diff --git a/packages/cli/src/lib/markdown.ts b/packages/cli/src/lib/markdown.ts
index 1cfaed5..401c315 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/lib/markdown.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/lib/markdown.ts
@@ -390,6 +390,7 @@ export function stripMarkdownForText(markdown: string): string {
 		.replace(/\n{3,}/g, "\n\n") // Normalize multiple newlines
 		.replace(/(~{1,2})([^~]+?)\1/g, "$2") // Remove strikethrough for ~text~ and ~~text~~
 		.replace(/<!--([^]+)-->/g, "") // Remove any html comments
-		.replace(/^\s*\[\^[^\]]+\]:[^\r\n]*(?:\r?\n[ \t]+[^\r\n]*)*/gm, "") // Remove any footnotes
+		.replace(/^\s*\[\^[^\]]+\]:[^\r\n]*(?:\r?\n[ \t]+[^\r\n]*)*/gm, "") // Remove footnote definitions
+		.replace(/\[\^\S+\]/g, "") // Remove footnote references (we do after definitions so that those can be matched first)
 		.trim();
 }