diff --git a/packages/citation-js-utils/src/index.ts b/packages/citation-js-utils/src/index.ts
index 40448b217..cd2d4f06c 100644
--- a/packages/citation-js-utils/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/citation-js-utils/src/index.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import type { OutputOptions } from '@citation-js/core';
+import type { OutputOptions, CSL } from '@citation-js/core';
 import { Cite } from '@citation-js/core';
 import sanitizeHtml from 'sanitize-html';
 
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ const DOI_IN_TEXT = /(10.\d{4,9}\/[-._;()/:A-Z0-9]*[A-Z0-9])/i;
 export type CitationJson = {
   type?: 'article-journal' | string;
   id: string;
-  author?: { given: string; family: string }[];
+  author?: { given: string; family: string, literal?: string }[];
   issued?: { 'date-parts'?: number[][]; literal?: string };
   publisher?: string;
   title?: string;
@@ -47,14 +47,6 @@ function cleanRef(citation: string) {
   return cleanHtml.replace(/^1\./g, '').replace(/&/g, '&').trim();
 }
 
-// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-unused-vars
-const defaultOpts: OutputOptions = {
-  format: 'string',
-  type: 'json',
-  style: 'ris',
-  lang: 'en-US',
-};
-
 export enum CitationJSStyles {
   'apa' = 'citation-apa',
   'vancouver' = 'citation-vancouver',
@@ -66,8 +58,7 @@ export enum InlineCite {
   't' = 't',
 }
 
-const defaultString: OutputOptions = {
-  format: 'string',
+const defaultOptions: Record<string, string> = {
   lang: 'en-US',
   type: 'html',
   style: CitationJSStyles.apa,
@@ -112,7 +103,7 @@ export function getInlineCitation(data: CitationJson, kind: InlineCite, opts?: I
   }
   if (authors.length > 2) {
     return [
-      { type: 'text', value: `${prefix}${authors[0].family} ` },
+      { type: 'text', value: `${prefix}${authors[0].family ?? authors[0].literal} ` },
       { type: 'emphasis', children: [{ type: 'text', value: 'et al.' }] },
       { type: 'text', value: `${yearPart}` },
     ];
@@ -171,12 +162,19 @@ export function firstNonDoiUrl(str?: string, doi?: string) {
   return matches.map((match) => match[0]).find((match) => !doi || !match.includes(doi));
 }
 
-export async function getCitations(bibtex: string): Promise<CitationRenderer> {
-  const cite = new Cite();
-  const p = await Cite.async(bibtex);
+function parseCitationStyle(style: string): string {
+  const [styleType, styleFormat] = style.split('-');
+  if (styleType !== 'citation') {
+    throw new Error(`unexpected citation style: ${style}`);
+  }
+  return styleFormat;
+}
 
+export async function getCitationRenderers(data: any): Promise<CitationRenderer> {
+  const cite = new Cite();
+  const p = await Cite.async(data);
   return Object.fromEntries(
-    p.data.map((c: any): [string, CitationRenderer[0]] => {
+    p.data.map((c: CSL): [string, CitationRenderer[0]] => {
       const matchDoi = c.URL?.match(DOI_IN_TEXT) ?? c.note?.match(DOI_IN_TEXT);
       if (!c.DOI && matchDoi) {
         c.DOI = matchDoi[0];
@@ -189,7 +187,13 @@ export async function getCitations(bibtex: string): Promise<CitationRenderer> {
           },
           render(style?: CitationJSStyles) {
             return replaceUrlsWithAnchorElement(
-              cleanRef(cite.set(c).get({ ...defaultString, style: style ?? CitationJSStyles.apa })),
+              cleanRef(
+                cite.set(c).format('bibliography', {
+                  template: parseCitationStyle(style ?? (CitationJSStyles.apa as string)),
+                  format: 'html',
+                  lang: 'en-US',
+                }) as string,
+              ),
               c.DOI,
             );
           },
@@ -197,7 +201,18 @@ export async function getCitations(bibtex: string): Promise<CitationRenderer> {
             return c.DOI || undefined;
           },
           getURL(): string | undefined {
-            return firstNonDoiUrl(cleanRef(cite.set(c).get(defaultString)), c.DOI) ?? doiUrl(c.DOI);
+            return (
+              firstNonDoiUrl(
+                cleanRef(
+                  cite.set(c).format('bibliography', {
+                    template: parseCitationStyle(CitationJSStyles.apa as string),
+                    format: 'html',
+                    lang: 'en-US',
+                  }) as string,
+                ),
+                c.DOI,
+              ) ?? doiUrl(c.DOI)
+            );
           },
           cite: c,
         },
diff --git a/packages/citation-js-utils/types/citation-js/index.d.ts b/packages/citation-js-utils/types/citation-js/index.d.ts
index b7233b313..f78ec82f6 100644
--- a/packages/citation-js-utils/types/citation-js/index.d.ts
+++ b/packages/citation-js-utils/types/citation-js/index.d.ts
@@ -38,13 +38,13 @@ declare module '@citation-js/core' {
   } & Record<string, any>;
 
   export class Cite {
-    constructor(input?: string | CSL);
+    constructor(input?: any);
 
-    static async(data: string | Cite): Promise<Cite>;
+    static async(data: any): Promise<Cite>;
 
-    set(data: string | Cite): this;
+    set(data: any): this;
 
-    get: (opts: OutputOptions) => string;
+    format: (format: string, options: Any) => string | object[];
 
     data: CSL[];
   }
diff --git a/packages/myst-cli/src/process/citations.ts b/packages/myst-cli/src/process/citations.ts
index 824a5e009..3658b82f1 100644
--- a/packages/myst-cli/src/process/citations.ts
+++ b/packages/myst-cli/src/process/citations.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import fs from 'node:fs';
 import type { CitationRenderer } from 'citation-js-utils';
-import { getCitations } from 'citation-js-utils';
+import { getCitationRenderers } from 'citation-js-utils';
 import { tic, isUrl } from 'myst-cli-utils';
 import { RuleId, plural } from 'myst-common';
 import type { ISession, ISessionWithCache } from '../session/types.js';
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import { castSession } from '../session/cache.js';
 import { selectors } from '../store/index.js';
 import { addWarningForFile } from '../utils/addWarningForFile.js';
 
-export async function loadCitations(session: ISession, path: string): Promise<CitationRenderer> {
+export async function loadBibTeXCitationRenderers(session: ISession, path: string): Promise<CitationRenderer> {
   const toc = tic();
   let data: string;
   if (isUrl(path)) {
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ export async function loadCitations(session: ISession, path: string): Promise<Ci
     session.log.debug(`Loading citations at "${path}"`);
     data = fs.readFileSync(path).toString();
   }
-  const renderer = await getCitations(data);
+  const renderer = await getCitationRenderers(data);
   session.log.debug(toc(`Read ${plural('%s citations(s)', renderer)} from ${path} in %s.`));
   return renderer;
 }
diff --git a/packages/myst-cli/src/process/file.ts b/packages/myst-cli/src/process/file.ts
index b8dcc6650..1e4770d01 100644
--- a/packages/myst-cli/src/process/file.ts
+++ b/packages/myst-cli/src/process/file.ts
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ import { warnings, watch } from '../store/reducers.js';
 import type { PreRendererData, RendererData } from '../transforms/types.js';
 import { logMessagesFromVFile } from '../utils/logging.js';
 import { addWarningForFile } from '../utils/addWarningForFile.js';
-import { loadCitations } from './citations.js';
+import { loadBibTeXCitationRenderers } from './citations.js';
 import { parseMyst } from './myst.js';
 import { processNotebook } from './notebook.js';
 import { includeDirectiveTransform } from 'myst-transforms';
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ export async function loadFile(
         break;
       }
       case '.bib': {
-        const renderer = await loadCitations(session, file);
+        const renderer = await loadBibTeXCitationRenderers(session, file);
         cache.$citationRenderers[file] = renderer;
         break;
       }
diff --git a/packages/myst-cli/src/transforms/dois.ts b/packages/myst-cli/src/transforms/dois.ts
index d58c1fe40..297a440f6 100644
--- a/packages/myst-cli/src/transforms/dois.ts
+++ b/packages/myst-cli/src/transforms/dois.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import fs from 'node:fs';
 import { join } from 'node:path';
-import type { CitationRenderer } from 'citation-js-utils';
-import { getCitations } from 'citation-js-utils';
+import type { CitationRenderer, CitationJson } from 'citation-js-utils';
+import { getCitationRenderers } from 'citation-js-utils';
 import { doi } from 'doi-utils';
 import type { Link } from 'myst-spec';
 import type { GenericNode, GenericParent } from 'myst-common';
@@ -27,27 +27,43 @@ function doiResolvesCacheFile(session: ISession, normalizedDoi: string) {
   return join(cacheFolder, filename);
 }
 
+const DEFAULT_DOI_CONTENT = 'application/vnd.citationstyles.csl+json';
+
+function patchCrossCiteCSL(data: any) {
+  const patchAuthor = (author: any) => {
+    if (author.name === undefined) {
+      return author;
+    }
+    const { name, ...rest } = author;
+    return { literal: name, ...rest };
+  };
+  const { author, ...rest } = data;
+
+  if (author === undefined) {
+    return data;
+  }
+  return { author: author.map(patchAuthor), ...rest };
+}
+
 /**
  * Fetch bibtex entry for doi from doi.org using application/x-bibtex accept header
  */
-export async function getDoiOrgBibtex(
-  session: ISession,
-  doiString: string,
-): Promise<string | null> {
+export async function getDoiOrgJSON(session: ISession, doiString: string): Promise<CitationJson | null> {
   const normalizedDoi = doi.normalize(doiString);
   const url = doi.buildUrl(normalizedDoi);
   if (!doi.validate(doiString) || !normalizedDoi || !url) return null;
   const cachePath = doiBibtexCacheFile(session, normalizedDoi);
+
   if (fs.existsSync(cachePath)) {
-    const bibtex = fs.readFileSync(cachePath).toString();
-    session.log.debug(`Loaded cached reference bibtex for doi:${normalizedDoi}`);
-    return bibtex;
+    const cached = fs.readFileSync(cachePath).toString();
+    session.log.debug(`Loaded cached reference CSL JSON for doi:${normalizedDoi}`);
+    return JSON.parse(cached);
   }
   const toc = tic();
-  session.log.debug('Fetching DOI bibtex from doi.org');
+  session.log.debug('Fetching DOI CSL JSON from doi.org');
   const response = await session
     .fetch(url, {
-      headers: [['Accept', 'application/x-bibtex']],
+      headers: [['Accept', DEFAULT_DOI_CONTENT]],
     })
     .catch(() => {
       session.log.debug(`Request to ${url} failed.`);
@@ -57,11 +73,15 @@ export async function getDoiOrgBibtex(
     session.log.debug(`doi.org fetch failed for ${doiString}`);
     return null;
   }
-  const bibtex = await response.text();
-  session.log.debug(toc(`Fetched reference bibtex for doi:${normalizedDoi} in %s`));
-  session.log.debug(`Saving doi bibtex to cache ${cachePath}`);
-  fs.writeFileSync(cachePath, bibtex);
-  return bibtex;
+  let data = (await response.json()) as object;
+  
+  // Some CSL publishers don't seem to conform
+  data = patchCrossCiteCSL(data);
+
+  session.log.debug(toc(`Fetched reference CSL JSON for doi:${normalizedDoi} in %s`));
+  session.log.debug(`Saving DOI CSL JSON to cache ${cachePath}`);
+  fs.writeFileSync(cachePath, JSON.stringify(data));
+  return data as unknown as CitationJson;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -99,14 +119,14 @@ export async function getCitation(
   node: GenericNode,
 ): Promise<SingleCitationRenderer | null> {
   if (!doi.validate(doiString)) return null;
-  const bibtex = await getDoiOrgBibtex(session, doiString);
-  if (!bibtex) {
+  const data = await getDoiOrgJSON(session, doiString);
+  if (!data) {
     const resolves = await doiOrgResolves(session, doiString);
     const normalizedDoi = doi.normalize(doiString);
     let message: string;
     let note: string | undefined;
     if (resolves) {
-      message = `No bibtex available from doi.org for doi:${normalizedDoi}`;
+      message = `No CSL JSON available from doi.org for doi:${normalizedDoi}`;
       note = `To resolve this error, visit ${doi.buildUrl(normalizedDoi)} and add citation info to .bib file`;
     } else {
       message = `Could not find DOI from link: ${doiString} as ${normalizedDoi}`;
@@ -118,7 +138,7 @@ export async function getCitation(
     });
     return null;
   }
-  const renderer = await getCitations(bibtex);
+  const renderer = await getCitationRenderers(data);
   const id = Object.keys(renderer)[0];
   const render = renderer[id];
   return { id, render };