diff --git a/backend/danswer/llm/answering/stream_processing/citation_processing.py b/backend/danswer/llm/answering/stream_processing/citation_processing.py
index 950ad2078..1333d2112 100644
--- a/backend/danswer/llm/answering/stream_processing/citation_processing.py
+++ b/backend/danswer/llm/answering/stream_processing/citation_processing.py
@@ -67,9 +67,9 @@ class CitationProcessor:
                 if piece_that_comes_after == "\n" and in_code_block(self.llm_out):
                     self.curr_segment = self.curr_segment.replace("```", "```plaintext")
 
-        citation_pattern = r"\[(\d+)\]"
+        citation_pattern = r"\[(\d+)\]|\[\[(\d+)\]\]"
         citations_found = list(re.finditer(citation_pattern, self.curr_segment))
-        possible_citation_pattern = r"(\[\d*$)"  # [1, [, etc
+        possible_citation_pattern = r"(\[+\d*$)"
         possible_citation_found = re.search(
             possible_citation_pattern, self.curr_segment
         )
@@ -77,13 +77,15 @@ class CitationProcessor:
         if len(citations_found) == 0 and len(self.llm_out) - self.past_cite_count > 5:
             self.current_citations = []
 
-        result = ""  # Initialize result here
+        result = ""
         if citations_found and not in_code_block(self.llm_out):
             last_citation_end = 0
             length_to_add = 0
             while len(citations_found) > 0:
                 citation = citations_found.pop(0)
-                numerical_value = int(citation.group(1))
+                numerical_value = int(
+                    next(group for group in citation.groups() if group is not None)
+                )
 
                 if 1 <= numerical_value <= self.max_citation_num:
                     context_llm_doc = self.context_docs[numerical_value - 1]
@@ -131,14 +133,6 @@ class CitationProcessor:
 
                     link = context_llm_doc.link
 
-                    # Replace the citation in the current segment
-                    start, end = citation.span()
-                    self.curr_segment = (
-                        self.curr_segment[: start + length_to_add]
-                        + f"[{target_citation_num}]"
-                        + self.curr_segment[end + length_to_add :]
-                    )
-
                     self.past_cite_count = len(self.llm_out)
                     self.current_citations.append(target_citation_num)
 
@@ -149,6 +143,7 @@ class CitationProcessor:
                             document_id=context_llm_doc.document_id,
                         )
 
+                    start, end = citation.span()
                     if link:
                         prev_length = len(self.curr_segment)
                         self.curr_segment = (
diff --git a/backend/tests/unit/danswer/llm/answering/stream_processing/test_citation_processing.py b/backend/tests/unit/danswer/llm/answering/stream_processing/test_citation_processing.py
index 13e6fd73b..386f1d25e 100644
--- a/backend/tests/unit/danswer/llm/answering/stream_processing/test_citation_processing.py
+++ b/backend/tests/unit/danswer/llm/answering/stream_processing/test_citation_processing.py
@@ -385,6 +385,16 @@ def process_text(
             "Here is some text[[1]](https://0.com). Some other text",
             ["doc_0"],
         ),
+        # ['To', ' set', ' up', ' D', 'answer', ',', ' if', ' you', ' are', ' running', ' it', ' yourself', ' and',
+        # ' need', ' access', ' to', ' certain', ' features', ' like', ' auto', '-sync', 'ing', ' document',
+        # '-level', ' access', ' permissions', ',', ' you', ' should', ' reach', ' out', ' to', ' the', ' D',
+        # 'answer', ' team', ' to', ' receive', ' access', ' [[', '4', ']].', '']
+        (
+            "Unique tokens with double brackets and a single token that ends the citation and has characters after it.",
+            ["... to receive access", " [[", "1", "]].", ""],
+            "... to receive access [[1]](https://0.com).",
+            ["doc_0"],
+        ),
     ],
 )
 def test_citation_extraction(