diff --git a/.github/workflows/data-processing.yml b/.github/workflows/data-processing.yml
index 39b1db9709f..6312513cbe8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/data-processing.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/data-processing.yml
@@ -241,6 +241,32 @@ jobs:
             exit 1
           fi
 
+      #========================================
+      # Update FReD citation (Weekly or Manual)
+      #========================================
+      - name: Update FReD Citation
+        continue-on-error: true  # Continue even if this step fails
+        run: |
+          echo "=== Updating FReD citation ==="
+          
+          # Check if it's a Sunday (day 0) OR manually triggered
+          CURRENT_DAY_OF_WEEK=$(date +%u)
+          if [ "$CURRENT_DAY_OF_WEEK" != "7" ] && [ "${{ github.event_name }}" != "workflow_dispatch" ]; then
+            echo "ℹ️ Skipping FReD citation update (not Sunday and not manual trigger)"
+            exit 0
+          fi
+          
+          echo "🔄 Running FReD citation update..."
+          python3 scripts/update_fred_citation.py
+          
+          if [ -f "static/data/fred_citation.txt" ]; then
+            echo "✅ FReD citation updated successfully"
+            echo "Citation length: $(wc -c < static/data/fred_citation.txt) bytes"
+          else
+            echo "❌ FReD citation file was not created"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
       #=======================================================
       # Create a pull request for GA data updates on monthly runs
       #=======================================================
@@ -320,6 +346,7 @@ jobs:
             content/curated_resources/
             content/glossary/
             data/
+            static/data/
             content/contributor-analysis/
             content/publications/citation_chart.webp
           retention-days: 7
@@ -342,6 +369,12 @@ jobs:
           cp content/contributors/tenzing.md /tmp/generated-resources/ || true
           cp data/ga_data.json /tmp/generated-resources/ga_data.json || true
           
+          # Copy FReD citation if it exists
+          if [ -f static/data/fred_citation.txt ]; then
+            mkdir -p /tmp/generated-resources/static/data
+            cp static/data/fred_citation.txt /tmp/generated-resources/static/data/fred_citation.txt
+          fi
+          
           # Copy additional generated files
           mkdir -p /tmp/generated-resources/contributor-analysis
           cp -r content/contributor-analysis/* /tmp/generated-resources/contributor-analysis/ || true
@@ -373,7 +406,7 @@ jobs:
           pushd "$WORKTREE_DIR"
 
           # Ensure target directories exist
-          mkdir -p content/curated_resources content/contributors data content/contributor-analysis content/publications
+          mkdir -p content/curated_resources content/contributors data content/contributor-analysis content/publications static/data
 
           # Remove old generated resource files (but keep _index.md)
           find content/curated_resources -type f ! -name '_index.md' -delete 2>/dev/null || true
@@ -389,6 +422,9 @@ jobs:
           if [ -f /tmp/generated-resources/ga_data.json ]; then
             cp /tmp/generated-resources/ga_data.json data/ga_data.json
           fi
+          if [ -f /tmp/generated-resources/static/data/fred_citation.txt ]; then
+            cp /tmp/generated-resources/static/data/fred_citation.txt static/data/fred_citation.txt
+          fi
           if [ -f /tmp/generated-resources/summaries.json ]; then
             cp /tmp/generated-resources/summaries.json data/summaries.json
           fi
@@ -417,6 +453,7 @@ jobs:
             git add content/curated_resources/ 2>/dev/null || true
             git add content/contributors/tenzing.md 2>/dev/null || true
             git add data/ga_data.json 2>/dev/null || true
+            git add static/data/fred_citation.txt 2>/dev/null || true
             git add data/summaries.json 2>/dev/null || true
             git add content/contributor-analysis/ 2>/dev/null || true
             git add content/publications/citation_chart.webp 2>/dev/null || true
diff --git a/layouts/shortcodes/cite-us.html b/layouts/shortcodes/cite-us.html
index 7eb0568470a..3b210a0ea8a 100644
--- a/layouts/shortcodes/cite-us.html
+++ b/layouts/shortcodes/cite-us.html
@@ -7,6 +7,17 @@
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ " css/cite_us.css" | relURL }}">
 {{ end }}
 
+{{/* Load FReD citation from text file or use fallback */}}
+{{ $fredCitation := "" }}
+{{ $citationFile := "static/data/fred_citation.txt" }}
+{{ if fileExists $citationFile }}
+    {{ $fredCitation = readFile $citationFile }}
+    {{/* Remove leading/trailing whitespace manually */}}
+    {{ $fredCitation = trim $fredCitation " \n\r\t" }}
+{{ else }}
+{{ $fredCitation = print "Wallrich, L.*, & Röseler, L.*, Hartmann, H., Ashcroft-Jones, S., Doetsch, C., Kaiser, L., Schüller, S. M., Aldoh, A., Behbood, H., Elsherif, M. M., Klett, N., Krapp, J., Liu, M., Pavlović, Z., Pennington, C. R., Schütz, A., Seida, C., Siziva, K., Skvortsova, A., Aczel, B., Adelina, N., Agostini, V., Al-Hoorie, A. H., Alarie, S., Albayrak-Aydemir, N., Alzahawi, S., Anvari, F., Arriaga, P., Baker, B. J., Barth, C. L., Bauer, D. J., Becker, R., Beitner, J., Belaus, A., Bhatt, H., Bhogal, J., Boyce, V., Breemer, L., Brick, C., Brohmer, H., Brummernhenrich, B., Budd, E., Butler, A., Casula, A., Chandrashekar, S. P., Chen, S., Chung, K. L., Cockcroft, J. P., Crowe, P., Cummins, J., Daniel, A., Deane, O., Deressa, T. K., Dienlin, T., Diveica, V., Draguns, A., Dumbalska, T., Efendic, E., El Halabi, M., Enright, S., Evans, T. R., Exner, A., Farrar, B. G., Feldman, G., Fillon, A., Floyd, J., Fontana Vieira, F., Frese, J., Förster, N., Gattie, M. C., Gemmecke, C., Genschow, O., Giannouli, V., Gjoneska, B., Gnambs, T., Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, A., Graham, C. J., Greshake Tzovaras, B., Guay, S., Hausenloy, J., Haviva, C., Henderson, E. L., Herderich, A., Hilbert, L., Holgado, D., Hussey, I., Höfer, L., Ilchovska, Z. G., Imada, H., Imwene, P., Izydorczak, K., Jaubert, S., Jeftić, A., Kalandadze, T., Kamermans, K., Karhulahti, V., Kasseckert, L., Kastrinogiannis, A., Klingelhöfer-Jens, M., Kocalar, H. E., Koppel, L., Koppold, A., Korbmacher, M., Kujawa, Z., Kulke, L., Kumar, P., Kuper, N., LaPlume, A. A., Lach, R., Lecuona, O., Lee, J., Leech, G., Leksina, E., Lin, C., Liu, Y., Lohkamp, F., Lou, N. M., Lynott, D., Mackinnon, S., Maier, M., Maiya, S., Makel, M. C., Manrique-Castano, D., Manríquez-Robles, D., Mathes, L., McSharry, D., Meidenbauer, K. L., Meier, M., Micheli, L., Miller, T., Montefinese, M., Moreau, D., Moser, N., Mrkva, K., Murphy, J., Muthu, J., Narkar, N., Nemcova, M., Nádvorník, J., O'Mahoney, R., O'Mahony, A., Oberholzer, Y., Oomen, D., Osano, M., Otstavnov, N., Packheiser, J., Pandey, S., Panton, H., Papenmeier, F., Parsons, S., Paruzel-Czachura, M., Pavlov, Y. G., Pittelkow, M., Plomp, W., Plonski, P. E., Pravednikov, A., Pronizius, E., Pua, A., Pypno-Blajda, K., Rausch, M., Raza, H., Reason, R., Rebholz, T. R., Resulbegoviq, H., Richert, E., Ross, R. M., Russo, S., Röer, J. P., Sandkühler, J. F., Schmidt, K., Sempere, N., Sobolak, R., Sperl, M. F., Stevens, J. R., Stogianni, M., Szekely, R., Tan, A. W., Thürmer, J. L., Tiulpakova, M., Tomczak, J., Tołopiło, A., Tunca, B., Vanpaemel, W., Vaughn, L. A., Verheyen, S., Vineyard, G. H., Weber, L., Weinberg, A., Wingen, S., Wolska, J., Yeung, S. K., Younssi, M., Zaneva, M., Zimmermann, D., Azevedo, F. (2026). FORRT Library of Replication Attempts (FLoRA) [Data set]. OSF. <a href=\"doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/9R62X\">doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/9R62X </a> <br> * These authors contributed equally to this work." }}
+{{ end }}
+
 <div class="cite-us-section">
     <h4 class="section-title">If you want to cite FORRT, in general, cite:</h4>
 
@@ -46,17 +57,18 @@ <h4 class="section-title">If you want to cite FORRT, in general, cite:</h4>
     </div>
 </div>
 
+
 <div class="cite-us-section">
-    <h4 class="section-title">If you want to cite FReD, cite:</h4>
+    <h4 class="section-title">Citational Justice Toolkit:</h4>
 
     <div class="cite-us-item">
         <div class="cite-us-text">
-            Röseler, L., Kaiser, L., Doetsch, C., Klett, N., Seida, C., Schütz, A., Aczel, B., Adelina, N., Agostini,
-            V., Alarie, S., ... , Zaneva, M., & Zhang, Y. (2024). The Replication Database: Documenting the
-            Replicability of Psychological Science. Journal of Open Psychology Data, 12: 8, pp. 1–23.
-            <a href="https://doi.org/10.5334/jopd.101" class="doi-link">DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jopd.101</a>
+            Sauvé, S. A., Middleton, S. L., Gellersen, H., & Azevedo, F. (2025, July 31). In Pursuit of Citational
+            Justice: A Toolkit for Equitable Scholarship. https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/qjecy_v2
+            <a href="https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/qjecy_v2" class="doi-link">DOI:
+                https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/qjecy_v2</a>
         </div>
-        <button class="copy-button" onclick="copyText(this, 'fred')">
+        <button class="copy-button" onclick="copyText(this, 'citational_justice_toolkit')">
             <svg class="copy-icon" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" viewBox="0 0 24 24">
                 <path stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-width="2"
                     d="M8 16H6a2 2 0 01-2-2V6a2 2 0 012-2h8a2 2 0 012 2v2m-6 12h8a2 2 0 002-2v-8a2 2 0 00-2-2h-8a2 2 0 00-2 2v8a2 2 0 002 2z">
@@ -68,16 +80,13 @@ <h4 class="section-title">If you want to cite FReD, cite:</h4>
 </div>
 
 <div class="cite-us-section">
-    <h4 class="section-title">Citational Justice Toolkit:</h4>
+    <h4 class="section-title">If you want to cite FReD, cite:</h4>
 
     <div class="cite-us-item">
         <div class="cite-us-text">
-            Sauvé, S. A., Middleton, S. L., Gellersen, H., & Azevedo, F. (2025, July 31). In Pursuit of Citational
-            Justice: A Toolkit for Equitable Scholarship. https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/qjecy_v2
-            <a href="https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/qjecy_v2" class="doi-link">DOI:
-                https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/qjecy_v2</a>
+            {{ $fredCitation | safeHTML }}
         </div>
-        <button class="copy-button" onclick="copyText(this, 'citational_justice_toolkit')">
+        <button class="copy-button" onclick="copyText(this, 'fred')">
             <svg class="copy-icon" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" viewBox="0 0 24 24">
                 <path stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-width="2"
                     d="M8 16H6a2 2 0 01-2-2V6a2 2 0 012-2h8a2 2 0 012 2v2m-6 12h8a2 2 0 002-2v-8a2 2 0 00-2-2h-8a2 2 0 00-2 2v8a2 2 0 002 2z">
@@ -92,7 +101,7 @@ <h4 class="section-title">Citational Justice Toolkit:</h4>
     const citations = {
         forrt1: "Azevedo, F., Parsons, S., Micheli, L., Strand, J., Rinke, E., … & FORRT (2019, December 13). Introducing a Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training (FORRT). https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/bnh7p",
         forrt2: "Azevedo, F., Liu, M., Pennington, C. R., Pownall, M., Evans, T. R., Parsons, S., Elsherif, M. M., Micheli, L., Westwood, S., & FORRT. (2021). Towards a culture of open scholarship: The role of pedagogical communities. BMC Research Notes, 15(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-022-05944-1",
-        fred: "Röseler, L., Kaiser, L., Doetsch, C., Klett, N., Seida, C., Schütz, A., Aczel, B., Adelina, N., Agostini, V., Alarie, S., ... , Zaneva, M., & Zhang, Y. (2024). The Replication Database: Documenting the Replicability of Psychological Science. Journal of Open Psychology Data, 12: 8, pp. 1–23. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jopd.101",
+        fred: {{ $fredCitation | jsonify }},
         citational_justice_toolkit: "Sauvé, S. A., Middleton, S. L., Gellersen, H., & Azevedo, F. (2025, July 31). In Pursuit of Citational Justice: A Toolkit for Equitable Scholarship. https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/qjecy_v2"
     };
 
diff --git a/scripts/update_fred_citation.py b/scripts/update_fred_citation.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b98a431b3c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/update_fred_citation.py
@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""
+Script to fetch and update the FReD citation from the FReD-data repository.
+
+This script downloads the latest citation from:
+https://raw.githubusercontent.com/forrtproject/FReD-data/refs/heads/main/output/citation.txt
+
+And saves it to static/data/fred_citation.txt for use in the cite_us page.
+"""
+
+import sys
+import logging
+from pathlib import Path
+from urllib import request
+from urllib.error import URLError
+
+# Set up logging
+logging.basicConfig(
+    level=logging.INFO,
+    format='%(levelname)s: %(message)s'
+)
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+# Constants
+CITATION_URL = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/forrtproject/FReD-data/refs/heads/main/output/citation.txt"
+OUTPUT_FILE = "static/data/fred_citation.txt"
+
+def fetch_fred_citation():
+    """
+    Fetch the FReD citation from the GitHub repository.
+    
+    Returns:
+        str: The citation text, or None if fetch failed
+    """
+    try:
+        logger.info(f"Fetching FReD citation from {CITATION_URL}")
+        with request.urlopen(CITATION_URL, timeout=10) as response:
+            citation = response.read().decode('utf-8')
+            logger.info("Successfully fetched FReD citation")
+            return citation
+    except URLError as e:
+        logger.error(f"Failed to fetch citation: {e}")
+        return None
+    except Exception as e:
+        logger.error(f"Unexpected error while fetching citation: {e}")
+        return None
+
+def save_citation(citation, output_path):
+    """
+    Save the citation to a text file.
+    
+    Args:
+        citation: The citation text to save
+        output_path: Path where to save the citation
+    
+    Returns:
+        bool: True if successful, False otherwise
+    """
+    try:
+        output_file = Path(output_path)
+        output_file.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+
+        # Post-process citation to match required format
+        # Replace DOI URL with HTML link and append note if not present
+        import re
+        # Find DOI URL (assume starts with https://doi.org/)
+        citation = citation.strip()
+        # Remove any trailing note
+        citation_main = citation
+        note = "* These authors contributed equally to this work."
+        if "* These authors contributed equally to this work." in citation:
+            citation_main = citation.split("* These authors contributed equally to this work.")[0].strip()
+
+        # Replace DOI URL with HTML link
+        doi_pattern = r'(https://doi\.org/[\w\./-]+)'
+        def repl(match):
+            url = match.group(1)
+            return f'<a href="{url}">{url}</a>'
+        citation_main = re.sub(doi_pattern, repl, citation_main)
+
+        # Compose final citation
+        citation_final = citation_main + "\n\n" + note + "\n"
+
+        with open(output_file, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
+            f.write(citation_final)
+
+        logger.info(f"Successfully saved citation to {output_path}")
+        return True
+    except Exception as e:
+        logger.error(f"Failed to save citation: {e}")
+        return False
+
+def main():
+    """Main function to fetch and save the FReD citation."""
+    logger.info("Starting FReD citation update")
+    
+    # Fetch citation
+    citation = fetch_fred_citation()
+    if not citation:
+        logger.error("Failed to fetch citation, exiting")
+        return 1
+    
+    # Save citation
+    if not save_citation(citation, OUTPUT_FILE):
+        logger.error("Failed to save citation, exiting")
+        return 1
+    
+    logger.info("FReD citation update completed successfully")
+    return 0
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sys.exit(main())
diff --git a/static/data/fred_citation.txt b/static/data/fred_citation.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..efbecc4ebd8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/static/data/fred_citation.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Wallrich, L.*, & Röseler, L.*, Hartmann, H., Ashcroft-Jones, S., Doetsch, C., Kaiser, L., Schüller, S. M., Aldoh, A., Behbood, H., Elsherif, M. M., Klett, N., Krapp, J., Liu, M., Pavlović, Z., Pennington, C. R., Schütz, A., Seida, C., Siziva, K., Skvortsova, A., Aczel, B., Adelina, N., Agostini, V., Al-Hoorie, A. H., Alarie, S., Albayrak-Aydemir, N., Alzahawi, S., Anvari, F., Arriaga, P., Baker, B. J., Barth, C. L., Bauer, D. J., Becker, R., Beitner, J., Belaus, A., Bhatt, H., Bhogal, J., Boyce, V., Breemer, L., Brick, C., Brohmer, H., Brummernhenrich, B., Budd, E., Butler, A., Casula, A., Chandrashekar, S. P., Chen, S., Chung, K. L., Cockcroft, J. P., Crowe, P., Cummins, J., Daniel, A., Deane, O., Deressa, T. K., Dienlin, T., Diveica, V., Draguns, A., Dumbalska, T., Efendic, E., El Halabi, M., Enright, S., Evans, T. R., Exner, A., Farrar, B. G., Feldman, G., Fillon, A., Floyd, J., Fontana Vieira, F., Frese, J., Förster, N., Gattie, M. C., Gemmecke, C., Genschow, O., Giannouli, V., Gjoneska, B., Gnambs, T., Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, A., Graham, C. J., Greshake Tzovaras, B., Guay, S., Hausenloy, J., Haviva, C., Henderson, E. L., Herderich, A., Hilbert, L., Holgado, D., Hussey, I., Höfer, L., Ilchovska, Z. G., Imada, H., Imwene, P., Izydorczak, K., Jaubert, S., Jeftić, A., Kalandadze, T., Kamermans, K., Karhulahti, V., Kasseckert, L., Kastrinogiannis, A., Klingelhöfer-Jens, M., Kocalar, H. E., Koppel, L., Koppold, A., Korbmacher, M., Kujawa, Z., Kulke, L., Kumar, P., Kuper, N., LaPlume, A. A., Lach, R., Lecuona, O., Lee, J., Leech, G., Leksina, E., Lin, C., Liu, Y., Lohkamp, F., Lou, N. M., Lynott, D., Mackinnon, S., Maier, M., Maiya, S., Makel, M. C., Manrique-Castano, D., Manríquez-Robles, D., Mathes, L., McSharry, D., Meidenbauer, K. L., Meier, M., Micheli, L., Miller, T., Montefinese, M., Moreau, D., Moser, N., Mrkva, K., Murphy, J., Muthu, J., Narkar, N., Nemcova, M., Nádvorník, J., O'Mahoney, R., O'Mahony, A., Oberholzer, Y., Oomen, D., Osano, M., Otstavnov, N., Packheiser, J., Pandey, S., Panton, H., Papenmeier, F., Parsons, S., Paruzel-Czachura, M., Pavlov, Y. G., Pittelkow, M., Plomp, W., Plonski, P. E., Pravednikov, A., Pronizius, E., Pua, A., Pypno-Blajda, K., Rausch, M., Raza, H., Reason, R., Rebholz, T. R., Resulbegoviq, H., Richert, E., Ross, R. M., Russo, S., Röer, J. P., Sandkühler, J. F., Schmidt, K., Sempere, N., Sobolak, R., Sperl, M. F., Stevens, J. R., Stogianni, M., Szekely, R., Tan, A. W., Thürmer, J. L., Tiulpakova, M., Tomczak, J., Tołopiło, A., Tunca, B., Vanpaemel, W., Vaughn, L. A., Verheyen, S., Vineyard, G. H., Weber, L., Weinberg, A., Wingen, S., Wolska, J., Yeung, S. K., Younssi, M., Zaneva, M., Zimmermann, D., Azevedo, F. (2026). FORRT Library of Replication Attempts (FLoRA) [Data set]. OSF. <a href="https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/9R62X">https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/9R62X</a>
+
+* These authors contributed equally to this work.