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Hello this is Tim Langeman, creator of CiteIt.net:
a higher standard of citation
for news organizations, academics, and web authors.
Wouldn’t it be great if web authors could easily demonstrate the authenticity and context of their quotations to skeptical and curious readers?
2 Types of Citations
CiteIt.net enables authors to do just that through the choice of two different citation options depending upon a citation’s length.
1) The first type of citation is the expanding block quote which is used for longer quotes that form their own paragraphs.
2) The second type of citation is for shorter quotations and uses a popup window to display the context without disturbing the original paragraph.
We don’t need to have a WordPress website or install the plugin to do a test-drive. Simply go to the demo area and login with the supplied password.
Let’s begin by clicking Posts > Add New to create a new Post.
We are now ready to create each of the 2 types of citations:
- the blockquote, and
- the inline popup.
Blockquote Citations
We can enter the title and intro for our post like we ordinarily would compose a post.
In the next step, we grab a copy of our quote, which in this case is on the medium.com website.
We select our text and then right-click and select copy.
Next, we switch back to the editor tab and paste the quote in the position where we want it.
Making sure to first select the quote, we next click on the CiteIt.net blockquote button. This is one of two buttons that the CiteIt.net WordPress plugin adds to the editor.
When we click on the CiteIt.net blockquote button, a window pops up for us to enter our source’s URL.
To enter the URL, we switch to the tab containing the Medium.com article and copy the URL from the address bar using “right-click Copy”.
We then switch back to the blog post and paste the URL into the popup window and click “OK“.
The blockquote paragraph should now be indented and we are ready to click on the “Publish button“.
For webpages, the app should only require a few seconds to request the article and find the 500 characters of context before and after the original source. PDF and YouTube pages take longer unless they’ve been previously downloaded and cached.
We’re now ready to view the published post by locating the post’s permalink and clicking on it.
We should now see the published post, with the blue arrows above and below the quote.
If we click on the arrows, we should see the surrounding context appear and disappear as we toggle the arrows.
If we want to visit the original source, we can click on the “source” link.
Inline Popups
Ok, we’ve done with the first of the two citation formats. Now its time to do the second type of citation — the “inline popup“.
We can make a new post for the inline popup example and enter some text for a title and body. The source for this post is a Wikisource publication of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
So I’ll grab one of the lines that helps explain the book’s title:
“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
The process that we use next is exactly the same as for the blockquote, but this time we will click on the “inline popup button“.
After we’ve copied the quote into the blog post, we make sure it is selected and we click the second CiteIt.net button — the inline popup.
We locate the page’s URL and copy it into the popup prompt.
This time, the quotation is not automatically indented. Rather, the inline popup can appear in the middle of a paragraph without breaking up the text.
When we click “Publish” the App contacts Wikisource for the original quote and locates the 500 characters before and after the quote. It then saves the context in a little text snippet which the readers load when they click on the arrows or popup link.
Let’s now click on the “permalink” button again to view the published post.
This time, instead of expanding arrows, we see double-blue lines under our quote.
If we click on the link, a popup appears, showing the original quote, along with the surrounding context.
Summary:
Thank you for your interest in CiteIt.net
a higher standard of citation
for news organizations, academics, and web authors.
In this video I’ve demonstrated how to use the CiteIt.net WordPress plugin to make two types of citations:
- Using the blockquote tag for longer quotations
- Using the inline popup for shorter selections
CiteIt.net aims to change norms,
so next time you read or hear someone make an unsubstantiated quotation or claim, ask them: