Create accurate citations faster. Organize references, manage research, add notes, and build polished bibliographies with 30+ citation styles
The Ultimate Citation and Research Companion
Citation Styles is a complete citation generator, reference manager, and bibliography tool designed to make academic writing faster and easier to organize. Citation Styles helps you create references, manage sources, organize research, and generate formatted bibliographies from one streamlined workspace.
SMARTER CITATION MANAGEMENT
Stop formatting references manually. Add your sources, choose the citation style you need, organize your research, and let Citation Styles handle your bibliography.
Inside each project, organize references into chapters so large bibliographies remain structured and easy to manage.
AUTOMATIC REFERENCE GENERATION
Add references using:
• DOI
• ISBN
• PubMed ID (PMID)
• Website or online URL
• Manual entry
Citation Styles can retrieve available metadata automatically, reducing repetitive data entry while keeping full control to review and edit every reference.
30+ CITATION STYLES
Choose from more than 30 academic citation and bibliography formats used by universities, researchers, journals, and professional organizations. Switch styles anytime and reformat references and bibliographies automatically.
ORGANIZE YOUR RESEARCH
Keep every source connected to the right project, chapter, or topic.
• Create and edit projects
• Organize references into chapters
• Add tags to important sources
• View all chapters or selected sections
• Edit reference details
Chapters are useful for theses, dissertations, books, long research papers, and projects with many sources.
NOTES AND ANNOTATIONS
Add notes directly to each reference to save important arguments, reading summaries, reminders, observations, quotes to revisit, or research findings. Keep useful information connected to its source.
BUILD AND EXPORT BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Citation Styles automatically creates a bibliography from the references in your project. Choose which chapters to include, sort your bibliography, and prepare the final output using your selected citation style.
You can:
• Copy individual formatted references
• Copy a complete bibliography
• Export your bibliography as PDF
• Select specific chapters
• Sort bibliography entries
• Change citation style at any time
BUILT FOR STUDENTS, RESEARCHERS AND PROFESSIONALS
Citation Styles is ideal for university students, master’s students, PhD candidates, academic researchers, professors, journal authors, writers, and professionals who work with references and bibliographies.
Manage anything from a few assignment sources to a large long-term research library.
FOCUS ON RESEARCH, NOT FORMATTING
Spend less time creating citations manually and more time reading, writing, and researching. Citation Styles helps you create references faster, maintain consistent formatting, organize sources, and prepare bibliographies from one simple workflow.
PREMIUM
Upgrade to Premium to unlock additional citation styles, automatic reference generation, advanced organization tools, and complete bibliography features.
Create. Organize. Cite. Export.
Make Citation Styles your citation generator, bibliography creator, and reference manager for academic and professional research.
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This app has genuinely impressed me—it's a total lifesaver for any researcher
Ifádáre
What sets it apart is how seamlessly it handles both the heavy lifting and the smart details. Pick from over 30 citation styles (APA, MLA, Chicago, Vancouver, IEEE, Harvard, and tons more—including niche ones), paste in your reference details or just drop a DOI, ISBN, PMID, or even a URL, and it instantly fetches all the accurate metadata: authors, title, journal, volume, issue, pages, publication date, publisher, and more. No manual typing errors, no hunting down missing info—it pulls everything reliably from reliable sources.Then it formats the full citation (and bibliography entry if needed) perfectly according to the chosen style, with proper punctuation, italics, hanging indents—everything spot-on. You can generate single references or build an entire list in seconds, export to Word, copy to clipboard, or save for later. It's fast, clean, and ridiculously accurate even with tricky sources like preprints, conference papers, or books with multiple editions.Gone are the days of wrestling with citation generators that guess wrong or leave blanks. This one actually does the research for you and delivers professional-grade results every time. Whether you're a student rushing a deadline, a researcher building a manuscript, or just tired of formatting headaches, this app is pure gold—intuitive, powerful, and worth every second. Highly recommended!
Lifesaver
Ampcschumy
I’ve been using this app for a few months and it’s honestly a lifesaver. I used to spend ages trying to format citations properly, and now I just drop in a PudMed Id and it’s done.It’s super easy to use, even if you’re not great with citation styles. I like that I can organize everything by project and add little notes to remind myself why I saved each source.It also helps a ton when I’m writing, having the bibliography ready and correctly formatted saves me so much stress.
Citation Styles has been updated to provide a better experience:
• Full compatibility with the new operating system
• Functionality and performance improvements
• Minor bug fixes for a smoother and more stable experience
Version 2.2.0
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Seller
Michel Odreman
Size
147.2 MB
Category
Education
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
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