A Cite node is used within a CreativeWork, usually an Article, to refer to an other CreativeWork. Often a Cite will be associated with other citations, in a CiteGroup.

Properties

The Cite type has these properties:

Name	Description	Type	Inherited from	JSON-LD @id	Aliases
id	The identifier for this item.	String	Entity	schema:id	-
target	The target of the citation (URL or reference ID).	String	-	schema:target	-
citationMode	Determines how the citation is shown within the surrounding text.	CitationMode	-	stencila:citationMode	citation-mode, citation_mode
citationIntent	The type/s of the citation, both factually and rhetorically.	CitationIntent*	-	stencila:citationIntent	citation-intent, citation_intent
content	Optional structured content/text of this citation.	Inline*	-	stencila:content	-
pageStart	The page on which the work starts; for example "135" or "xiii".	Integer | String	-	schema:pageStart	page-start, page_start
pageEnd	The page on which the work ends; for example "138" or "xvi".	Integer | String	-	schema:pageEnd	page-end, page_end
pagination	Any description of pages that is not separated into pageStart and pageEnd; for example, "1-6, 9, 55".	String	-	schema:pagination	-
citationPrefix	Text to show before the citation.	String	-	stencila:citationPrefix	citation-prefix, citation_prefix
citationSuffix	Text to show after the citation.	String	-	stencila:citationSuffix	citation-suffix, citation_suffix

Related

The Cite type is related to these types:

• Parents: Entity
• Children: none

Formats

The Cite type can be encoded (serialized) to, and/or decoded (deserialized) from, these formats:

Format	Encoding	Decoding	Support	Notes
DOM HTML	🟢 No loss
HTML	🔷 Low loss
JATS			Encoded using special function
Markdown	⚠️ High loss		Encoded using implemented function
Stencila Markdown	⚠️ High loss
Quarto Markdown	⚠️ High loss
MyST Markdown	⚠️ High loss
LLM Markdown	⚠️ High loss
LaTeX	🔷 Low loss	🔷 Low loss
PDF	🔷 Low loss
Plain text	⚠️ High loss
IPYNB	🔷 Low loss	🔷 Low loss
Microsoft Word DOCX	🔷 Low loss	🔷 Low loss
OpenDocument ODT	🔷 Low loss	🔷 Low loss
TeX	🔷 Low loss	🔷 Low loss
JSON	🟢 No loss	🟢 No loss
JSON+Zip	🟢 No loss	🟢 No loss
JSON5	🟢 No loss	🟢 No loss
JSON-LD	🟢 No loss	🟢 No loss
CBOR	🟢 No loss	🟢 No loss
CBOR+Zstandard	🟢 No loss	🟢 No loss
YAML	🟢 No loss	🟢 No loss
Lexical JSON	🔷 Low loss	🔷 Low loss
Koenig JSON	🔷 Low loss	🔷 Low loss
Pandoc AST	🔷 Low loss	🔷 Low loss
Directory
Stencila Web Bundle
Debug	🔷 Low loss

Bindings

The Cite type is represented in:

• JSON-LD
• JSON Schema
• Python class Cite
• Rust struct Cite
• TypeScript class Cite

Source

This documentation was generated from Cite.yaml by docs_types.rs.