Cite an article

Every article page has a Cite button in its reader tools, next to Copy link and Save. It writes a reference to the article in the format you choose, ready to paste into a manuscript or a reference manager. To cite many articles at once, put them in a list and use Bibliography (see Lists and bibliographies).

Copy a reference

Open the article and press Cite. The dialog Cite this article opens.
Choose a Format:
- APA 7
- MLA 9
- Chicago (author-date)
- Harvard
- Vancouver
- IEEE
- BibTeX
- RIS (Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote)
Press Copy.
Optional: press Use this format by default. The dialog then opens on that format next time, and bibliographies start on it too. The choice is kept in this browser only.

Copy link next to Cite copies the article’s address, for example https://cabdell.press/testnet/a/12.

What the reference contains

Part	What is used
Version	the article’s current version; APA writes “(Version N)” from version 2 on, and BibTeX and RIS always name the version in their note
Date	the date of that version (in UTC)
Kind	“Preprint” for an article that is a preprint or under review, “Data set” for a dataset, “Retracted” for a retracted article, or “Notes”, “Replication”, “Amendment”
Publisher	“Cabdell TestNet” on TestNet; “Cabdell” on MainNet
Link	the article’s DOI link when it has one; otherwise its address. Vancouver and IEEE always give the address and add the DOI; BibTeX and RIS have a field for each
CID	in BibTeX and RIS, the fingerprint (CID) of the cited version, in the note
Accessed	today’s date, in the styles that ask for it (MLA, Harvard, Vancouver)

Which DOI. If an author declared a DOI for the cited version, that one; otherwise the DOI declared for every version (version 0, Zenodo’s concept DOI). Only DOIs that are verified, or that Cabdell cannot check, are used: never one whose record contradicts it (see Get a DOI with Zenodo).

Example

An article with two authors, the first with a verified ORCID record (family name Carberry, given name Josiah), the second known only by the NFD name alice.algo; version 2 of 1 October 2026, a preprint on TestNet, with a sandbox DOI. In APA 7:

Carberry, J., & alice.algo. (2026). Heart-rate recovery after repeated sprints (Version 2) [Preprint]. Cabdell TestNet. https://doi.org/10.5072/zenodo.1234567

The same in BibTeX:

@misc{ariadne_testnet_12_v2,
  author = {Carberry, Josiah and alice.algo},
  title = {Heart-rate recovery after repeated sprints},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  publisher = {Cabdell TestNet},
  url = {https://cabdell.press/testnet/a/12},
  doi = {10.5072/zenodo.1234567},
  note = {Preprint, Version 2, CID bafybeidzsrohfscy7xlt4dh53j3kmlxunjl3r2354pvtfn6pysnjpmduna}
}

Author names

The blockchain records addresses, not names. A reference lists the publishing author and the co-authors who confirmed, in the article’s order (declared co-authors who have not confirmed are left out), each written as Cabdell knows them:

the name on their verified ORCID record (see Link your ORCID iD);
else their NFD name, a name ending in .algo that the owner of the address chose, such as alice.algo (see Identity);
else their address.

An NFD name or an address is written as it is. An ORCID name is written the way each style asks: “Carberry, J.” in APA, “Carberry J” in Vancouver, “J. Carberry” in IEEE, “Carberry, Josiah” in BibTeX and RIS.

How an ORCID name is read

An ORCID record has a “given names” field and a “family name” field. When the family name is filled, it is used exactly. Many people write their whole name in “given names” and leave the family name empty, so such a name is read as given names followed by family names (DECISIONS D-125):

Whole name on the record	Given names	Family name
`Vega Ortiz, Lucía` (with a comma)	Lucía	Vega Ortiz
`Pieter van Dijk` (a particle starts the family name)	Pieter	van Dijk
`Ana Torres` (two words)	Ana	Torres
`Lucía Vega Ortiz` (three words)	Lucía	Vega Ortiz
`María José García López` (four or more)	María José	García López
`Ana Ruiz y Mora` (joined by y, e or i)	Ana	Ruiz y Mora
`Aiyana` (one word)		kept as one name: Aiyana

The particles are da, das, de, del, della, der, den, di, do, dos, du, la, le, van, von, ter, ten, zu, bin, ibn, al and el, when they are neither the first nor the last word. Three words are read as one given name and two family names, as Spanish and Portuguese names usually are.

Save as PDF or print

PDF / Print, next to Cite on every article, opens your browser’s print dialog; choose Save as PDF to keep a PDF. The printed copy shows the article alone, in a reading layout (no menus or buttons), with figures, tables and formulas kept whole, and the addresses of links written out. It starts with a record of what it is:

the version and its date, the article’s address and its CID (the fingerprint of the signed content);
the DOI and the licence, when there are;
the state of the Peer-reviewed seal;
on TestNet, that the article carries no reputation on MainNet;
Cite as, the APA reference of that version.

The PDF is made by your browser from the page: Cabdell’s server renders nothing and stores nothing, and the signed article remains the content at its CID. Anyone can check a printed copy against it.

Cite so that Cabdell counts it

When you cite a Cabdell article in your own Cabdell article, Cabdell counts the citation if your text (or the references list of its header) contains one of these:

a link to the article’s page on the same network, such as https://cabdell.press/testnet/a/12;
a DOI that the cited article declared;
the CID of one of its versions.

The references that Cite produces always contain at least one of them, so pasting them into a visible ## References section is enough. Citations from an amendment to the article it amends count automatically. See Citations and Thread Score for the exact rules.