Changelog

Generative AI is a new source type, for what ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot and other AI tools write. Paste the link that Share in the AI tool gives you and the form opens with the tool, the company and the link filled in. Add the date of the chat and your prompt.

APA, MLA and Chicago each have a way to cite AI, and that is what we print: APA cites a shared chat by its title, MLA by your prompt, and Chicago in a note. Most other styles, IEEE and Vancouver among them, have no form for AI yet, so the form and the citation’s card say what each one asks for instead. How to cite ChatGPT and other AI tools has the details, style by style.

The source type called Article is now Preprint: a paper on a server such as arXiv, SSRN or bioRxiv, or a working paper. It has boxes for the server and the DOI, so looking up an arXiv paper by its DOI now keeps both. In the list of source types it now sits with the academic sources, beside Report and Conference Paper. A working paper is cited as a preprint too: its series and number go in two boxes under More details, and working papers in a reference list you import are filed there.

If you saved a blog post or another online article as Article, change its type to Blog Post or Website. For an article in a journal, a newspaper or a magazine, choose that type. How to cite an article helps you tell them apart.

Select a few sources and Verify now checks only those. Reset asks before it clears your results.

Sources without a DOI are now checked for retractions too. The check finds the source by its title, uses the DOI from that record, and offers to add it to your citation. A DOI that leads to a different paper is flagged as probably mistyped, with the right one suggested.

Each source in your list now gives you what goes in the body of your paper, not only its reference.

• Page numbers. Choose Add a page number from a citation’s copy menu and type the page. (Lee, 1960) becomes (Lee, 1960, p. 23), ready to copy.
• The author in your sentence. When you name the author yourself, copy the short form instead: Lee (1960) rather than (Lee, 1960). It works in APA, MLA, Harvard and other styles that cite by author.
• Footnotes. In Chicago notes, AGLC, OSCOLA and other footnote styles, each source shows its full first footnote, its shorter later footnote and its Ibid.
• Writing order. A new tab in each project. List your citations in the order your paper uses them, and it numbers the footnotes, works out which ones are short and where Ibid goes, and tells you if a change means copying one again. It is free in every project, on every plan.

If you write with Pandoc or Quarto, you can also export your list as CSL-JSON.