Cite — find real sources for your claims beta · LLM-assisted

Paste your text — get sources for each claim, then export a .bib. Claim-splitting and source-matching are LLM-assisted, so review each suggestion before you accept it.

What Cite does

Paste a paragraph or draft section, optionally set a domain filter, and click Find citations.

  • Detects the sentences in your text that need citation support.
  • Each claim gets real candidate sources from live scholarly databases — suggestions are topical matches to review, not a guarantee that a source supports a specific claim.
  • Export the sources you keep as a .bib file.
  • Copy citations in APA, MLA, Chicago, Vancouver, or IEEE format.
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Why this matters

When you already have the prose, the hard part is finding a real, citable source for each specific claim. Cite reads your text, isolates the statements that need support, and searches the same live scholarly databases Scout uses to suggest real sources for each one — then exports a .bib. Every suggestion is a real record from a database, not a model-generated citation.

Examples

Claim to sources

Paste a paragraph → Cite splits it into individual claims, finds candidate real sources for each, ranks them by relevance, and lets you accept the ones that fit and export them as a .bib.

FAQ

Does Cite write citations with AI?

It uses a model only to identify which sentences need a citation; every suggested source is a real record returned by a scholarly database, never invented.

Do I need an account?

Yes — Cite requires a free sign-in (it is more resource-intensive than Scout).

Will it cite every sentence?

No — it targets statements that actually warrant a source, and you choose which suggestions to accept.

Is my pasted text stored?

No text is stored after processing.

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Export the .bib and run it through BibCheck to catch duplicates before you submit. Need a broader topic search rather than claim-by-claim? Use Scout.

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