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Free citation generator for students. Paste a link or DOI and get correct references in APA, MLA, Harvard, Oxford, Vancouver and 12 more styles. Organise sources into projects.

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| Website | friendlydata.io | citapp.org |
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| Company | — | 1 - 9 employees · 2026 |
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Most students lose more time to citations than to the actual writing. You find the perfect quote, keep writing, and then have no idea which source it came from. Your links live across three different tabs, half of them missing the moment you switch laptops. The night before the deadline becomes a...
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As answered by people managing FriendlyData and CitApp.
CitApp's answer:
CitApp keeps track of your sources while you read, not just when you write the reference list. Every source, quote and page number is saved in one place and sorted by chapter, so the reference list builds itself instead of being rebuilt at the end. It is free, needs no account to try, and supports 135 citation styles.
CitApp's answer:
MyBib and EasyBib create one citation at a time, and EasyBib's free plan covers only MLA. Zotero is built for researchers and needs a desktop app. General AI chat can invent references. CitApp builds every reference from the actual page, DOI or ISBN, organises the whole essay, and gives every style away for free.
CitApp's answer:
Upper secondary and university students who have to reference sources but were never properly taught how, starting with Swedish students writing their gymnasiearbete. Teacher librarians are the second audience: they recommend tools to their students, and CitApp's free tier is built to be easy to recommend.
CitApp's answer:
I am a third year upper secondary student in Sweden and I built CitApp on my own. Since I was tired of going back and forth between sources while writing essays. I tested it with my own class, where twenty of thirty-one classmates created an account in the room, and I keep building it from what students and librarians tell me.
CitApp's answer:
Next.js and TypeScript on Vercel, Supabase (PostgreSQL) for data and sign-in, Google Gemini through Vertex AI in the EU for reading pages, citeproc-js with the Citation Style Language for formatting, Stripe for payments, and Google Apps Script for the Docs add-on.
CitApp's answer:
-Students in Sweden, starting with a pilot class at an upper secondary school
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