EZScite

    Free citation generator

    Paste a DOI, link, ISBN or PMID and get the reference ready to use — or paste your whole list and get it back formatted and in order. Free, no sign-up.

    ABNT, APA 7, Chicago, Harvard and MLA are free. Other styles are part of Premium.

    Runs in your browser: only the identifier or the text of each reference is sent to the bibliographic databases (Crossref, DataCite, Open Library, PubMed). Nothing is stored.

    An article title works too — in that case you confirm we found the right work.

    How it works

    1. 1With a DOI, ISBN, PMID or arXiv ID we fetch the official record from Crossref, DataCite, Open Library or PubMed. Without an identifier, you fill in author, year and title.
    2. 2EZScite formats it in your chosen style with the official CSL files — the same ones Zotero and Mendeley use — and also gives you the in-text citation, like (Smith, 2020).
    3. 3In a list, each reference is looked up and rewritten in your style, in alphabetical order. What we can't find stays as you pasted it, marked for you to review.

    Free styles: APA 7, MLA 9, Chicago (author-date), Harvard and ABNT. Vancouver, IEEE, NP 405 and others are in Premium.

    Without an account: up to 30 references per list and 60 searches per hour.

    Creating citations is free; keeping them is EZScite. With an account, your library comes with you into Word and your browser.

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