Quarto for Academics
Citable Articles
In Quarto, you can not only cite other works with the @bibkey notation, e.g Einstein (1905) or Turing (1936), but you can also create citeable articles.
For example, you can create a citation pattern for others to copy by inserting the citation keyword in your YAML Frontmatter:
title: Quarto for Academics
description: Some tips for scientists creating a personal website
date: "2026"
author:
- name: Quarto Pressmark
url: https://mdwm.org/quarto-pressmark
citation:
url: https://mdwm.org/quarto-pressmark/academicsIn the bottom of your webpage, Quarto will now automatically create a “Please cite as” and recommended BibTex Section (scroll down to Citation to take a look).
If you want to dig deeper into the different options for the citation, see the Quarto Docs).
Google Scholar
And if you wan’t your work to be indexable by Google Scholar, just add a google-scholar: true line to your YAML. A side benefit: Tools like Zotero Browser Connectors will automatically recognize it and offer to save it for visitors to your website.
JSON-LD
This is something I found in Hendrik Erz’s excellent guide to Academic Websites:
The thing is, you can link several different Twitter accounts on your website, and while us humans can easily see which one is your personal one, a machine cannot. JSON-LD really makes it obvious to web crawlers which links between different parts of the internet exist. With JSON-LD you can show which social media profiles are yours, which organization you are a part of, and which side projects are part of you.
To create your own JSON-LD, I recommend this easy generator. After you have your Schema, just paste it into your _quarto.yml like this:
format:
html:
theme: [pressmark.scss]
include-in-header:
text: |
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "https://schema.org/",
"@type": "Person",
// ETC
</script>Et voila, your website should now be much easier for machines to understand.
References
Citation
@online{pressmark2026,
author = {Pressmark, Quarto},
title = {Quarto for {Academics}},
date = {2026-04-01},
url = {https://mdwm.org/quarto-pressmark/academics},
langid = {en}
}