diff --git a/lib/ext/Cite/index.js b/lib/ext/Cite/index.js
index f82d1f94b..525334ca9 100644
--- a/lib/ext/Cite/index.js
+++ b/lib/ext/Cite/index.js
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Ref.prototype.toDOM = function(state, content, args) {
 	// The php preprocessor did our expansion.
 	const allowNestedRef = state.parseContext.inTemplate && state.parseContext.extTag !== 'ref';
 
-	return ParsoidExtApi.parseWikitextToDOM(state, args, '', content, {
+	return ParsoidExtApi.parseTokenContentsToDOM(state, args, '', content, {
 		// NOTE: sup's content model requires it only contain phrasing
 		// content, not flow content. However, since we are building an
 		// in-memory DOM which is simply a tree data structure, we can
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ var createReferences = function(env, body, refsOpts, modifyDp, autoGenerated) {
 };
 
 References.prototype.toDOM = function(state, content, args) {
-	return ParsoidExtApi.parseWikitextToDOM(state, args, '', content, {
+	return ParsoidExtApi.parseTokenContentsToDOM(state, args, '', content, {
 		wrapperTag: 'div',
 		extTag: 'references',
 		inTemplate: state.parseContext.inTemplate,