MyBib: Free Citation Generator

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Automatically create APA style, MLA format, and Harvard referencing style citations with our citation generator add-on for Chrome.

Latest reviews

• (2024-04-17) Thanishk Bangera: I never had to use any other citation generator. Does exactly what it says, love it!
• (2024-04-16) Matthew Browse: If you're a student who has to write essays that require the use of academic articles or journals, honestly this extension is greatest tool on the planet.
• (2024-04-09) Xan Blackstone: An absolute lifesaver. It makes referencing websites so easy!
• (2024-04-08) ROBERTO ABRAHAM TOSTADO ACOSTA: util
• (2024-03-31) areshi71: Extremadamente útil y práctica. Muy recomendable!
• (2024-03-31) Oyindamola Deborah: kindly check, save to project is not functioning properly
• (2024-03-26) Lee HoLong (Drew): Removing a star because the "+ save to project" function is not working lately. It flashes when being clicked and it only adds the citation to a particular past project, not the lastest project opened.
• (2024-03-26) Forever Akyrah: It is a great extension for the a desktop or computer.
• (2024-03-25) Yasmin Cristina: Muito útil
• (2024-03-14) Thaddeus Kephart: I do a lot of research papers for school and this tool is a life-saver. Even though by now I would probably know how to credibly cite the sources I use, this tool makes it so much easier. And with us being in such a world that's run by technology, why not utilize it? I love this plug-in!!
• (2024-03-13) Maddison Wech: amazingn
• (2024-03-05) James Stocker: As a secondary school teacher of research based subjects for 25 years and in possession of an honours degree in History, I feel well qualified for what I am about to say. I was shocked and astonished to find that MyBib has somehow flagged the excellent US online publication The Electronic Intifada as "probably not credible". It also goes on erroneously state that the publication I have trusted and respected for two decades contains "a high amount of clickbait" and features "opinionated articles". Without providing any more information or explanation let alone any clarity evidence for these completely false, misleading and rather mischievious statements, I feel compelled to defend its reputation and equally ask the question as to how and why MyBib got this wrong so arbitrarily and so badly. The Electronic Intifada is one of the few publications in English that focuses on "Palestine, its people, politics, culture and place in the world". Topics include Palestinian excperiences living under Israel's illegal occupation and military control of and over the Palestinian Territories as well as general focus on Palestinian and Israeli politics at home and abroad. It has a strong record of holding governments, organisations and individuals to account focusing on the Israeli lobby in the US, UK and Europe whose role it is to defend Israel ensuring its narrative is heard in the corridors or power. It also highlights the work of grassroots organisations fighting for justice in and for Palestine. Its editorial choices and journalism are informed by the "commitment of its cofounders and editors to universal principles of human rights, international law, anti-racism and equal justice" and "provide a forum where commonly excluded perspectives and challenging viewpoints are presented". And that means by extension presenting both Palestinian and Israeli voices and Palestinian and other Arab American perspectives and viewpoints as well as those from leading academics, including those from Israel. Leading human rights organizations like B'tselem, Amnesty International Human Rights Watch, activists from organisations like Jewish Voices for Peace, Code Pink, Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), Palestinian Center for Human Rights, Rabbis for Human Rights, Gush Shalom, and Machsom Watch and others and news agencies with strong records like Mondoweiss, Palestine Chronicle, The Intercept, Middle East Eye, Common Dreams, I have read and used the publication since its inception with the utmost confidence in the reliability and credibility of its sources and the validity of the methodolgies used by its contributors and journalists. It has an extremely strong record of presenting original reports, special investigations that are not only factual but based on rigorous journalistic standards, extensive cross referencing and an extremely strong and reliable evidence base. The publication also hosts opinion and analysis reviews on books and features blogs from people who document their everyday life under occupation, It's editorial selection policies are transparent as are the clear distinctions between what is news and what is educated opinion and personal opinion. The integrity of the Electronic Intifada has never been in question and its commitment to independent quality journalism makes it not only a valuable resource but a vital one. One can only hope that MyBib has not succumbed to the work of theIsraeli lobby or is not the latest to feel pressure in the long history of western institutions attempting to silence Palestinian voices on behalf of the Israeli government. I look forward to a speedy investigation and overturning of this grossly unfair and unwarranted aspersions being cast upon The Electronic Intifada. The publication has been alerted to MyBib's decision. The Editorial Team and their Credentials Ali Hasan Abunimah is a Palestinian-American journalist based in Chicago and is the founder of EI. Maureen Clare Murphy, is an American artist and writer and recent graduate Arts, Music, and Culture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Nora Barrows-Friedman is an Jewish American journalist, editor and radio broadcaster Michael F. Brown is an American independent and freelance journalist. David Cronin is a British journalist specialising in European politics. Tamara Nassar is a Palestinian freelance writer, researcher and editor. Asa Winstanley is an Welsh investigative journalist and author who writes extensively about Palestine and the Israel lobby
• (2024-03-05) Salma Repole: AMAZINGGGGG LOOVE it! the best out there
• (2024-03-03) Alyssa Gammell: I love this extension more than you know. It's so helpful and efficient. I appreciate the team behind this and everyone who backs it!
• (2024-02-29) Astrid Ramirez: buen material
• (2024-02-22) Alex: Amazing extension, super convenient. I only really use it for MLA 9 so I am not sure how correct the other citations are but it works for me!
• (2024-02-21) samantha cuestas: Esto simplemente te facilita la vida!!
• (2024-02-21) spongebob_: if i never have my bib i would have not passed history.
• (2024-02-19) Jazzlyn Lino: Saving me so much time thank you.
• (2024-02-18) Kiel Jennings: This has been an absolute life saver for my University study. Thank you.
• (2024-02-18) نسألك رضاك: So helpful and free app. It creates citations and reference lists for free, anyway you can edit the citation because artificial intelligence cannot match the heavenly gift.
• (2024-02-09) Daniel Panuco: Sweetttt!
• (2024-02-06) Chidozie Nwanedo: Amazing!!
• (2024-02-04) Sebastian Keddy: Awesome app. Why the three stars then? This app is great. It's applicable for just about any online source and is really easy to use. If you aren't using an online source, then you get help sourcing the content properly. You can have multiple bibliographies going on at once, and you choose from hundreds of citation styles, as well as put them in-text with those styles. I was honestly considering giving it two stars though, because of two things. Every SINGLE time you add a citation to your project, it brings you to the mybib webpage. This didn't seem like too much of an issue at first, but it got old quick. The other thing is that it doesn't auto sign you in, so citations created on other devices are lost if you don't. Again, this doesn't really seem too bad, but for some reason, no one I know has been able to log in, so citations across devices is just not an option. With that being said, it may be possible to fix the things I've had issues with, so I strongly recommend this app. It's a much better alternative to pretty much any citing resource there is.
• (2024-01-30) Leticia Bertrand: Me ahorra mucho tiempo!!
• (2024-01-15) Kylie Osborne: This is by far the best, most accurate citation browser extension I've used. I've been loyal to MyBib since my freshman year of high school and it has never let me down! I only wish they would change two things: 1. I want to be able to change the font and size of the text when copy-pasting directly from the in-browser pop-up window. You can do this if you go to the website, but not if you're just copying and pasting from the pop-up (as I often do). 2. When I use the Write/paste citation section, I want to be able to *also* manually write out the in-text citation for the source, and have a shortcut to it like there is when you use all the other citation methods. Overall a great tool, just in need of a few extra features to make it perfect!
• (2024-01-07) Gemma Ryan: amazing, really useful when writing university essays!
• (2023-12-31) Anna Echegaray: Te ahorra mucho trabajo. Es ideal.
• (2023-12-30) Emmanuel Ali: I love you guys! Thanks for this site!
• (2023-12-29) Nathan Carroll: Its very very convenient!
• (2023-12-18) Nicole Ahmed: Citations are often formatted incorrectly with this extension. I have sent a report to the company. There are several reports of this through the years if you look in the reviews. The title of the webpage as captured by the extension is sometimes used correctly as the title in a citation. Other times it is used incorrectly as the author/organisation. This affects all citation formats. The title of the webpage should always remain the title in citations including APA citations. In the absence of author information – website name should be the organisation.
• (2023-12-08) Danielle “Professor D” Blake: This little thing has helped me earn 6 degrees in 8 years and is working like a charm for my phd. Just saying. It works. Like. A. Boss.
• (2023-12-07) Lois: This chrome extension is the GOAT for writing essays.
• (2023-12-04) Pamela Stropko: This app does not give the correct APA formatting. Very frustrating!!
• (2023-12-01) Zach Beiswenger: Amazing free tool, so convenient and easy to use
• (2023-11-26) Aced Reza: This has made my research work so much easier. Love it. Especially the chicago style where it generates in text reference as well as end reference.
• (2023-11-23) roxy lange: Makes school work so much easier, you get to focus on the important things instead of silly little things as citation.
• (2023-11-23) Enoch Eghe: nice job. this feature is excellent
• (2023-11-20) Bhargav Chittireddy: This made my day when I first installed it. This makes life so much easier. Thanks for creating this!
• (2023-11-14) Rodrigo Pinto Ruiz: Muy buena para la realización de tareas en la universidad. La recomiendo
• (2023-11-14) ÆRO ŠPECIALIST: A FEW BUGS TO NOTE: The APA format is good most of the time, but there are two problems that should be mentioned. 1. Sometimes it misses the Author's Name. The Author's name should be in the front of the reference and contain [Last Name], [first Intitial] 2. And sometimes it fails to italicize [titles] I really hope you guys can fix this soon. Thanks For the good plugin!
• (2023-11-12) Kamila Antoszczuk: very effective and usefull app
• (2023-11-10) wee: Wish I discovered MyBib earlier in my uni days, very convenient in adding references from any websites or journal paper, keep it up!! Recommendation: Able to pick a specific project from the extension window, so it does not always saved to the recent project that I am working on. Currently have no issues on switching projects manually, as for now I'm working on projects one at a time.
• (2023-11-09) Hossein Moosavi: Very practical add-on! It would have been great to be able to create custom style. I like to have the first author surname and first name abbreviation followed by et al, jornal name, year and DOI as in-text citation style.
• (2023-11-08) Kaz: This is a hugely intuitive and intelligent extension to MyBibs which in itself is such a helpful tool. many thanks to the develvopers.
• (2023-11-08) Rong Liu: 这么说吧，没有这个软件，我不知道大学怎么活 ：）
• (2023-11-06) Samanta Surfer: Es lo más esta app.... La amo!
• (2023-11-03) Mariko Kramer: Love how easily this integrates with google chrome for users who primarily work in google docs. Outstanding citation tool, one of my favourite I've used in my 6+ years of university. My only suggestion is that when you save a reference to a project, that it gives you some sort of check or confirmation/acknowledgement in the window that it has saved (when I started using the tool I accidentally saved the same source like 10 times when I added to a project because I assumed there would be an acknowledgement like "saved to project!" or the bar turning green or something).
• (2023-11-02) Tempus Group: Thank you! Very helpful!
• (2023-10-30) TheRealrA9: I love this extension! The only recommendation is to make sighting certain pages and getting the in-text citation easier so I can have the book sighted and enter the page number separately to get the in-text citation. I don't want to have references for each page. Besides that, I like it so far. Sometimes it misses some information. You just need to double check the reference, which is a lot easier than making a reference from scratch. Highly recommended.

Latest issues

• (2023-09-27, v:5.2.0) choco bull: TEST
  TEST
• (2021-09-13, v:1.1.22) Lachie West: GUI Not loading
  Hey the GUI isnt loading or working anymore, i can send a screen shot of what i mean. But the interface has reduced itself to just text.
• (2021-08-07, v:1.1.22) Naama Cohen: Problem
  "Save to project" btn doesn't work .. and, how do I change project?
• (2021-07-28, v:1.1.22) Carl Sheely: Mybib-free-citation-generate
  It is not working, need help!
• (2021-06-19, v:1.1.22) F B: Erroneous spaces between words and colons
  Every time I generate a new entry, at least in Chicago format, there are extra spaces automatically generated between words and colons, so I have to manually go through my document and remove them. Please fix this. Here is an example below - note the extra space before the colon, after the word "Journey". There should be no space there. G.I. Gurdjieff, The Inner Journey : Views from the Gurdjieff Work, ed. Jacob Needleman (Sandpoint, Id: Morning Light Press, 2008).
• (2021-05-19, v:1.1.22) Kentaro Barhydt: Custom Citation Formats
  PLEASE make an option for users to create custom citation formats that we can easily copy-paste from the browser extension directly. I, like many other researchers, have my own Google Docs document where I list and take notes on many papers I read, and I use a custom heading format for each section of the document corresponding to that paper's notes (Title, Pub. year, Abbr. publication name, All authors first initial last name). It would be extremely helpful if we could create our own custom format to generate a citation in for the paper's webpage we're on, and easily copy-paste it into a Google Doc (or any other text document editor) in another tab. If this is added, I would make this my main citation generator extension.
• (2021-04-02, v:1.1.22) Thom Thompson: Can;t get started
  1. I have poor vision. Can't see where to start. 2. Help forums assume that the folks writing to them can write clearly. They usually can't. And anyway with my eyesight I don't want to read them. 3. You may, should yoou choose to do so, e-mail me at [email protected]
• (2021-03-27, v:1.1.22) Saud Jalilani: Mybib extensioin gets corrupt
  I have started using Mybib just now it seems good but google chrome extension gets corrupted after citing once. i have to repair it again and again which wastes my precious time. please let me know the solution.
• (2021-03-08, v:1.1.22) Jessica SchoolAcc: Organising
  Could you add an option to sort bibliography by type, then alphabetically.
• (2021-03-01, v:1.1.22) Vaibhav Chawla: Could you please add the University of Essex Format to your Tool.
  Hello Dev, Ma I request you to please add the university of Essex scheme to this tool. This tool is a life changer... I could share you the details of the University of Essex formatting. vaibhavchawla(a)gmail (dot) com
• (2021-01-19, v:1.1.22) My bib is no working
  I can not connect to mybib. When will this be fixed I am teaching my middle schoolers how to create citations and need access.
• (2020-12-01, v:1.1.22) Sia Sung: http error 503
  HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable.
• (2020-12-01, v:1.1.22) Shailynn Mcpherson: Citations ot working
  MyBib is not working onmy laptop nor my mothers. Service is unavailable
• (2020-12-01, v:1.1.22) Hafsa Ammar: Error
  Error showing. Will all of my citations get erased?
• (2020-12-01, v:1.1.22) April Quinton: Unable to connect
  HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable.
• (2020-12-01, v:1.1.22) vi: Service Unavailable
  Can't cite and can't open my citation list. Has error message that says service unavailable
• (2020-11-13, v:1.1.22) anjili: Style
  Hi I'm new to the extension, and I don't understand the differences between the styles, and if they effect the citation? Thank you!
• (2020-09-01, v:1.1.20) dan: Error
  Says We're sorry, but MyBib is currently experiencing issues. We're working hard to fix this, and none of your citations will be lost. ‌
• (2020-08-19, v:1.1.19) Dennis Lay: Unable to download
  Hi, when i try to download the extension, an error occurs and says that there is no file to download
• (2020-08-08, v:1.1.18) om knowledge: om
  what is your name what is your father name what is your mother name
• (2020-08-08, v:1.1.18) om knowledge: om
  what is your name what is your father name what is your mother name
• (2020-06-21, v:1.1.16) Paula Vestin: Cannot Change the Style
  The style is stuck in Harvard, I cannot change to APA 7
• (2020-06-20, v:1.1.15) Jabez K: Extension not allow to choose APA style
  Thank you for an amazing extension and service. I just started to use it but I can not change the style on the chrome extension. It is harvard style and I can see the search box. I typed 'APA' on the box but does not appear anything.
• (2020-02-29, v:1.1.13) Feedback - Slow Speed
  I find it a bit slow, also when I change the style and select a new one, often it takes an extreme amount of time to change it.
• (2020-01-19, v:1.1.13) martha babatunde: Deleting account
  i need to delete an account that is conflicting with my current account, how can i go about it?
• (2019-12-09, v:1.1.13) Nikkia Thompson: Need to reinstall every time we use computers
  Our class installed mybib to their classroom computers. They are having to reinstall each day; they did sync information, but many of them still have to reinstall the program.
• (2019-09-23, v:1.1.11) David Kan: HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable.
  I'm trying to use mybib but I keep getting the "HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable." error code.
• (2019-09-23, v:1.1.11) John Zingale: My Bib not Working
  My students and I are trying to use your service, but the extension is working, and we keep getting a Service Unavailable error. Is My Bib still a working service, or is this a tech issue on our end?
• (2019-01-29, v:1.1.9) Jonas Olsen: Language
  Is there an option to change the language?
• (2019-01-20, v:1.1.9) Carol DeLis: Which of the hundreds of styles do this:
  [regarding an article on the internet] I do research papers on current events and need the date of when the ARTICLE was published. Totally CONFUSING to have a date of 2000 (when the website first appeared) when the citation is to a CURRENT EVENT.and was published Jan 5, 2019! Most styles I have tested leave out the 2019 date entirely. Which makes that style useless for me. Do you have a page of examples of each style so I don't have to test each one of the hundreds and try to remember which ones I have already tested when scrolling down the list? This is what I need: Title of article Date of the ARTICLE (and NOT the date the site was first on the internet) The URL of the article (which includes the website which does NOT have to be separate) Does NOT have "retrieved" date Does NOT have all those space-taking extra words of "accessed" and "retrieved from" and so on. To keep it simple and uncluttered. Title either in quotes or italicized, whichever. "Title", www.example.com/articletitle/otheridstuffofwebsite, dateofarticle. (date retrieved can be optional as long as there is no date of website (2000) and that there IS the URL and there IS the actual date of the article itself).
• (2019-01-18, v:1.1.9) William Hart: Authours
  even on documents that I can easily find the authour's names on. Your extension never can find an authour, it happens on every single page I try to cite.
• (2018-11-29, v:1.1.8) Error in Formatting Reference
  Good moring! I have all of my classes using MyBib and they love it. However, today, all of my students are getting the message 'Error in Formatting Reference" on new citations and previously entered citations. Is this a known issue or is there something I can do on my end to help with this? Thanks so much, Kelli Fitch