Cite as you write, in any style your course requires
Search a source or paste a DOI, ISBN, or URL — Notesier formats the citation and drops it into your draft.
The Role of Renewable Energy in Climate Policy
Smith, J. & Lee, K. (2024) · Energy Policy Review · DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114
Subsidies and Decarbonisation Pathways
Okafor, A. (2023) · Climate Economics
Inserts (Smith & Lee, 2024) in-text and saves the source to your library.
APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE and 10 more styles — formatted in-text as you write, with DOI and URL lookup built in.
Accurate in-text citations, the moment you need them
Find a source however you have it — a title, a DOI, an ISBN, or a URL — and Notesier turns it into a correctly formatted in-text citation.
Insert from search
Search CrossRef inside your draft, pick the right paper, and Notesier fills in the author, year, and title for you.
Insert from a DOI or ISBN
Paste a DOI or ISBN and Notesier looks up the metadata automatically, so you never retype reference details.
Insert from a URL
Citing a web source? Paste the URL and Notesier reads the page to build a clean, accurate citation.
Switch styles instantly
Pick from 15 academic styles — change your mind later and reformat without rewriting a single reference.
Save sources to your library
Every source you cite can be saved, so you can reuse it across assignments instead of hunting it down again.
Citations link to the source
Each in-text citation links back to the original DOI or URL, so your references are always traceable.
From source to citation in three steps
No reference managers to wrestle with — just find, format, and insert.
Find or paste a source
Search by title, or paste a DOI, ISBN, or URL — Notesier retrieves the metadata and shows you the match.
Pick your style
Choose the citation style your module requires, from APA and Harvard to IEEE, Vancouver, and more.
Insert into your draft
Drop the formatted in-text citation exactly where your cursor is, and optionally save the source for later.
The right style for every module
Different subjects demand different conventions. Notesier covers the ones students actually need.
A humanities essay in APA
Cite journal articles and books as you build your argument, with author–date formatting handled for you.
A technical report in IEEE
Use numbered IEEE citations for your references and switch styles instantly if the brief calls for something else.
A history paper in Chicago
Add author–date citations from a DOI or URL and keep every source saved and linked back to the original.
Every style we support
Fifteen academic citation styles are built into the editor — grouped here by how they format your in-text references.
Author–date styles
- APA
- Harvard
- Chicago (Author-Date)
- ASA
- APSA
- AAA
- CSE (Name-Year)
Numbered styles
- IEEE
- Vancouver
- AMA
- NLM
- CSE (Citation-Name)
- CSE (Citation-Sequence)
Discipline-specific styles
- MLA
- ACS
Where the details come from
Notesier looks up source metadata from CrossRef for searches and DOIs, falls back to DataCite for other DOIs, uses Google Books and Open Library for ISBNs, and reads the page itself for URLs — so your in-text citations are accurate without manual typing.
Part of your research workflow
Citations sit between finding sources and writing about them. Explore the features that feed into it.
Questions about citations
Quick answers to what students ask most.
Fifteen academic styles are available in the editor: AAA, APA, APSA, ASA, ACS, AMA, MLA, Chicago (Author-Date), CSE (Name-Year, Citation-Name, and Citation-Sequence), IEEE, NLM, Harvard, and Vancouver.
Built for these assignments
See this feature in action on the assignments students use it for most.
Essays
Thesis-driven essays, structured and cited from the first line.
Research Papers
From research question to references — method-aware scaffolding.
STEM & Lab Reports
Hypothesis, methods, results and error analysis — scaffolded.
Analysis & Reviews
Evidence-led interpretation of texts, books and media — never plot summary.
Start citing accurately
Add correctly formatted in-text citations in 15 styles, straight from a DOI, ISBN, or URL — free to start.