diff --git a/conf/specs.js b/conf/specs.js
index e930720..cceb8c0 100644
--- a/conf/specs.js
+++ b/conf/specs.js
@@ -1 +1,8 @@
-global.STORYSHOP_API_URI = 'http://nonexistent';
\ No newline at end of file
+global.STORYSHOP_API_URI = 'http://nonexistent';
+global.window = {
+  navigator: {
+    userAgent: 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/53.0.2785.116 Safari/537.36',
+  }
+};
+
+require.extensions['.css'] = function() {};
diff --git a/conf/storybook/webpack.config.js b/conf/storybook/webpack.config.js
index 370d4ab..7dde8c8 100644
--- a/conf/storybook/webpack.config.js
+++ b/conf/storybook/webpack.config.js
@@ -6,5 +6,15 @@ module.exports = {
       path.resolve( './src' ),
     ],
   },
+  module: {
+    loaders: [
+      {
+        test: /plugin\.css$/,
+        loaders: [
+          'style', 'css',
+        ],
+      },
+    ],
+  }
 };
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index eb950ae..b80f875 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -60,9 +60,11 @@
     "babel-runtime": "^6.5.0",
     "css-loader": "^0.23.1",
     "debug": "^2.2.0",
-    "draft-js": "0.9.0",
-    "draft-js-mention-plugin": "1.1.0",
-    "draft-js-plugins-editor": "1.1.0",
+    "draft-js": "0.9.1",
+    "draft-js-linkify-plugin": "^2.0.0-beta5",
+    "draft-js-mention-plugin": "2.0.0-beta5",
+    "draft-js-plugins-editor": "2.0.0-beta5",
+    "draft-js-undo-plugin": "^2.0.0-beta5",
     "enzyme": "^2.4.1",
     "express": "^4.13.4",
     "falcor": "^0.1.16",
diff --git a/src/components/reference-editor/index.js b/src/components/reference-editor/index.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dccfcc8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/reference-editor/index.js
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+import { PropTypes } from 'react';
+import reactStamp from 'react-stamp';
+
+import EditorFactory from 'components/editor';
+
+import createMentionPlugin, { defaultSuggestionsFilter } from 'draft-js-mention-plugin';
+import createUndoPlugin from 'draft-js-undo-plugin';
+import createLinkifyPlugin from 'draft-js-linkify-plugin';
+
+import 'draft-js-mention-plugin/lib/plugin.css';
+import 'draft-js-undo-plugin/lib/plugin.css';
+import 'draft-js-linkify-plugin/lib/plugin.css';
+
+import MentionComponent from './mention-text';
+import SuggestionsFactory from './suggestions';
+
+export const mentionPlugin = createMentionPlugin({ mentionComponent: MentionComponent });
+export const undoPlugin = createUndoPlugin();
+export const linkifyPlugin = createLinkifyPlugin();
+
+const { MentionSuggestions } = mentionPlugin;
+const Suggestions = SuggestionsFactory(MentionSuggestions);
+
+export default (React, ...behaviours) => {
+  const Editor = EditorFactory(React);
+  return reactStamp(React).compose({
+    propTypes: {
+      onSearchChange: PropTypes.func,
+      searchSuggestions: PropTypes.arrayOf(PropTypes.shape({
+        type: PropTypes.oneOf(['character', 'element']).isRequired,
+        _id: PropTypes.string.isRequired,
+        name: PropTypes.string.isRequired,
+        link: PropTypes.string.isRequired,
+        avatar: PropTypes.string.isRequired,
+      })).isRequired,
+    },
+
+    render() {
+      const { onSearchChange, searchSuggestions, plugins = [], ...rest } = this.props;
+      return (
+        <div>
+          <Editor
+            plugins={[...plugins, mentionPlugin, undoPlugin, linkifyPlugin]}
+            {...rest}
+          />
+          <Suggestions
+            onSearchChange={onSearchChange}
+            suggestions={searchSuggestions}
+          />
+        </div>
+      );
+    },
+  });
+};
diff --git a/src/components/reference-editor/mention-text.js b/src/components/reference-editor/mention-text.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bdfa5c9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/reference-editor/mention-text.js
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+import React from 'react';
+import { Link } from 'react-router';
+import { cyan700, green700 } from 'material-ui/lib/styles/colors';
+
+const MentionComponent = ({ mention, className, mentionPrefix, children }) => (
+  <Link
+    to={mention.get('link')}
+    className={className}
+    style={{
+      background: 'none',
+      color: mention.get('type') === 'character' ? cyan700 : green700,
+    }}
+  >
+    {mentionPrefix}{children}
+  </Link>
+);
+
+export default MentionComponent;
diff --git a/src/components/reference-editor/spec.js b/src/components/reference-editor/spec.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1021a4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/reference-editor/spec.js
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+import React from 'react';
+import test from 'tape';
+import { shallow } from 'enzyme';
+import spy, { createSpy } from '../../utils/spy';
+
+import EditorFactory, { mentionPlugin, linkifyPlugin, undoPlugin } from './';
+import UpstreamEditorFactory from 'components/editor';
+
+const Editor = EditorFactory(React);
+const UpstreamEditor = UpstreamEditorFactory(React);
+
+test('ReferenceEditor', t => {
+  let instance, actual, expected;
+
+  const content = {};
+
+  instance = shallow(<Editor content={content} searchSuggestions={[]} />);
+
+  {
+    const upstream = instance.children().at(0);
+    t.ok(upstream, 'should render the editor');
+
+    const plugins = upstream.props().plugins;
+    t.notEquals(plugins.indexOf(mentionPlugin), -1, 'should manage mention plugin');
+    t.notEquals(plugins.indexOf(undoPlugin), -1, 'should manage undo plugin');
+    t.notEquals(plugins.indexOf(linkifyPlugin), -1, 'should manage linkify plugin');
+  }
+
+  {
+    const onSearchChange = () => {};
+    const searchSuggestions = [];
+    instance = shallow(<Editor content={content} onSearchChange={onSearchChange} searchSuggestions={searchSuggestions} />);
+    const suggestions = instance.children().at(1);
+
+    t.ok(suggestions, 'renders suggestion list');
+    t.equals(suggestions.props().onSearchChange, onSearchChange, 'passed search callback down');
+    t.equals(suggestions.props().suggestions, searchSuggestions, 'passes suggestion list down');
+  }
+
+  t.end();
+});
diff --git a/src/components/reference-editor/story.js b/src/components/reference-editor/story.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..75627e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/reference-editor/story.js
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+import React from 'react';
+import { storiesOf, action } from '@kadira/storybook';
+
+import EditorFactory from './';
+
+const Editor = EditorFactory(React);
+
+import {
+  ContentState,
+  ContentBlock,
+  CharacterMetadata,
+  convertToRaw,
+} from 'draft-js';
+import { is, fromJS, List, Repeat } from 'immutable';
+
+const genContent = (text) => {
+  const contentState = ContentState.createFromBlockArray([
+    new ContentBlock({
+      key: 'abc',
+      type: 'unstyled',
+      text,
+      characterList: List(Repeat(CharacterMetadata.EMPTY, text.length))
+    }),
+  ]);
+  return convertToRaw(contentState);
+};
+
+storiesOf('Reference Editor', module)
+  .add('default', () => {
+    const initialContent = genContent('Here we go');
+    return (
+      <Editor
+        content={initialContent}
+        onSearchChange={action('onSearchChange')}
+        searchSuggestions={[
+          { type: 'character', _id: '1', name: 'Abc', link: '123', avatar: 'https://sigil.cupcake.io/Abc' },
+          { type: 'element', _id: '2', name: 'Zone', link: '42', avatar: 'https://sigil.cupcake.io/Zone' },
+        ]}
+      />
+    );
+  });
diff --git a/src/components/reference-editor/suggestions/entry.js b/src/components/reference-editor/suggestions/entry.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e40d522
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/reference-editor/suggestions/entry.js
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+import React from 'react';
+import ListItem from 'material-ui/lib/lists/list-item';
+import Avatar from 'material-ui/lib/avatar';
+
+const EntryComponent = ({ mention, className, ...props }) => (
+  <ListItem
+    leftAvatar={<Avatar src={mention.get('avatar')} />}
+    {...props}
+  >
+    {mention.get('name')}
+  </ListItem>
+);
+
+export default EntryComponent;
diff --git a/src/components/reference-editor/suggestions/index.js b/src/components/reference-editor/suggestions/index.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b07a28a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/reference-editor/suggestions/index.js
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+import React from 'react';
+import { fromJS } from 'immutable';
+import EntryComponent from './entry';
+
+export default function (MentionSuggestions) {
+  return ({ suggestions, ...rest }) => (
+    <MentionSuggestions
+      {...rest}
+      suggestions={fromJS(suggestions)}
+      entryComponent={EntryComponent}
+      style={{ boxShadow: 'none' }}
+    />
+  );
+}