Bibliography and Citation support for Python-Markdown

This extension to Python Markdown is inspired by the support for citations in R Markdown. It looks for all citation keys with the form @<citekey> inside matching square brackets and appends a bibliography to the output. The references associated with the citation keys can be defined manually or generated from a BibTeX file.

Installation

Running

$ python setup.py build
$ python setup.py install

will install a module named mdx_bib.

import markdown
from mdx_bib import CitationExtension

cite = CitationExtension(bibtex_file='library.bib', order='unsorted')
html = markdown.markdown(text, extensions=[cite])

Syntax

Citation keys are any identifiers inside square brackets with a @-prefix

Some claim [see @adams98].

Some claim [@adams98; @barney04].

The first line will be converted

<p>Some claim [see <a id="cite-adams98" href="#ref-adams98" class="citation>@adams98</a>.</p>

This extension will first look for any manually defined bibligraphy entries, for example

[@barney04]: Barneby, C.D. *A review of reviews*. Annual Reviews of Something (2104)

If a matching reference definition cannot be found, then the extension looks in the BibTeX file for a matching citation key.