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Citations

Papero finds real papers and cites them where you write. You search over 250 million scholarly papers through OpenAlex, or paste a DOI, PMID, arXiv ID or ISBN, and press Cite. The in-text citation goes in at your cursor in your document's style, and Papero builds the reference list at the end of the document for you.

In this section

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  1. Cite as you write: open Cite, cite a paper, put several sources in one citation, and edit a citation's page and order.
  2. Find papers: search from Cite or the Find papers page, read the result cards, sort and filter, and save papers for later.
  3. Add a source by identifier: paste a DOI, PMID, arXiv ID or ISBN, and where the details come from.
  4. Citation styles: pick and change one of over 10,000 styles, on every plan.
  5. Custom citations: add a source by hand, and edit a saved source.
  6. Reference list: how the list is built, copied and exported.
  7. Journal impact filter: what the Journal impact figure means and how to filter by it.

How citing fits together

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  1. Gather papers before you write on the Find papers page, or find them as you go in Cite.
  2. Cite each claim where you make it. Each source you cite is saved in your library, so you can cite it again in one click.
  3. When a source is not in the results, look it up by its identifier or add it by hand.
  4. Pick the style your course or journal asks for, at the start or at any time later.

Papero's AI can also cite for you. On Free, suggestions and section drafts can cite the PDFs you upload. On Plus, they can cite your own sources and papers Papero finds for the section. See Autocomplete and Draft a section.

Free and Plus

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Citing works the same on Free and Plus: every citation style, lookups, custom citations, and a reference list you can read and copy. You can also see and edit your saved sources on both plans. The reference list in Word and LaTeX exports, and exporting your sources as BibTeX or RIS files, are part of Plus. Paper searches count toward your plan's allowance; Usage in the account menu shows what you have left. To compare the plans, see pricing.

Help inside the app

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The in-app guide Find and cite papers covers this section. Open it from Guides at the foot of the sidebar, or from the account menu under Help > Guides.

Where to go next

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To see how Papero finds sources, read Find sources on papero.ai.