What makes Citation so unique? At least part of Citation’s appeal is grounded in background research and attentiveness to the working preferences of academic writers. Since academic writers tend to do most of their work with their word processor, we have designed Citation to be tightly integrated with the most popular word processing systems.

Here’s a very basic summary of how it works:

Bibliographic data and research notes are entered into notecard like forms. (Citation provides forms for most types of source works used in academic research.) Citation formats bibliographic information as a citation (in the style you have selected) as it is typed into the form.

Citation "keys" are included in your word processing document to cite the bibliographic work you have entered. To write the references for your paper, you just select a style, and click. Citation replaces the keys in the paper with citations.