diff --git a/packages/super-editor/src/editors/v1/core/super-converter/v2/importer/citationImporter.js b/packages/super-editor/src/editors/v1/core/super-converter/v2/importer/citationImporter.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5ba1fb6dc5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/super-editor/src/editors/v1/core/super-converter/v2/importer/citationImporter.js
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+import { generateV2HandlerEntity } from '@core/super-converter/v3/handlers/utils';
+import { translator as citationTranslator } from '../../v3/handlers/sd/citation/citation-translator.js';
+
+/**
+ * @type {import("./docxImporter").NodeHandlerEntry}
+ */
+export const citationHandlerEntity = generateV2HandlerEntity('citationHandler', citationTranslator);
diff --git a/packages/super-editor/src/editors/v1/core/super-converter/v2/importer/docxImporter.js b/packages/super-editor/src/editors/v1/core/super-converter/v2/importer/docxImporter.js
index 5a80b027d3..9e1802bd29 100644
--- a/packages/super-editor/src/editors/v1/core/super-converter/v2/importer/docxImporter.js
+++ b/packages/super-editor/src/editors/v1/core/super-converter/v2/importer/docxImporter.js
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ import { tableNodeHandlerEntity } from './tableImporter.js';
 import { tableOfContentsHandlerEntity } from './tableOfContentsImporter.js';
 import { indexHandlerEntity, indexEntryHandlerEntity } from './indexImporter.js';
 import { bibliographyHandlerEntity } from './bibliographyImporter.js';
+import { citationHandlerEntity } from './citationImporter.js';
 import { preProcessNodesForFldChar } from '../../field-references';
 import { preProcessPageFieldsOnly } from '../../field-references/preProcessPageFieldsOnly.js';
 import { ensureNumberingCache } from './numberingCache.js';
@@ -251,6 +252,7 @@ export const defaultNodeListHandler = () => {
     tableOfContentsHandlerEntity,
     indexHandlerEntity,
     bibliographyHandlerEntity,
+    citationHandlerEntity,
     indexEntryHandlerEntity,
     autoPageHandlerEntity,
     autoTotalPageCountEntity,