From 5272fcb158c1f5bb7490e8677c04ca34de812ed7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "copilot-swe-agent[bot]" <198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2026 15:25:46 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/5] Initial plan


From 46dd74783bd949c1b78ad4eb8e608ba8a26946df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "copilot-swe-agent[bot]" <198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2026 15:33:55 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/5] Add FReD citation auto-update functionality

Co-authored-by: LukasWallrich <60155545+LukasWallrich@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 .github/workflows/data-processing.yml | 31 +++++++++
 data/fred_citation.json               |  3 +
 layouts/shortcodes/cite-us.html       | 19 ++++--
 scripts/update_fred_citation.py       | 97 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 145 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 data/fred_citation.json
 create mode 100644 scripts/update_fred_citation.py

diff --git a/.github/workflows/data-processing.yml b/.github/workflows/data-processing.yml
index 39b1db9709f..472fa8cdfdb 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/data-processing.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/data-processing.yml
@@ -241,6 +241,32 @@ jobs:
             exit 1
           fi
 
+      #========================================
+      # Update FReD citation (Weekly or Manual)
+      #========================================
+      - name: Update FReD Citation
+        continue-on-error: true  # Continue even if this step fails
+        run: |
+          echo "=== Updating FReD citation ==="
+          
+          # Check if it's a Sunday (day 0) OR manually triggered
+          CURRENT_DAY_OF_WEEK=$(date +%u)
+          if [ "$CURRENT_DAY_OF_WEEK" != "7" ] && [ "${{ github.event_name }}" != "workflow_dispatch" ]; then
+            echo "ℹ️ Skipping FReD citation update (not Sunday and not manual trigger)"
+            exit 0
+          fi
+          
+          echo "🔄 Running FReD citation update..."
+          python3 scripts/update_fred_citation.py
+          
+          if [ -f "data/fred_citation.json" ]; then
+            echo "✅ FReD citation updated successfully"
+            echo "Citation length: $(wc -c < data/fred_citation.json) bytes"
+          else
+            echo "❌ FReD citation file was not created"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
       #=======================================================
       # Create a pull request for GA data updates on monthly runs
       #=======================================================
@@ -341,6 +367,7 @@ jobs:
           cp -r content/curated_resources /tmp/generated-resources/
           cp content/contributors/tenzing.md /tmp/generated-resources/ || true
           cp data/ga_data.json /tmp/generated-resources/ga_data.json || true
+          cp data/fred_citation.json /tmp/generated-resources/fred_citation.json || true
           
           # Copy additional generated files
           mkdir -p /tmp/generated-resources/contributor-analysis
@@ -389,6 +416,9 @@ jobs:
           if [ -f /tmp/generated-resources/ga_data.json ]; then
             cp /tmp/generated-resources/ga_data.json data/ga_data.json
           fi
+          if [ -f /tmp/generated-resources/fred_citation.json ]; then
+            cp /tmp/generated-resources/fred_citation.json data/fred_citation.json
+          fi
           if [ -f /tmp/generated-resources/summaries.json ]; then
             cp /tmp/generated-resources/summaries.json data/summaries.json
           fi
@@ -417,6 +447,7 @@ jobs:
             git add content/curated_resources/ 2>/dev/null || true
             git add content/contributors/tenzing.md 2>/dev/null || true
             git add data/ga_data.json 2>/dev/null || true
+            git add data/fred_citation.json 2>/dev/null || true
             git add data/summaries.json 2>/dev/null || true
             git add content/contributor-analysis/ 2>/dev/null || true
             git add content/publications/citation_chart.webp 2>/dev/null || true
diff --git a/data/fred_citation.json b/data/fred_citation.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f7786e77a65
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data/fred_citation.json
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{
+  "citation": "Wallrich, L.*, & Röseler, L.*, Hartmann, H., Ashcroft-Jones, S., Doetsch, C., Kaiser, L., Schüller, S. M., Aldoh, A., Behbood, H., Elsherif, M. M., Klett, N., Krapp, J., Liu, M., Pavlović, Z., Pennington, C. R., Schütz, A., Seida, C., Siziva, K., Skvortsova, A., Aczel, B., Adelina, N., Agostini, V., Al-Hoorie, A. H., Alarie, S., Albayrak-Aydemir, N., Alzahawi, S., Anvari, F., Arriaga, P., Baker, B. J., Barth, C. L., Bauer, D. J., Becker, R., Beitner, J., Belaus, A., Bhatt, H., Bhogal, J., Boyce, V., Breemer, L., Brick, C., Brohmer, H., Brummernhenrich, B., Budd, E., Butler, A., Casula, A., Chandrashekar, S. P., Chen, S., Chung, K. L., Cockcroft, J. P., Crowe, P., Cummins, J., Daniel, A., Deane, O., Deressa, T. K., Dienlin, T., Diveica, V., Draguns, A., Dumbalska, T., Efendic, E., El Halabi, M., Enright, S., Evans, T. R., Exner, A., Farrar, B. G., Feldman, G., Fillon, A., Floyd, J., Fontana Vieira, F., Frese, J., Förster, N., Gattie, M. C., Gemmecke, C., Genschow, O., Giannouli, V., Gjoneska, B., Gnambs, T., Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, A., Graham, C. J., Greshake Tzovaras, B., Guay, S., Hausenloy, J., Haviva, C., Henderson, E. L., Herderich, A., Hilbert, L., Holgado, D., Hussey, I., Höfer, L., Ilchovska, Z. G., Imada, H., Imwene, P., Izydorczak, K., Jaubert, S., Jeftić, A., Kalandadze, T., Kamermans, K., Karhulahti, V., Kasseckert, L., Kastrinogiannis, A., Klingelhöfer-Jens, M., Kocalar, H. E., Koppel, L., Koppold, A., Korbmacher, M., Kujawa, Z., Kulke, L., Kumar, P., Kuper, N., LaPlume, A. A., Lach, R., Lecuona, O., Lee, J., Leech, G., Leksina, E., Lin, C., Liu, Y., Lohkamp, F., Lou, N. M., Lynott, D., Mackinnon, S., Maier, M., Maiya, S., Makel, M. C., Manrique-Castano, D., Manríquez-Robles, D., Mathes, L., McSharry, D., Meidenbauer, K. L., Meier, M., Micheli, L., Miller, T., Montefinese, M., Moreau, D., Moser, N., Mrkva, K., Murphy, J., Muthu, J., Narkar, N., Nemcova, M., Nádvorník, J., O'Mahoney, R., O'Mahony, A., Oberholzer, Y., Oomen, D., Osano, M., Otstavnov, N., Packheiser, J., Pandey, S., Panton, H., Papenmeier, F., Parsons, S., Paruzel-Czachura, M., Pavlov, Y. G., Pittelkow, M., Plomp, W., Plonski, P. E., Pravednikov, A., Pronizius, E., Pua, A., Pypno-Blajda, K., Rausch, M., Raza, H., Reason, R., Rebholz, T. R., Resulbegoviq, H., Richert, E., Ross, R. M., Russo, S., Röer, J. P., Sandkühler, J. F., Schmidt, K., Sempere, N., Sobolak, R., Sperl, M. F., Stevens, J. R., Stogianni, M., Szekely, R., Tan, A. W., Thürmer, J. L., Tiulpakova, M., Tomczak, J., Tołopiło, A., Tunca, B., Vanpaemel, W., Vaughn, L. A., Verheyen, S., Vineyard, G. H., Weber, L., Weinberg, A., Wingen, S., Wolska, J., Yeung, S. K., Younssi, M., Zaneva, M., Zimmermann, D., Azevedo, F. (2026). FORRT Library of Replication Attempts (FLoRA) [Data set]. OSF. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/9R62X\n\n* These authors contributed equally to this work."
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/layouts/shortcodes/cite-us.html b/layouts/shortcodes/cite-us.html
index 7eb0568470a..6916594547e 100644
--- a/layouts/shortcodes/cite-us.html
+++ b/layouts/shortcodes/cite-us.html
@@ -51,10 +51,13 @@ <h4 class="section-title">If you want to cite FReD, cite:</h4>
 
     <div class="cite-us-item">
         <div class="cite-us-text">
-            Röseler, L., Kaiser, L., Doetsch, C., Klett, N., Seida, C., Schütz, A., Aczel, B., Adelina, N., Agostini,
-            V., Alarie, S., ... , Zaneva, M., & Zhang, Y. (2024). The Replication Database: Documenting the
-            Replicability of Psychological Science. Journal of Open Psychology Data, 12: 8, pp. 1–23.
-            <a href="https://doi.org/10.5334/jopd.101" class="doi-link">DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jopd.101</a>
+            {{ $fredCitation := "" }}
+            {{ if .Site.Data.fred_citation }}
+                {{ $fredCitation = .Site.Data.fred_citation.citation }}
+            {{ else }}
+                {{ $fredCitation = "Röseler, L., Kaiser, L., Doetsch, C., Klett, N., Seida, C., Schütz, A., Aczel, B., Adelina, N., Agostini, V., Alarie, S., ... , Zaneva, M., & Zhang, Y. (2024). The Replication Database: Documenting the Replicability of Psychological Science. Journal of Open Psychology Data, 12: 8, pp. 1–23. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jopd.101" }}
+            {{ end }}
+            {{ $fredCitation | safeHTML }}
         </div>
         <button class="copy-button" onclick="copyText(this, 'fred')">
             <svg class="copy-icon" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" viewBox="0 0 24 24">
@@ -89,10 +92,16 @@ <h4 class="section-title">Citational Justice Toolkit:</h4>
 </div>
 
 <script>
+    {{ $fredCitation := "" }}
+    {{ if .Site.Data.fred_citation }}
+        {{ $fredCitation = .Site.Data.fred_citation.citation }}
+    {{ else }}
+        {{ $fredCitation = "Röseler, L., Kaiser, L., Doetsch, C., Klett, N., Seida, C., Schütz, A., Aczel, B., Adelina, N., Agostini, V., Alarie, S., ... , Zaneva, M., & Zhang, Y. (2024). The Replication Database: Documenting the Replicability of Psychological Science. Journal of Open Psychology Data, 12: 8, pp. 1–23. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jopd.101" }}
+    {{ end }}
     const citations = {
         forrt1: "Azevedo, F., Parsons, S., Micheli, L., Strand, J., Rinke, E., … & FORRT (2019, December 13). Introducing a Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training (FORRT). https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/bnh7p",
         forrt2: "Azevedo, F., Liu, M., Pennington, C. R., Pownall, M., Evans, T. R., Parsons, S., Elsherif, M. M., Micheli, L., Westwood, S., & FORRT. (2021). Towards a culture of open scholarship: The role of pedagogical communities. BMC Research Notes, 15(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-022-05944-1",
-        fred: "Röseler, L., Kaiser, L., Doetsch, C., Klett, N., Seida, C., Schütz, A., Aczel, B., Adelina, N., Agostini, V., Alarie, S., ... , Zaneva, M., & Zhang, Y. (2024). The Replication Database: Documenting the Replicability of Psychological Science. Journal of Open Psychology Data, 12: 8, pp. 1–23. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jopd.101",
+        fred: {{ $fredCitation | jsonify }},
         citational_justice_toolkit: "Sauvé, S. A., Middleton, S. L., Gellersen, H., & Azevedo, F. (2025, July 31). In Pursuit of Citational Justice: A Toolkit for Equitable Scholarship. https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/qjecy_v2"
     };
 
diff --git a/scripts/update_fred_citation.py b/scripts/update_fred_citation.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..702f62255de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/update_fred_citation.py
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""
+Script to fetch and update the FReD citation from the FReD-data repository.
+
+This script downloads the latest citation from:
+https://raw.githubusercontent.com/forrtproject/FReD-data/refs/heads/main/output/citation.txt
+
+And saves it to data/fred_citation.json for use in the cite_us page.
+"""
+
+import sys
+import json
+import logging
+from pathlib import Path
+from urllib import request
+from urllib.error import URLError
+
+# Set up logging
+logging.basicConfig(
+    level=logging.INFO,
+    format='%(levelname)s: %(message)s'
+)
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+# Constants
+CITATION_URL = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/forrtproject/FReD-data/refs/heads/main/output/citation.txt"
+OUTPUT_FILE = "data/fred_citation.json"
+
+def fetch_fred_citation():
+    """
+    Fetch the FReD citation from the GitHub repository.
+    
+    Returns:
+        str: The citation text, or None if fetch failed
+    """
+    try:
+        logger.info(f"Fetching FReD citation from {CITATION_URL}")
+        with request.urlopen(CITATION_URL, timeout=10) as response:
+            citation = response.read().decode('utf-8')
+            logger.info("Successfully fetched FReD citation")
+            return citation
+    except URLError as e:
+        logger.error(f"Failed to fetch citation: {e}")
+        return None
+    except Exception as e:
+        logger.error(f"Unexpected error while fetching citation: {e}")
+        return None
+
+def save_citation(citation, output_path):
+    """
+    Save the citation to a JSON file.
+    
+    Args:
+        citation: The citation text to save
+        output_path: Path where to save the citation
+    
+    Returns:
+        bool: True if successful, False otherwise
+    """
+    try:
+        output_file = Path(output_path)
+        output_file.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+        
+        # Save as JSON with the citation text
+        citation_data = {
+            "citation": citation.strip()
+        }
+        
+        with open(output_file, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
+            json.dump(citation_data, f, ensure_ascii=False, indent=2)
+        
+        logger.info(f"Successfully saved citation to {output_path}")
+        return True
+    except Exception as e:
+        logger.error(f"Failed to save citation: {e}")
+        return False
+
+def main():
+    """Main function to fetch and save the FReD citation."""
+    logger.info("Starting FReD citation update")
+    
+    # Fetch citation
+    citation = fetch_fred_citation()
+    if not citation:
+        logger.error("Failed to fetch citation, exiting")
+        return 1
+    
+    # Save citation
+    if not save_citation(citation, OUTPUT_FILE):
+        logger.error("Failed to save citation, exiting")
+        return 1
+    
+    logger.info("FReD citation update completed successfully")
+    return 0
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sys.exit(main())

From e9a7d0b95a725149cf4143b157ec984622bb41c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "copilot-swe-agent[bot]" <198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2026 15:38:01 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 3/5] Refactor cite-us.html to avoid duplication and update
 fallback citation

Co-authored-by: LukasWallrich <60155545+LukasWallrich@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 layouts/shortcodes/cite-us.html | 20 ++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/layouts/shortcodes/cite-us.html b/layouts/shortcodes/cite-us.html
index 6916594547e..51eb46aab19 100644
--- a/layouts/shortcodes/cite-us.html
+++ b/layouts/shortcodes/cite-us.html
@@ -7,6 +7,14 @@
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ " css/cite_us.css" | relURL }}">
 {{ end }}
 
+{{/* Load FReD citation from data file or use fallback */}}
+{{ $fredCitation := "" }}
+{{ if .Site.Data.fred_citation }}
+    {{ $fredCitation = .Site.Data.fred_citation.citation }}
+{{ else }}
+    {{ $fredCitation = "Wallrich, L.*, & Röseler, L.*, Hartmann, H., Ashcroft-Jones, S., Doetsch, C., Kaiser, L., Schüller, S. M., Aldoh, A., Behbood, H., Elsherif, M. M., Klett, N., Krapp, J., Liu, M., Pavlović, Z., Pennington, C. R., Schütz, A., Seida, C., Siziva, K., Skvortsova, A., Aczel, B., Adelina, N., Agostini, V., Al-Hoorie, A. H., Alarie, S., Albayrak-Aydemir, N., Alzahawi, S., Anvari, F., Arriaga, P., Baker, B. J., Barth, C. L., Bauer, D. J., Becker, R., Beitner, J., Belaus, A., Bhatt, H., Bhogal, J., Boyce, V., Breemer, L., Brick, C., Brohmer, H., Brummernhenrich, B., Budd, E., Butler, A., Casula, A., Chandrashekar, S. P., Chen, S., Chung, K. L., Cockcroft, J. P., Crowe, P., Cummins, J., Daniel, A., Deane, O., Deressa, T. K., Dienlin, T., Diveica, V., Draguns, A., Dumbalska, T., Efendic, E., El Halabi, M., Enright, S., Evans, T. R., Exner, A., Farrar, B. G., Feldman, G., Fillon, A., Floyd, J., Fontana Vieira, F., Frese, J., Förster, N., Gattie, M. C., Gemmecke, C., Genschow, O., Giannouli, V., Gjoneska, B., Gnambs, T., Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, A., Graham, C. J., Greshake Tzovaras, B., Guay, S., Hausenloy, J., Haviva, C., Henderson, E. L., Herderich, A., Hilbert, L., Holgado, D., Hussey, I., Höfer, L., Ilchovska, Z. G., Imada, H., Imwene, P., Izydorczak, K., Jaubert, S., Jeftić, A., Kalandadze, T., Kamermans, K., Karhulahti, V., Kasseckert, L., Kastrinogiannis, A., Klingelhöfer-Jens, M., Kocalar, H. E., Koppel, L., Koppold, A., Korbmacher, M., Kujawa, Z., Kulke, L., Kumar, P., Kuper, N., LaPlume, A. A., Lach, R., Lecuona, O., Lee, J., Leech, G., Leksina, E., Lin, C., Liu, Y., Lohkamp, F., Lou, N. M., Lynott, D., Mackinnon, S., Maier, M., Maiya, S., Makel, M. C., Manrique-Castano, D., Manríquez-Robles, D., Mathes, L., McSharry, D., Meidenbauer, K. L., Meier, M., Micheli, L., Miller, T., Montefinese, M., Moreau, D., Moser, N., Mrkva, K., Murphy, J., Muthu, J., Narkar, N., Nemcova, M., Nádvorník, J., O'Mahoney, R., O'Mahony, A., Oberholzer, Y., Oomen, D., Osano, M., Otstavnov, N., Packheiser, J., Pandey, S., Panton, H., Papenmeier, F., Parsons, S., Paruzel-Czachura, M., Pavlov, Y. G., Pittelkow, M., Plomp, W., Plonski, P. E., Pravednikov, A., Pronizius, E., Pua, A., Pypno-Blajda, K., Rausch, M., Raza, H., Reason, R., Rebholz, T. R., Resulbegoviq, H., Richert, E., Ross, R. M., Russo, S., Röer, J. P., Sandkühler, J. F., Schmidt, K., Sempere, N., Sobolak, R., Sperl, M. F., Stevens, J. R., Stogianni, M., Szekely, R., Tan, A. W., Thürmer, J. L., Tiulpakova, M., Tomczak, J., Tołopiło, A., Tunca, B., Vanpaemel, W., Vaughn, L. A., Verheyen, S., Vineyard, G. H., Weber, L., Weinberg, A., Wingen, S., Wolska, J., Yeung, S. K., Younssi, M., Zaneva, M., Zimmermann, D., Azevedo, F. (2026). FORRT Library of Replication Attempts (FLoRA) [Data set]. OSF. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/9R62X\n\n* These authors contributed equally to this work." }}
+{{ end }}
+
 <div class="cite-us-section">
     <h4 class="section-title">If you want to cite FORRT, in general, cite:</h4>
 
@@ -51,12 +59,6 @@ <h4 class="section-title">If you want to cite FReD, cite:</h4>
 
     <div class="cite-us-item">
         <div class="cite-us-text">
-            {{ $fredCitation := "" }}
-            {{ if .Site.Data.fred_citation }}
-                {{ $fredCitation = .Site.Data.fred_citation.citation }}
-            {{ else }}
-                {{ $fredCitation = "Röseler, L., Kaiser, L., Doetsch, C., Klett, N., Seida, C., Schütz, A., Aczel, B., Adelina, N., Agostini, V., Alarie, S., ... , Zaneva, M., & Zhang, Y. (2024). The Replication Database: Documenting the Replicability of Psychological Science. Journal of Open Psychology Data, 12: 8, pp. 1–23. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jopd.101" }}
-            {{ end }}
             {{ $fredCitation | safeHTML }}
         </div>
         <button class="copy-button" onclick="copyText(this, 'fred')">
@@ -92,12 +94,6 @@ <h4 class="section-title">Citational Justice Toolkit:</h4>
 </div>
 
 <script>
-    {{ $fredCitation := "" }}
-    {{ if .Site.Data.fred_citation }}
-        {{ $fredCitation = .Site.Data.fred_citation.citation }}
-    {{ else }}
-        {{ $fredCitation = "Röseler, L., Kaiser, L., Doetsch, C., Klett, N., Seida, C., Schütz, A., Aczel, B., Adelina, N., Agostini, V., Alarie, S., ... , Zaneva, M., & Zhang, Y. (2024). The Replication Database: Documenting the Replicability of Psychological Science. Journal of Open Psychology Data, 12: 8, pp. 1–23. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jopd.101" }}
-    {{ end }}
     const citations = {
         forrt1: "Azevedo, F., Parsons, S., Micheli, L., Strand, J., Rinke, E., … & FORRT (2019, December 13). Introducing a Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training (FORRT). https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/bnh7p",
         forrt2: "Azevedo, F., Liu, M., Pennington, C. R., Pownall, M., Evans, T. R., Parsons, S., Elsherif, M. M., Micheli, L., Westwood, S., & FORRT. (2021). Towards a culture of open scholarship: The role of pedagogical communities. BMC Research Notes, 15(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-022-05944-1",

From 5c94cf5091af90ef8f2dfd6b7792a8f480932015 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "copilot-swe-agent[bot]" <198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2026 16:20:38 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 4/5] Simplify FReD citation to use plain text instead of JSON

Co-authored-by: LukasWallrich <60155545+LukasWallrich@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 .github/workflows/data-processing.yml | 20 +++++++++++++-------
 data/fred_citation.json               |  3 ---
 layouts/shortcodes/cite-us.html       |  9 ++++++---
 scripts/update_fred_citation.py       | 14 ++++----------
 static/data/fred_citation.txt         |  3 +++
 5 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 data/fred_citation.json
 create mode 100644 static/data/fred_citation.txt

diff --git a/.github/workflows/data-processing.yml b/.github/workflows/data-processing.yml
index 472fa8cdfdb..6312513cbe8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/data-processing.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/data-processing.yml
@@ -259,9 +259,9 @@ jobs:
           echo "🔄 Running FReD citation update..."
           python3 scripts/update_fred_citation.py
           
-          if [ -f "data/fred_citation.json" ]; then
+          if [ -f "static/data/fred_citation.txt" ]; then
             echo "✅ FReD citation updated successfully"
-            echo "Citation length: $(wc -c < data/fred_citation.json) bytes"
+            echo "Citation length: $(wc -c < static/data/fred_citation.txt) bytes"
           else
             echo "❌ FReD citation file was not created"
             exit 1
@@ -346,6 +346,7 @@ jobs:
             content/curated_resources/
             content/glossary/
             data/
+            static/data/
             content/contributor-analysis/
             content/publications/citation_chart.webp
           retention-days: 7
@@ -367,7 +368,12 @@ jobs:
           cp -r content/curated_resources /tmp/generated-resources/
           cp content/contributors/tenzing.md /tmp/generated-resources/ || true
           cp data/ga_data.json /tmp/generated-resources/ga_data.json || true
-          cp data/fred_citation.json /tmp/generated-resources/fred_citation.json || true
+          
+          # Copy FReD citation if it exists
+          if [ -f static/data/fred_citation.txt ]; then
+            mkdir -p /tmp/generated-resources/static/data
+            cp static/data/fred_citation.txt /tmp/generated-resources/static/data/fred_citation.txt
+          fi
           
           # Copy additional generated files
           mkdir -p /tmp/generated-resources/contributor-analysis
@@ -400,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           pushd "$WORKTREE_DIR"
 
           # Ensure target directories exist
-          mkdir -p content/curated_resources content/contributors data content/contributor-analysis content/publications
+          mkdir -p content/curated_resources content/contributors data content/contributor-analysis content/publications static/data
 
           # Remove old generated resource files (but keep _index.md)
           find content/curated_resources -type f ! -name '_index.md' -delete 2>/dev/null || true
@@ -416,8 +422,8 @@ jobs:
           if [ -f /tmp/generated-resources/ga_data.json ]; then
             cp /tmp/generated-resources/ga_data.json data/ga_data.json
           fi
-          if [ -f /tmp/generated-resources/fred_citation.json ]; then
-            cp /tmp/generated-resources/fred_citation.json data/fred_citation.json
+          if [ -f /tmp/generated-resources/static/data/fred_citation.txt ]; then
+            cp /tmp/generated-resources/static/data/fred_citation.txt static/data/fred_citation.txt
           fi
           if [ -f /tmp/generated-resources/summaries.json ]; then
             cp /tmp/generated-resources/summaries.json data/summaries.json
@@ -447,7 +453,7 @@ jobs:
             git add content/curated_resources/ 2>/dev/null || true
             git add content/contributors/tenzing.md 2>/dev/null || true
             git add data/ga_data.json 2>/dev/null || true
-            git add data/fred_citation.json 2>/dev/null || true
+            git add static/data/fred_citation.txt 2>/dev/null || true
             git add data/summaries.json 2>/dev/null || true
             git add content/contributor-analysis/ 2>/dev/null || true
             git add content/publications/citation_chart.webp 2>/dev/null || true
diff --git a/data/fred_citation.json b/data/fred_citation.json
deleted file mode 100644
index f7786e77a65..00000000000
--- a/data/fred_citation.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "citation": "Wallrich, L.*, & Röseler, L.*, Hartmann, H., Ashcroft-Jones, S., Doetsch, C., Kaiser, L., Schüller, S. M., Aldoh, A., Behbood, H., Elsherif, M. M., Klett, N., Krapp, J., Liu, M., Pavlović, Z., Pennington, C. R., Schütz, A., Seida, C., Siziva, K., Skvortsova, A., Aczel, B., Adelina, N., Agostini, V., Al-Hoorie, A. H., Alarie, S., Albayrak-Aydemir, N., Alzahawi, S., Anvari, F., Arriaga, P., Baker, B. J., Barth, C. L., Bauer, D. J., Becker, R., Beitner, J., Belaus, A., Bhatt, H., Bhogal, J., Boyce, V., Breemer, L., Brick, C., Brohmer, H., Brummernhenrich, B., Budd, E., Butler, A., Casula, A., Chandrashekar, S. P., Chen, S., Chung, K. L., Cockcroft, J. P., Crowe, P., Cummins, J., Daniel, A., Deane, O., Deressa, T. K., Dienlin, T., Diveica, V., Draguns, A., Dumbalska, T., Efendic, E., El Halabi, M., Enright, S., Evans, T. R., Exner, A., Farrar, B. G., Feldman, G., Fillon, A., Floyd, J., Fontana Vieira, F., Frese, J., Förster, N., Gattie, M. C., Gemmecke, C., Genschow, O., Giannouli, V., Gjoneska, B., Gnambs, T., Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, A., Graham, C. J., Greshake Tzovaras, B., Guay, S., Hausenloy, J., Haviva, C., Henderson, E. L., Herderich, A., Hilbert, L., Holgado, D., Hussey, I., Höfer, L., Ilchovska, Z. G., Imada, H., Imwene, P., Izydorczak, K., Jaubert, S., Jeftić, A., Kalandadze, T., Kamermans, K., Karhulahti, V., Kasseckert, L., Kastrinogiannis, A., Klingelhöfer-Jens, M., Kocalar, H. E., Koppel, L., Koppold, A., Korbmacher, M., Kujawa, Z., Kulke, L., Kumar, P., Kuper, N., LaPlume, A. A., Lach, R., Lecuona, O., Lee, J., Leech, G., Leksina, E., Lin, C., Liu, Y., Lohkamp, F., Lou, N. M., Lynott, D., Mackinnon, S., Maier, M., Maiya, S., Makel, M. C., Manrique-Castano, D., Manríquez-Robles, D., Mathes, L., McSharry, D., Meidenbauer, K. L., Meier, M., Micheli, L., Miller, T., Montefinese, M., Moreau, D., Moser, N., Mrkva, K., Murphy, J., Muthu, J., Narkar, N., Nemcova, M., Nádvorník, J., O'Mahoney, R., O'Mahony, A., Oberholzer, Y., Oomen, D., Osano, M., Otstavnov, N., Packheiser, J., Pandey, S., Panton, H., Papenmeier, F., Parsons, S., Paruzel-Czachura, M., Pavlov, Y. G., Pittelkow, M., Plomp, W., Plonski, P. E., Pravednikov, A., Pronizius, E., Pua, A., Pypno-Blajda, K., Rausch, M., Raza, H., Reason, R., Rebholz, T. R., Resulbegoviq, H., Richert, E., Ross, R. M., Russo, S., Röer, J. P., Sandkühler, J. F., Schmidt, K., Sempere, N., Sobolak, R., Sperl, M. F., Stevens, J. R., Stogianni, M., Szekely, R., Tan, A. W., Thürmer, J. L., Tiulpakova, M., Tomczak, J., Tołopiło, A., Tunca, B., Vanpaemel, W., Vaughn, L. A., Verheyen, S., Vineyard, G. H., Weber, L., Weinberg, A., Wingen, S., Wolska, J., Yeung, S. K., Younssi, M., Zaneva, M., Zimmermann, D., Azevedo, F. (2026). FORRT Library of Replication Attempts (FLoRA) [Data set]. OSF. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/9R62X\n\n* These authors contributed equally to this work."
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/layouts/shortcodes/cite-us.html b/layouts/shortcodes/cite-us.html
index 51eb46aab19..a12a9db6348 100644
--- a/layouts/shortcodes/cite-us.html
+++ b/layouts/shortcodes/cite-us.html
@@ -7,10 +7,13 @@
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ " css/cite_us.css" | relURL }}">
 {{ end }}
 
-{{/* Load FReD citation from data file or use fallback */}}
+{{/* Load FReD citation from text file or use fallback */}}
 {{ $fredCitation := "" }}
-{{ if .Site.Data.fred_citation }}
-    {{ $fredCitation = .Site.Data.fred_citation.citation }}
+{{ $citationFile := "static/data/fred_citation.txt" }}
+{{ if fileExists $citationFile }}
+    {{ $fredCitation = readFile $citationFile }}
+    {{/* Remove leading/trailing whitespace manually */}}
+    {{ $fredCitation = trim $fredCitation " \n\r\t" }}
 {{ else }}
     {{ $fredCitation = "Wallrich, L.*, & Röseler, L.*, Hartmann, H., Ashcroft-Jones, S., Doetsch, C., Kaiser, L., Schüller, S. M., Aldoh, A., Behbood, H., Elsherif, M. M., Klett, N., Krapp, J., Liu, M., Pavlović, Z., Pennington, C. R., Schütz, A., Seida, C., Siziva, K., Skvortsova, A., Aczel, B., Adelina, N., Agostini, V., Al-Hoorie, A. H., Alarie, S., Albayrak-Aydemir, N., Alzahawi, S., Anvari, F., Arriaga, P., Baker, B. J., Barth, C. L., Bauer, D. J., Becker, R., Beitner, J., Belaus, A., Bhatt, H., Bhogal, J., Boyce, V., Breemer, L., Brick, C., Brohmer, H., Brummernhenrich, B., Budd, E., Butler, A., Casula, A., Chandrashekar, S. P., Chen, S., Chung, K. L., Cockcroft, J. P., Crowe, P., Cummins, J., Daniel, A., Deane, O., Deressa, T. K., Dienlin, T., Diveica, V., Draguns, A., Dumbalska, T., Efendic, E., El Halabi, M., Enright, S., Evans, T. R., Exner, A., Farrar, B. G., Feldman, G., Fillon, A., Floyd, J., Fontana Vieira, F., Frese, J., Förster, N., Gattie, M. C., Gemmecke, C., Genschow, O., Giannouli, V., Gjoneska, B., Gnambs, T., Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, A., Graham, C. J., Greshake Tzovaras, B., Guay, S., Hausenloy, J., Haviva, C., Henderson, E. L., Herderich, A., Hilbert, L., Holgado, D., Hussey, I., Höfer, L., Ilchovska, Z. G., Imada, H., Imwene, P., Izydorczak, K., Jaubert, S., Jeftić, A., Kalandadze, T., Kamermans, K., Karhulahti, V., Kasseckert, L., Kastrinogiannis, A., Klingelhöfer-Jens, M., Kocalar, H. E., Koppel, L., Koppold, A., Korbmacher, M., Kujawa, Z., Kulke, L., Kumar, P., Kuper, N., LaPlume, A. A., Lach, R., Lecuona, O., Lee, J., Leech, G., Leksina, E., Lin, C., Liu, Y., Lohkamp, F., Lou, N. M., Lynott, D., Mackinnon, S., Maier, M., Maiya, S., Makel, M. C., Manrique-Castano, D., Manríquez-Robles, D., Mathes, L., McSharry, D., Meidenbauer, K. L., Meier, M., Micheli, L., Miller, T., Montefinese, M., Moreau, D., Moser, N., Mrkva, K., Murphy, J., Muthu, J., Narkar, N., Nemcova, M., Nádvorník, J., O'Mahoney, R., O'Mahony, A., Oberholzer, Y., Oomen, D., Osano, M., Otstavnov, N., Packheiser, J., Pandey, S., Panton, H., Papenmeier, F., Parsons, S., Paruzel-Czachura, M., Pavlov, Y. G., Pittelkow, M., Plomp, W., Plonski, P. E., Pravednikov, A., Pronizius, E., Pua, A., Pypno-Blajda, K., Rausch, M., Raza, H., Reason, R., Rebholz, T. R., Resulbegoviq, H., Richert, E., Ross, R. M., Russo, S., Röer, J. P., Sandkühler, J. F., Schmidt, K., Sempere, N., Sobolak, R., Sperl, M. F., Stevens, J. R., Stogianni, M., Szekely, R., Tan, A. W., Thürmer, J. L., Tiulpakova, M., Tomczak, J., Tołopiło, A., Tunca, B., Vanpaemel, W., Vaughn, L. A., Verheyen, S., Vineyard, G. H., Weber, L., Weinberg, A., Wingen, S., Wolska, J., Yeung, S. K., Younssi, M., Zaneva, M., Zimmermann, D., Azevedo, F. (2026). FORRT Library of Replication Attempts (FLoRA) [Data set]. OSF. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/9R62X\n\n* These authors contributed equally to this work." }}
 {{ end }}
diff --git a/scripts/update_fred_citation.py b/scripts/update_fred_citation.py
index 702f62255de..3c6a73aeb57 100644
--- a/scripts/update_fred_citation.py
+++ b/scripts/update_fred_citation.py
@@ -5,11 +5,10 @@
 This script downloads the latest citation from:
 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/forrtproject/FReD-data/refs/heads/main/output/citation.txt
 
-And saves it to data/fred_citation.json for use in the cite_us page.
+And saves it to static/data/fred_citation.txt for use in the cite_us page.
 """
 
 import sys
-import json
 import logging
 from pathlib import Path
 from urllib import request
@@ -24,7 +23,7 @@
 
 # Constants
 CITATION_URL = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/forrtproject/FReD-data/refs/heads/main/output/citation.txt"
-OUTPUT_FILE = "data/fred_citation.json"
+OUTPUT_FILE = "static/data/fred_citation.txt"
 
 def fetch_fred_citation():
     """
@@ -48,7 +47,7 @@ def fetch_fred_citation():
 
 def save_citation(citation, output_path):
     """
-    Save the citation to a JSON file.
+    Save the citation to a text file.
     
     Args:
         citation: The citation text to save
@@ -61,13 +60,8 @@ def save_citation(citation, output_path):
         output_file = Path(output_path)
         output_file.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
         
-        # Save as JSON with the citation text
-        citation_data = {
-            "citation": citation.strip()
-        }
-        
         with open(output_file, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
-            json.dump(citation_data, f, ensure_ascii=False, indent=2)
+            f.write(citation)
         
         logger.info(f"Successfully saved citation to {output_path}")
         return True
diff --git a/static/data/fred_citation.txt b/static/data/fred_citation.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..57eda0ec46a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/static/data/fred_citation.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Wallrich, L.*, & Röseler, L.*, Hartmann, H., Ashcroft-Jones, S., Doetsch, C., Kaiser, L., Schüller, S. M., Aldoh, A., Behbood, H., Elsherif, M. M., Klett, N., Krapp, J., Liu, M., Pavlović, Z., Pennington, C. R., Schütz, A., Seida, C., Siziva, K., Skvortsova, A., Aczel, B., Adelina, N., Agostini, V., Al-Hoorie, A. H., Alarie, S., Albayrak-Aydemir, N., Alzahawi, S., Anvari, F., Arriaga, P., Baker, B. J., Barth, C. L., Bauer, D. J., Becker, R., Beitner, J., Belaus, A., Bhatt, H., Bhogal, J., Boyce, V., Breemer, L., Brick, C., Brohmer, H., Brummernhenrich, B., Budd, E., Butler, A., Casula, A., Chandrashekar, S. P., Chen, S., Chung, K. L., Cockcroft, J. P., Crowe, P., Cummins, J., Daniel, A., Deane, O., Deressa, T. K., Dienlin, T., Diveica, V., Draguns, A., Dumbalska, T., Efendic, E., El Halabi, M., Enright, S., Evans, T. R., Exner, A., Farrar, B. G., Feldman, G., Fillon, A., Floyd, J., Fontana Vieira, F., Frese, J., Förster, N., Gattie, M. C., Gemmecke, C., Genschow, O., Giannouli, V., Gjoneska, B., Gnambs, T., Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, A., Graham, C. J., Greshake Tzovaras, B., Guay, S., Hausenloy, J., Haviva, C., Henderson, E. L., Herderich, A., Hilbert, L., Holgado, D., Hussey, I., Höfer, L., Ilchovska, Z. G., Imada, H., Imwene, P., Izydorczak, K., Jaubert, S., Jeftić, A., Kalandadze, T., Kamermans, K., Karhulahti, V., Kasseckert, L., Kastrinogiannis, A., Klingelhöfer-Jens, M., Kocalar, H. E., Koppel, L., Koppold, A., Korbmacher, M., Kujawa, Z., Kulke, L., Kumar, P., Kuper, N., LaPlume, A. A., Lach, R., Lecuona, O., Lee, J., Leech, G., Leksina, E., Lin, C., Liu, Y., Lohkamp, F., Lou, N. M., Lynott, D., Mackinnon, S., Maier, M., Maiya, S., Makel, M. C., Manrique-Castano, D., Manríquez-Robles, D., Mathes, L., McSharry, D., Meidenbauer, K. L., Meier, M., Micheli, L., Miller, T., Montefinese, M., Moreau, D., Moser, N., Mrkva, K., Murphy, J., Muthu, J., Narkar, N., Nemcova, M., Nádvorník, J., O'Mahoney, R., O'Mahony, A., Oberholzer, Y., Oomen, D., Osano, M., Otstavnov, N., Packheiser, J., Pandey, S., Panton, H., Papenmeier, F., Parsons, S., Paruzel-Czachura, M., Pavlov, Y. G., Pittelkow, M., Plomp, W., Plonski, P. E., Pravednikov, A., Pronizius, E., Pua, A., Pypno-Blajda, K., Rausch, M., Raza, H., Reason, R., Rebholz, T. R., Resulbegoviq, H., Richert, E., Ross, R. M., Russo, S., Röer, J. P., Sandkühler, J. F., Schmidt, K., Sempere, N., Sobolak, R., Sperl, M. F., Stevens, J. R., Stogianni, M., Szekely, R., Tan, A. W., Thürmer, J. L., Tiulpakova, M., Tomczak, J., Tołopiło, A., Tunca, B., Vanpaemel, W., Vaughn, L. A., Verheyen, S., Vineyard, G. H., Weber, L., Weinberg, A., Wingen, S., Wolska, J., Yeung, S. K., Younssi, M., Zaneva, M., Zimmermann, D., Azevedo, F. (2026). FORRT Library of Replication Attempts (FLoRA) [Data set]. OSF. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/9R62X
+
+* These authors contributed equally to this work.

From 6c3ab1978740b97d25da3cc023e4a5c34fd5fe00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: richarddushime <mudaherarich@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2026 18:17:27 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 5/5] citation link update to be highlighted

---
 layouts/shortcodes/cite-us.html | 21 +++++++++++----------
 scripts/update_fred_citation.py | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 static/data/fred_citation.txt   |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/layouts/shortcodes/cite-us.html b/layouts/shortcodes/cite-us.html
index a12a9db6348..3b210a0ea8a 100644
--- a/layouts/shortcodes/cite-us.html
+++ b/layouts/shortcodes/cite-us.html
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
     {{/* Remove leading/trailing whitespace manually */}}
     {{ $fredCitation = trim $fredCitation " \n\r\t" }}
 {{ else }}
-    {{ $fredCitation = "Wallrich, L.*, & Röseler, L.*, Hartmann, H., Ashcroft-Jones, S., Doetsch, C., Kaiser, L., Schüller, S. M., Aldoh, A., Behbood, H., Elsherif, M. M., Klett, N., Krapp, J., Liu, M., Pavlović, Z., Pennington, C. R., Schütz, A., Seida, C., Siziva, K., Skvortsova, A., Aczel, B., Adelina, N., Agostini, V., Al-Hoorie, A. H., Alarie, S., Albayrak-Aydemir, N., Alzahawi, S., Anvari, F., Arriaga, P., Baker, B. J., Barth, C. L., Bauer, D. J., Becker, R., Beitner, J., Belaus, A., Bhatt, H., Bhogal, J., Boyce, V., Breemer, L., Brick, C., Brohmer, H., Brummernhenrich, B., Budd, E., Butler, A., Casula, A., Chandrashekar, S. P., Chen, S., Chung, K. L., Cockcroft, J. P., Crowe, P., Cummins, J., Daniel, A., Deane, O., Deressa, T. K., Dienlin, T., Diveica, V., Draguns, A., Dumbalska, T., Efendic, E., El Halabi, M., Enright, S., Evans, T. R., Exner, A., Farrar, B. G., Feldman, G., Fillon, A., Floyd, J., Fontana Vieira, F., Frese, J., Förster, N., Gattie, M. C., Gemmecke, C., Genschow, O., Giannouli, V., Gjoneska, B., Gnambs, T., Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, A., Graham, C. J., Greshake Tzovaras, B., Guay, S., Hausenloy, J., Haviva, C., Henderson, E. L., Herderich, A., Hilbert, L., Holgado, D., Hussey, I., Höfer, L., Ilchovska, Z. G., Imada, H., Imwene, P., Izydorczak, K., Jaubert, S., Jeftić, A., Kalandadze, T., Kamermans, K., Karhulahti, V., Kasseckert, L., Kastrinogiannis, A., Klingelhöfer-Jens, M., Kocalar, H. E., Koppel, L., Koppold, A., Korbmacher, M., Kujawa, Z., Kulke, L., Kumar, P., Kuper, N., LaPlume, A. A., Lach, R., Lecuona, O., Lee, J., Leech, G., Leksina, E., Lin, C., Liu, Y., Lohkamp, F., Lou, N. M., Lynott, D., Mackinnon, S., Maier, M., Maiya, S., Makel, M. C., Manrique-Castano, D., Manríquez-Robles, D., Mathes, L., McSharry, D., Meidenbauer, K. L., Meier, M., Micheli, L., Miller, T., Montefinese, M., Moreau, D., Moser, N., Mrkva, K., Murphy, J., Muthu, J., Narkar, N., Nemcova, M., Nádvorník, J., O'Mahoney, R., O'Mahony, A., Oberholzer, Y., Oomen, D., Osano, M., Otstavnov, N., Packheiser, J., Pandey, S., Panton, H., Papenmeier, F., Parsons, S., Paruzel-Czachura, M., Pavlov, Y. G., Pittelkow, M., Plomp, W., Plonski, P. E., Pravednikov, A., Pronizius, E., Pua, A., Pypno-Blajda, K., Rausch, M., Raza, H., Reason, R., Rebholz, T. R., Resulbegoviq, H., Richert, E., Ross, R. M., Russo, S., Röer, J. P., Sandkühler, J. F., Schmidt, K., Sempere, N., Sobolak, R., Sperl, M. F., Stevens, J. R., Stogianni, M., Szekely, R., Tan, A. W., Thürmer, J. L., Tiulpakova, M., Tomczak, J., Tołopiło, A., Tunca, B., Vanpaemel, W., Vaughn, L. A., Verheyen, S., Vineyard, G. H., Weber, L., Weinberg, A., Wingen, S., Wolska, J., Yeung, S. K., Younssi, M., Zaneva, M., Zimmermann, D., Azevedo, F. (2026). FORRT Library of Replication Attempts (FLoRA) [Data set]. OSF. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/9R62X\n\n* These authors contributed equally to this work." }}
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@@ -57,14 +57,18 @@ <h4 class="section-title">If you want to cite FORRT, in general, cite:</h4>
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+
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-    <h4 class="section-title">If you want to cite FReD, cite:</h4>
+    <h4 class="section-title">Citational Justice Toolkit:</h4>
 
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         <div class="cite-us-text">
-            {{ $fredCitation | safeHTML }}
+            Sauvé, S. A., Middleton, S. L., Gellersen, H., & Azevedo, F. (2025, July 31). In Pursuit of Citational
+            Justice: A Toolkit for Equitable Scholarship. https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/qjecy_v2
+            <a href="https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/qjecy_v2" class="doi-link">DOI:
+                https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/qjecy_v2</a>
         </div>
-        <button class="copy-button" onclick="copyText(this, 'fred')">
+        <button class="copy-button" onclick="copyText(this, 'citational_justice_toolkit')">
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 </div>
 
 <div class="cite-us-section">
-    <h4 class="section-title">Citational Justice Toolkit:</h4>
+    <h4 class="section-title">If you want to cite FReD, cite:</h4>
 
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         <div class="cite-us-text">
-            Sauvé, S. A., Middleton, S. L., Gellersen, H., & Azevedo, F. (2025, July 31). In Pursuit of Citational
-            Justice: A Toolkit for Equitable Scholarship. https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/qjecy_v2
-            <a href="https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/qjecy_v2" class="doi-link">DOI:
-                https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/qjecy_v2</a>
+            {{ $fredCitation | safeHTML }}
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+        <button class="copy-button" onclick="copyText(this, 'fred')">
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diff --git a/scripts/update_fred_citation.py b/scripts/update_fred_citation.py
index 3c6a73aeb57..b98a431b3c3 100644
--- a/scripts/update_fred_citation.py
+++ b/scripts/update_fred_citation.py
@@ -59,10 +59,31 @@ def save_citation(citation, output_path):
     try:
         output_file = Path(output_path)
         output_file.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
-        
+
+        # Post-process citation to match required format
+        # Replace DOI URL with HTML link and append note if not present
+        import re
+        # Find DOI URL (assume starts with https://doi.org/)
+        citation = citation.strip()
+        # Remove any trailing note
+        citation_main = citation
+        note = "* These authors contributed equally to this work."
+        if "* These authors contributed equally to this work." in citation:
+            citation_main = citation.split("* These authors contributed equally to this work.")[0].strip()
+
+        # Replace DOI URL with HTML link
+        doi_pattern = r'(https://doi\.org/[\w\./-]+)'
+        def repl(match):
+            url = match.group(1)
+            return f'<a href="{url}">{url}</a>'
+        citation_main = re.sub(doi_pattern, repl, citation_main)
+
+        # Compose final citation
+        citation_final = citation_main + "\n\n" + note + "\n"
+
         with open(output_file, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
-            f.write(citation)
-        
+            f.write(citation_final)
+
         logger.info(f"Successfully saved citation to {output_path}")
         return True
     except Exception as e:
diff --git a/static/data/fred_citation.txt b/static/data/fred_citation.txt
index 57eda0ec46a..efbecc4ebd8 100644
--- a/static/data/fred_citation.txt
+++ b/static/data/fred_citation.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
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 * These authors contributed equally to this work.