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References

Citations & References

Manage references, insert citations as you write, and generate bibliographies in the style your target venue requires.

Adding references to your project

A few ways to get references in:

By DOI

Paste a DOI and Academe pulls in title, authors, abstract, journal, year, and the full text if open-access.

By paper identifier

Same as DOI, for preprints and biomedical literature.

PDF upload

Drop a PDF and Academe extracts the metadata automatically.

Literature search

Find papers from within Academe and import them straight into the project.

Zotero / Mendeley sync

Connect your existing reference manager and pull selected libraries.

Paste with citations

Paste prose with references and Academe detects and matches them.

Inserting citations while writing

In the editor, type /cite and press Enter. A search panel opens where you can find any reference in your project library by title, author, or keyword.

Select a reference and Academe inserts a properly formatted in-text citation at your cursor. The format follows whichever style is active for the project.

You can also ask the assistant to suggest citations. When it references a paper in your corpus, it can insert the citation directly into your draft.

Citation styles

Academe supports all the major styles and a long tail of journal-specific ones:

APA 7th EditionMLA 9th EditionChicago (Author-Date)Chicago (Notes-Bibliography)IEEEHarvardVancouverACSNatureCell

Switch between styles at any time from your project settings. All citations and the bibliography update automatically.

Bibliography generation

Academe generates your bibliography automatically from the citations in your document, updating in real time as you add or remove references. On export, the bibliography is included and formatted to your selected style.

Citation detection

Paste text that contains references, for example from a draft written elsewhere, and Academe detects citations and matches them to papers in your library or in the open-access literature.

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