Install using:
pip install django-citations
Add “citations” to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this:
INSTALLED_APPS = (
...
'citations',
)
Set up the database:
python manage.py migrate citations
You can use the admin panel to create references for your site. These can have a range of details including ISBN, URLs, titles, etc. Each reference must have a unique slug. This is how we will refer to the reference when we cite it within a template.
To refer to a reference in your database, you first need to load the tags in your template:
{% load citation_tags %}
You can then do the following in your template where you want the reference to appear:
{% cite "my_reference_slug" %}
You can refer to multiple references at a time by just adding new slugs separated by spaces. Note that quotation marks are required around the slugs, and slug names should not contain spaces:
{% cite "my_first_reference_slug" "my_second_reference_slug" %}
If you attempt to reference a work that is not in your reference list a TemplateSyntaxError will be raised showing the offending reference slug.
The references will be included in text as numbers - e.g. [1], or [1, 2] for multiple references. Reference objects will also be placed in the reference_list variable of the template’s context.
A reference list can be included at the bottom of the document:
{% show_references reference_list %}