| Votes | By | Price | Discipline | Year Launched |
| Chegg, Inc | FREE | Interdisciplinary |
Description
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CiteThisForMe is an online citation-generator tool that helps users create formatted references and bibliographies in a range of styles (APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and thousands more) by entering identifiers (author, title, DOI, URL) or manually filling out source details.
Who it serves & how
The platform is aimed primarily at students, researchers, and anyone writing academic papers who needs to compile a bibliography or reference list. It supports many source types—including journal articles, websites, books—and provides a quick way to generate citations. For example, a student working on a journal article can use CiteThisForMe to create correct citations and save time in formatting.
Key features & value
- Supports 7,000+ citation styles across disciplines and international formats.
- User interface guides users by prompting for required fields (author, date, source) and can autofill if certain identifiers are entered.
- Offers a free version (with some limitations) and a premium upgrade that adds features like saving projects, plagiarism and grammar checking.
- Integration via a browser extension facilitates quick citing of webpages.
Considerations & limitations
- The free version restricts how many entries/projects can be saved and may display ads.
- Automated citation generation may require manual checking, as the tool has been reported to produce formatting errors or omissions in some styles.
- While useful for bibliographies, CiteThisForMe is not a full reference-manager (it lacks advanced library organisation, PDF management, full collaborative workflows etc).
- Dependence on correct input: If source details are incomplete or incorrect, the citation output may similarly be flawed.
Citation Creation, Citation Styling, Citation Context, Citation Analysis