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title: How to Share, Cite or Embed your items
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url: "https://info.figshare.com/user-guide/how-to-share-cite-or-embed-your-items/"
updated: "2026-07-31"
category: Searching, sharing and reusing outputs
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# How to Share, Cite or Embed your items

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- How to Share, Cite or Embed your items

#### Public items

Underneath your public item’s preview area and below the title of the item you’ll see several options to reference the work.  

#### Cite

All research made publicly available on Figshare is allocated a persistent identifier at the point of publication ([DataCite](https://www.datacite.org/) DOI for figshare.com and a DOI or Handle at institutions).

You should include this identifier whenever you are referring to research outputs on Figshare as this ensures that the link to the item persists. To cite any content on Figshare, click the red ‘Cite’ button and you can then copy and paste or drag and drop the text.

![Image of the 'Cite' options from the public page for an item. ](https://info.figshare.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/sustainable_coffee_image_cite_option.png)

You can also export the citation to RefWorks, BibTeX, Endnote, DataCite, NLM, DC and RefMan. These are available in the side pane (to the lower right) of every page.

If you are not ready to make your data public, you can reserve a DOI – on the metadata form for object in question, select **Reserve Digital Object Identifier**.  At this point you will be offered a DOI – it will only be active and citable when you have added as much metadata as possible to make the file useful to others and eventually public.

#### Share

You can share via Bluesky, Email, Facebook, LinkedIn, and X, all from the public page of your item. Click the ‘Share’ link under the file preview area on any public page to view the share options.

#### Embed

Once published, you can embed a special Figshare viewer in your personal or institutional website. This is available for any public item. Click the ‘Embed’ link under the file preview area. Copy the HTML and add it to your site.

![Image showing the location of the 'Embed' option on a public item page. ](https://info.figshare.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/embed_option.png)
Find the embed code under the file preview area.

For example, the code for [this item](https://doi.org/10.25448/lbu.26968777) is inserted into this site as ‘custom HTML’ and displays like this:

[https://widgets.figshare.com/articles/26968777/embed?show_title=1](https://widgets.figshare.com/articles/26968777/embed?show_title=1)