# Export to .doc - incl. citations **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature requests\ **Created:** [October 1, 2021, 5:07pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/export-to-doc-incl-citations/25030 "2021-10-01T17:07:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![ryanjamurphy](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/ryanjamurphy/32/334_2.png) [@ryanjamurphy](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/ryanjamurphy)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2021, 1:38pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/export-to-doc-incl-citations/25030/2 "2021-10-02T13:38:10Z")
Can you explain more about how this would work? How would Obsidian know what the citations are, what format to put references in, etc.? There’ve also been a lot of other discussions about handling citations on here. e.g.: > [@Citations and bibliography](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/citations-and-bibliography/11495): > > It would be useful if Obsidian could implement a basic mechanism for citing references, which can then be extended with plugins. I think that it should be a core feature / plugin because I fear that plugins will not implement citations consistently. I also want to stress that what I will describe can useful well beyond academia and does not rely on any external software or format. Use case or problem I am using a lot of citations in two different contexts. First, to take notes on what I am rea… > [@New plugin: Citations (with Zotero)](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/new-plugin-citations-with-zotero/9793): > > Hi all, I’ve just released a very minimal [Citations plugin](https://github.com/hans/obsidian-citation-plugin/tree/0.1.3) for Obsidian. You can find it in the third-party plugins browser within the app. Right now I’ve just implemented the feature most important to me, which is quick within-Obsidian search of a reference database. You can automatically create literature notes for a particular reference according to your own templates. I’ve developed this for use with Zotero to start, but it could work right now with any reference manager that ca… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/export-to-doc-incl-citations/25030)._