diff --git a/docs/Project.toml b/docs/Project.toml
index f36368924c9c..72dca71655b5 100644
--- a/docs/Project.toml
+++ b/docs/Project.toml
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ DocumenterCitations = "daee34ce-89f3-4625-b898-19384cb65244"
 
 [compat]
 Documenter = "1.1"
-DocumenterCitations = "~1.1, ~1.2"
+DocumenterCitations = "~1.2"
diff --git a/docs/citation_style.jl b/docs/citation_style.jl
index d881daea7bc1..5753fb9e97f0 100644
--- a/docs/citation_style.jl
+++ b/docs/citation_style.jl
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 import DocumenterCitations
 
 # we use some (undocumented) internal helper functions for formatting...
-using DocumenterCitations: format_names, tex2unicode, italicize_md_et_al
+using DocumenterCitations: format_names, tex2unicode
 
 const oscar_style = :oscar
 
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ function DocumenterCitations.format_citation(
       )
     end
     capitalize && (names = uppercasefirst(names))
-    link_text = italicize_md_et_al("$names $link_text")
+    link_text = "$names $link_text"
   end
   return link_text
 end
diff --git a/docs/make_work.jl b/docs/make_work.jl
index c2c5c347d5eb..004b640e0e2b 100644
--- a/docs/make_work.jl
+++ b/docs/make_work.jl
@@ -182,8 +182,7 @@ function doit(
       Documenter.doctest(Oscar, fix = doctest === :fix)
     end
 
-    makedocs(
-      bib;
+    makedocs(;
       format=Documenter.HTML(; prettyurls=!local_build, collapselevel=1),
       sitename="Oscar.jl",
       modules=[Oscar, Oscar.Hecke, Oscar.Nemo, Oscar.AbstractAlgebra, Oscar.Singular],
@@ -192,6 +191,7 @@ function doit(
       warnonly=warnonly,
       checkdocs=:none,
       pages=doc,
+      plugins=[bib]
     )
   end