CitationYou

CitationYou is a cloud-based citation management and collaborative writing platform designed for researchers, students, and writers. It provides tools to collect, organize, annotate, and cite sources, with the aim of streamlining academic writing workflows. The service supports major citation styles, including APA, MLA, Chicago, and IEEE, and offers automatic extraction of bibliographic data from PDFs and web pages, as well as integration with word processors.

Key features include reference libraries, notes and outlines, and collaborative workspaces for teams. CitationYou also includes a bibliography generator that updates in real time when source metadata changes, and a feature called Smart Citer that formats in-text citations and bibliographies according to chosen styles.

The platform is accessible via a web interface and mobile apps for iOS and Android, with cross-device syncing. It supports exports to BibTeX, RIS, and EndNote, and offers add-ons for Word and Google Docs to insert citations directly.

History: CitationYou was founded in 2015 by Elena Park and Jonah Chen in San Francisco. A public beta was released in 2018, followed by a full launch in 2019. Since then, it has expanded to serve individual researchers, universities, and research teams through institutional licenses.

Reception: Reviewers have praised its clean interface and automation for reducing manual data entry, though some users note that advanced features require paid plans and that offline access may be limited on mobile devices.

See also: Related citation management tools include Zotero, Mendeley, and EndNote.