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AI citation schema generator

To make a page attributable to an answer engine, set the properties that carry authorship, recency and provenance: an author with sameAs links, dateModified, the sources you cite, and a speakable selector for the passage worth quoting. Build them below, with the reason each one matters and an honest note on what markup cannot do.

Free. Building the markup needs no account; the gap report against your live page needs a free sign-in.

What kind of page is this?The citation properties are the same for all three. Only the type changes.

HeadlineThe page's own title, matching the visible h1.Canonical URLThe absolute URL this markup belongs to.Author nameA real person, as the byline shows them on the page.Author profile URLsOne absolute URL per line: LinkedIn, X, a personal site, an ORCID. This is what turns a name into a checkable identity.PublisherWho stands behind the page, if that differs from who wrote it.Date publishedISO format, so 2026-09-07.Date modifiedOnly when the content genuinely changed. Bumping it on every deploy is a signal people learn to discount.Subject entitiesOne per line. What the page is actually about, as named things rather than keywords.Mentioned entitiesOne per line. Products, companies or standards the page discusses without being about them.Sources citedOne per line. A URL is kept as a link; anything else becomes a named work, because real sources are often papers with no canonical URL.Original source or data URLThe raw material behind the page: your dataset, recording or measurement. Almost nothing on the open web sets this.Speakable CSS selectorsOne per line, so .speakable or h1. Names the passage you want lifted, rather than leaving the choice to markup order.

Citation signals set

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emptyNamed authorauthormust be visible on the page
An answer engine attributing a claim needs someone to attribute it to. A page with no named author is a page with nothing to cite but a domain, and domains are interchangeable in a way people are not.
emptyAuthor profile linksauthor.sameAs
A name on its own asserts an identity nothing can verify. sameAs links connect that name to profiles a consumer has already read elsewhere, which is what turns a byline into a checkable claim. This is the single most under-used property on the list.
emptyDate modifieddateModified
Recency is a real input for anything time-sensitive, and a page that cannot say when it last changed is treated as undated. Only set it when the content genuinely changed; bumping it on every deploy is a signal people learn to discount.
emptySources citedcitationmust be visible on the page
A page that names its sources is doing the thing an answer engine is trying to do, and gives a consumer somewhere to verify the claim. Pages that cite nothing read as assertion rather than evidence.
emptySubject entitiesaboutmust be visible on the page
Says what the page is about as entities rather than leaving it to be inferred from keyword frequency. It is how a consumer decides your page is the one that answers a question about that subject.
emptyOriginal source or dataisBasedOn
Points at the raw material behind the page: your dataset, your recording, your measurement. It is the property that distinguishes original work from a summary of someone else's, and almost nothing on the open web sets it.
emptySpeakable selectorsspeakablemust be visible on the page
Names the part of the page that answers the question, so a consumer lifting a passage takes the one you chose rather than whatever sits highest in the markup.
emptyPublisherpublisher
Separates who wrote it from who stands behind it. On a company blog those differ, and a consumer weighing a claim cares about both.

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Article"
}

Every property here must match what is visible on the page. Markup describing an author, a source or a passage that a reader cannot actually see is a guidelines violation, not a shortcut. This count is what you have made citable, not a prediction that you will be cited.

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See the citation gap report

The citation gap report is computed from your own page and costs nothing to run. We ask for a free account because the expensive tools on this shelf stay free, and because it lets us tell you when your result changes. No card, no trial clock.

Which of the eight citation signals the markup already on your page sets, and which it leaves empty, so you are filling gaps rather than duplicating.
Whether the author name you just claimed actually appears in the visible text of the page. Markup naming an author a reader cannot see is a guidelines violation, not an optimisation.
Every JSON-LD block on the page with the properties it declares, including blocks that fail to parse and so are being read by nothing.

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The eight signals, and why each one matters

None of these produce a rich result, which is why they sit empty on almost every page that otherwise has good structured data. The four marked below make a claim about your visible content: if the page does not show it, the markup is a guidelines violation rather than an optimisation.

Signal	Property	Must be visible	Why it matters
Named author	author	Yes	An answer engine attributing a claim needs someone to attribute it to. A page with no named author is a page with nothing to cite but a domain, and domains are interchangeable in a way people are not.
Author profile links	author.sameAs	No	A name on its own asserts an identity nothing can verify. sameAs links connect that name to profiles a consumer has already read elsewhere, which is what turns a byline into a checkable claim. This is the single most under-used property on the list.
Date modified	dateModified	No	Recency is a real input for anything time-sensitive, and a page that cannot say when it last changed is treated as undated. Only set it when the content genuinely changed; bumping it on every deploy is a signal people learn to discount.
Sources cited	citation	Yes	A page that names its sources is doing the thing an answer engine is trying to do, and gives a consumer somewhere to verify the claim. Pages that cite nothing read as assertion rather than evidence.
Subject entities	about	Yes	Says what the page is about as entities rather than leaving it to be inferred from keyword frequency. It is how a consumer decides your page is the one that answers a question about that subject.
Original source or data	isBasedOn	No	Points at the raw material behind the page: your dataset, your recording, your measurement. It is the property that distinguishes original work from a summary of someone else's, and almost nothing on the open web sets it.
Speakable selectors	speakable	Yes	Names the part of the page that answers the question, so a consumer lifting a passage takes the one you chose rather than whatever sits highest in the markup.
Publisher	publisher	No	Separates who wrote it from who stands behind it. On a company blog those differ, and a consumer weighing a claim cares about both.

How this differs from a rich-result schema generator

Both are worth having, and they are not the same job. Where a normal generator is equal or better, the table says so.

Capability	This tool	Rich-result generator
Types aimed at a search feature	Three only	Better: many more
Star ratings, prices, breadcrumbs	No	Better: yes
Author with sameAs profile links	Yes	Name only, if at all
citation and isBasedOn provenance	Yes	Rarely offered
about and mentions entity arrays	Yes	Rarely offered
speakable selectors	Yes	No
A reason given for each property	Yes	Bare labels
Flags properties needing visible support	Yes	No
Checks your author name against the live page	Yes, with a free account	No

If you want the rich-result types, the schema markup generator builds ten of them with the same field-by-field explanations. Most pages want both: one block describing what the page is, one carrying who stands behind it.

What is in the citation gap report

Building the markup is the easy half. The half that goes wrong is publishing a claim your page does not support, and nothing on the page will ever tell you.

Which of the eight signals your existing markup already sets, so you edit rather than add a second block saying something different.
Whether the author name you just claimed actually appears in the visible text of the page. This is the check that separates supported markup from a guidelines violation, and it is the one thing here that only a server can answer, because only the server has your page.
Blocks on the page that fail to parse as JSON, which nothing is reading and no page will report.

Once the markup is honest, the remaining question is whether it changed anything. The AI visibility checker asks a real buyer question and shows whether you are named, the AI crawlability checker confirms the engines are allowed to read the page at all, and the llms.txt generator states which pages you would rather they cited.

How to mark up a page for AI citation

Step 1

Fill in the attribution first

Author name plus profile URLs, then publisher. Attribution is what an engine needs before it can quote you as anything other than a domain, and it is the part most pages skip.

Step 2

Name your sources honestly

A URL stays a link and anything else becomes a named work. Do not invent a link for a book or a paper that has none, and do not list sources the page does not actually cite.

Step 3

Point speakable at the passage you would want quoted

A CSS selector for the part of the page that answers the question. Without it the choice is left to markup order, which is rarely the answer you would pick.

Step 4

Check it against the live page before you publish

The gap report reads the markup already on your URL and, more importantly, checks whether the author name you claimed appears in the visible text. Then measure whether the engines actually cite you.

When you outgrow this tool

Markup makes a page citable. Answer Radar measures whether the engines actually cite it, which competitor they cite instead, and whether a fix you shipped changed the answer.

The generator is free and complete on its own. Linkeddit is what you use when markup stops being the question and you need to know whether the engines actually cite you, who they name instead, and whether a fix changed the answer.

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FAQ

AI Citation Schema Generator questions

What these properties do, what markup cannot do for you, and the one rule that turns an optimisation into a violation.

Does schema markup get you cited by AI?

No, and any tool implying otherwise is selling you something. Markup makes a page readable and attributable, which is a precondition for being cited accurately, not a lever that causes citation. What gets a page cited is being the best available answer from a source an engine has reason to trust. These properties make sure that when it does happen, the engine attributes it to the right person and can verify who that person is.

What is the difference between this and a normal schema generator?

A normal generator builds the type that describes your page, aiming at a rich result. This builds the properties that decide whether your page is quotable and who gets the credit: author with sameAs, dateModified, citation, about, isBasedOn, speakable and publisher. Most of those produce no rich result at all, which is precisely why they sit empty on almost every page on the web.

What does the sameAs property actually do?

It links an entity on your page to the same entity elsewhere: your author's LinkedIn, their ORCID, your company's G2 listing. On its own a name asserts an identity that nothing can check. With sameAs, a consumer can connect that name to profiles it has already read and treat the attribution as verifiable. It is the most under-used property in this set and costs nothing but a few URLs.

Can I add schema for content that is not on the page?

No. Structured data describing content a reader cannot see is a guidelines violation, not a shortcut, and it is the specific failure this tool is built to prevent. Four of the eight signals carry that risk, and they are flagged in the tool. The gap report goes further and checks whether the author name you claimed actually appears in the visible text of your page.

Should I set dateModified on every page?

Set it when the content genuinely changed, and not otherwise. Recency is a real input for anything time-sensitive, but bumping the date on every deploy is a signal that gets discounted once anyone notices the content did not change. An honest publication date with no modification date is better than a modification date that means nothing.

What is in the layer that needs an account?

The gap report: which of the eight citation signals your page's existing markup already sets, which it leaves empty, and whether the author name you just claimed appears in the visible text of the page. That last check is the one no other generator does, and it is the difference between markup that is supported by the page and markup that quietly violates the guidelines. It costs nothing to run and no model is involved.

Which of these properties matter most if I only do one?

Author with sameAs. It is two fields, it is the strongest attribution signal available, and it is absent from the overwhelming majority of pages that otherwise have good structured data. After that, citation, because a page that names its sources is doing the thing an answer engine is trying to do.

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