diff --git a/quartz/plugins/transformers/citations.ts b/quartz/plugins/transformers/citations.ts
index 5242f37c5..dcac41b2e 100644
--- a/quartz/plugins/transformers/citations.ts
+++ b/quartz/plugins/transformers/citations.ts
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ export const Citations: QuartzTransformerPlugin<Partial<Options>> = (userOpts) =
   const opts = { ...defaultOptions, ...userOpts }
   return {
     name: "Citations",
-    htmlPlugins() {
+    htmlPlugins(ctx) {
       const plugins: PluggableList = []
 
       // Add rehype-citation to the list of plugins
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ export const Citations: QuartzTransformerPlugin<Partial<Options>> = (userOpts) =
           bibliography: opts.bibliographyFile,
           suppressBibliography: opts.suppressBibliography,
           linkCitations: opts.linkCitations,
+          csl: opts.csl,
+          lang: ctx.cfg.configuration.locale ?? "en-US",
         },
       ])