diff --git a/src/Plugin/Filter/FootnotesFilter.php b/src/Plugin/Filter/FootnotesFilter.php
index 03bff31..8189be0 100644
--- a/src/Plugin/Filter/FootnotesFilter.php
+++ b/src/Plugin/Filter/FootnotesFilter.php
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ class FootnotesFilter extends FilterBase implements ContainerFactoryPluginInterf
       // Citations should not contain paragraph tags as they should be inline
       // content. This attempts to remove them; however, if the 'Convert line
       // breaks filter' runs after this filter, it will still be an issue.
-      $markup = str_replace(['<p>', '</p>'], '', $markup);
+      // $markup = str_replace(['<p>', '</p>'], '', $markup);
       static::replaceNodeContent($node, $markup);
     }