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Citation plugin for Obsidian note-taking with BibTeX support

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# Obsidian Citation Guide

A skill for using the Obsidian Citation Plugin to integrate bibliographic references from BibTeX or CSL-JSON files into the Obsidian knowledge management workflow. Based on obsidian-citation-plugin (1K stars), this skill enables researchers to create literature notes, insert citations, and build interconnected knowledge bases grounded in their reference libraries.

## Overview

Academic researchers need their notes to be deeply connected to their references. The Obsidian Citation Plugin bridges BibTeX or CSL-JSON bibliography files with Obsidian's note-taking system, enabling seamless creation of literature notes from reference entries, quick citation insertion while writing, and automatic backlinking between notes and their source references.

Unlike Zotero-specific integrations, this plugin works with any tool that exports standard BibTeX or CSL-JSON, making it compatible with Zotero, JabRef, Mendeley, EndNote, and even hand-crafted .bib files.

## Setup and Configuration

**Prerequisites**
- Obsidian with community plugins enabled