Quartz has a built-in Citation plugin that is very useful for managing a uniform format for bibliographic citations across notes/articles. It appeared very straight forward, so I created a bibliography.bib and a single database entry in the BibTeX format. I spent quite some time trying to troubleshoot when the citations did not work as expected. Then I realized that the quartz.config.ts file did not have an entry for the plugin by default. I added,
Plugin.Citations()
and put the bibliography.bib file at the root of my content folder. Everything worked.
Converting references to BibTeX format
These days, almost all journals and meta index sites have Cite tool. However, not all of them provide option to get the citation in BibTeX format. Luckily Zotero has a very useful online tool Zoterobib that converts URLs to BibTeX (and a whole lot of other citation formats.)