To use our auto-citations feature, install the Grammarly browser extension. Anytime you’re reading on a compatible source website, you’ll see a Get citation button appear in the lower-left corner of your screen. Click it to get a full citation and an in-text citation for the source you’re viewing, ready and formatted for you to use. If you need to format citations for a new paper in a different style guide, you can easily switch between APA, MLA, and Chicago using the suggestion’s dropdown menu.
If you don’t see this button, please switch on the Show “Get citation” option. The Get citation button will then appear at the bottom of the page on one of these websites:
- journals.plos.org/plosone
- sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/
- journals.sagepub.com/doi
- ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles
- doaj.org/article
- arxiv.org/abs
- *.springeropen.com/articles
- frontiersin.org/articles/
- onlinelibrary.wiley.com/
- journals.physiology.org/
- science.org/
- nature.com
- pnas.org/
- annualreviews.org/
- pubs.asha.org/
- academic.oup.com/
- mdpi.com/
- muse.jhu.edu/
- online.ucpress.edu/journals
- journals.uchicago.edu/
If you use one of our paid subscription plans, you can also use Grammarly to identify formatting mistakes and format your bibliography or in-text citations according to the MLA, APA, or Chicago formatting style.
Citation formatting in the Grammarly Editor
When using the Grammarly Editor, you can choose your preferred formatting style by setting your domain to Academic and then adjusting the Format setting:
The Grammarly Editor will then offer suggestions to ensure that your in-text citations and references are formatted in accordance with your preferred formatting style.
Citation formatting in docs
You can also check and adjust the citation style of your document using the AI Chat agent within docs, our new AI writing surface.
Citation finder agent
Additionally, we recommend that you explore the Citation Finder agent, which can examine the quality and substance of arguments in a piece of writing and identify publicly available sources that support, conflict with, or contradict the points being made in the writing, with easy-to-find links and pre-formatted citations in APA, MLA, and other common styles.
Note: If you’ve activated Superhuman Go, you’ll see the Superhuman logo or tab instead of the Grammarly ones. Grammarly is now part of Superhuman. Learn more in this article: Becoming Superhuman
Here’s what Grammarly (first image) and Superhuman Go (second image) look like in your browser:
Free Citation Generator
If you’d like to generate a citation for any reference, check out our free Citation Generator. You’ll need to enter the information about your source and then copy the citation to your document.