box using another post's author context<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nAuthor Resolution<\/h3>\n\n
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