Citations plugin

I am making a website with pretty heavy duty scientific articles that need lots of citations like PubMed. You know, like superscript numbers 1, 2, 3, etc, that correspond to a list of references added to the end of the article. Like in Wikipedia for example. What I am shocked to find is that there is absolutely no reputable plugin to do this. I would imagine this is like a basic thing people want to do with WordPress, but am I wrong? I’ve found plugins, but they have only between 60 and 1000 installs, and the 1000 installs one hasn’t been updated in a while. And none of them really do what I want.

I must be missing something here, right?