rehype plugin to nicely format citations in markdown documents and insert bibliography in html format. It is meant to be used as a server side plugin and neatly integrates citeproc-js and citation-js within the remark-rehype ecosystem. Parsing of citations and all the wonderful regexes are adapted from Zettlr.
It supports both normal citations (such as [@foo]) and in-text citation (such as @foo), as well as author-date, numerical, and note styles.
Note styles is only compatible with Github Formatted Markdown (GFM). It is recommended to run remark-gfm before rehype-citation to ensure all footnote elements are correctly formatted.
API and options follows very closely to Rmarkdown and Pandoc
This package is ESM only:
Node 12+ is needed to use it and it must be imported instead of required.
npm install rehype-citationIf you are using the plugin in a node environment, import from rehype-citation/node. For browser environments, import from rehype-citation/browser.
The following files are exported:
generator, generator function. Can be used to generate a rehype citation plugin. Takes in a citation-js Cite class.
cite, a citation-js Cite instance. Add your own CSL / locales before passing in to the plugin generator .
rehype-citation, re-exports the above 2 packages with a pre-configured rehype-citation plugin ready to use. Importing from rehype-citation directs to this file.
Use this package as a rehype plugin.
Some examples of how you might do that:
import rehype from 'rehype'
import rehypeCitation from 'rehype-citation'
rehype().use(rehypeCitation).process(/* some html */)Input:
My markdown text [@Nash1950]HTML Output:
<div>My markdown text (Nash, 1950)</div>
<div id="refs" class="references csl-bib-body">
<div class="csl-entry">
Nash, J. (1950). Equilibrium points in n-person games.
<i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</i>, <i>36</i>(1), 48–49.
</div>
</div>The default plugin comes configured with the en-US locale and the following CSL styles: apa, vancouver, harvard1, chicago and mla.
Use the generator function to customize your own remark-citation plugin and add your own CSL styles or locales.
import Cite from 'rehype-citation/cite'
import rehypeCitationGenerator from 'rehype-citation/generator'
import myStyle from '../style'
import myLocale from '../locale'
const config = Cite.plugins.config.get('@csl')
config.templates.add('mystyle', myStyle)
config.locales.add('myLocale', myLocale)
const rehypeCitation = rehypeCitationGenerator(Cite)rehype().use(rehypeCitation, [options])
If no bibliography file is passed, the plugin will be skipped.
Type: string|string[].
By default, if no bibliography file is passed, the plugin will be skipped.
Name or path to Bibtex, CSL-JSON or CFF file. If multiple files are provided, they will be merged.
Type: string.
Default: process.cwd().
Required, path to file. Will be joined with options.bibliography and options.csl, if provided.
Type: 'apa'|'vancouver'|'harvard1'|'chicago'|'mla'|string.
Default: apa.
For the main rehypeCitation plugin, one of 'apa', 'vancouver', 'harvard1', 'chicago', 'mla'. A local file path or URL to a valid CSL file is also accepted. Can also be specified as a frontmatter option in the markdown file to override the default.
Type: string.
Default: en-US.
Locale to use in formatting citations. Defaults to en-US. A local file path or URL to a valid locale file is also accepted.
Type: boolean.
Default: false.
Suppress bibliography? By default, biliography is inserted after the entire markdown file. If the file contains [^ref], the biliography will be inserted there instead.
Type: string[].
Citation IDs (@item1) to include in the bibliography even if they are not cited in the document. Can also be specified as a frontmatter option in the markdown file.
Type: string[].
Array of classes for inline citations.
Type: string[].
Array of classes for inline bibliography. Leave empty to disable inline bibliography.
Type: boolean.
Default: false.
If true, citations will be hyperlinked to the corresponding bibliography entries (for author-date and numeric styles only).