{% citation %}

Attributes

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`key`	string	✓	Unique citation key used to reference this entry with {% cite %} — kebab-case recommended (e.g. rogers1961)
`title`	string	—	Title of the cited work
`author`	string	—	Author name(s)
`date`	string	—	Publication year or ISO 8601 date
`url`	string	—	URL of the online resource
`publisher`	string	—	Publisher or journal name
`accessed`	string	—	Date the URL was last accessed (ISO 8601)

Valid Parent Contexts

This tag is valid inside: {% article %}

Rules

Rule	Force	Realm	Reference	Description
`citation-key-unique-per-article`	must	global	—	Citation keys must be unique within an article. Use descriptive kebab-case keys that encode author and year: , , . convention
`citation-key-dedup-global`	must	global	—	If the same key appears in multiple articles, the bibliography aggregate deduplicates by key (first occurrence wins). conventionaggregate
`citation-placement`	should	global	—	Place all entries at the end of the article after all prose, grouped together. This keeps citation data separate from article content and makes bibliography maintenance straightforward. authoring

\{% citation %\} is always self-closing (/%\}). It produces no inline visual output — it is a data declaration.

Bibliography aggregate

All \{% citation %\} entries across all articles are collected and rendered at /bibliography, sorted alphabetically by author. The BibliographyTable.astro component displays each entry with title, author, date, publisher, and a URL link when present.

The aggregate page is generated only if at least one \{% citation %\} exists. A Bibliography link appears in the Journal sidebar section when the aggregate is non-empty.

{% citation key="rogers1961" title="On Becoming a Person" author="Carl Rogers"
            date="1961" publisher="Houghton Mifflin" /%}

{% citation key="gottman1999" title="The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work"
            author="John Gottman & Nan Silver" date="1999" publisher="Crown"
            url="https://www.gottman.com/product/the-seven-principles-for-making-marriage-work/" /%}

{% citation key="circling2016" title="Circling: The Art of Relational Meditation"
            author="Marc Beneteau" date="2016" url="https://circlinginstitute.com" /%}