This is meant to replace `org-cite-sidecar' (https://melpa.org/#/org-cite-sidecar), and will integrate with `org-cite-overlay'. Similar to the former, it will show formatted org-cite citations in the sidecar, however, if `org-cite-overlay' is in use, the processor it fills will be used (reducing the amount of computation performed). Because it is compatible with buffers not using `org-cite-overlay-mode', it is also necessary to configure universal-sidecar-citeproc, as shown: (setq universal-sidecar-citeproc-locales "~/.emacs.d/csl-data/locales/" ;; set to your directories for locale and style data universal-sidecar-citeproc-styles "~/.emacs.d/csl-data/styles/") (add-to-list 'universal-sidecar-sections 'org-cite-overlay-sidecar) Additionally, there are two arguments to the section which are not exposed as customization variables: - `:style' allows you to select a prefered CSL style within `universal-sidecar-citeproc-styles'. Default is `universal-sidecar-citeproc-default-style'. - `:header' allows you to change the header of the section from the default "References".