Find Citations
Find citations for journal articles, books, chapters and conference papers in seconds. Search by title, author names or keywords, or paste a whole reference you want to track down. Each match shows its citation count and DOI, and you can copy the reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, IEEE and more, or as BibTeX.
Search covers works with a DOI registered at Crossref. Check each match against the source before you cite it.
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Search the Scholarly Record
Find Citations searches Crossref, the registry behind most DOIs, which holds records for journal articles, books, chapters, proceedings and reports from thousands of publishers. It is the same source publishers use to link references between papers, so its titles, authors and page ranges are usually reliable.
Paste a Reference to Trace It
Have a reference from someone else’s bibliography but no link? Paste it whole and the closest matching work comes first, with its DOI, so you can find citations even when the details are incomplete.
See How Often a Work Is Cited
Each result shows how many Crossref-registered works cite it, a quick way to spot the landmark paper among several with similar titles. Highly cited work is not always the right one to cite, but the count tells you which version most researchers point to.
Why Find Citations Here?
Ready to Paste in Any Style
Every match is formatted on the spot in APA 7, MLA 9, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE, Vancouver, AMA or ACS, so you can find citations and copy them in one step.
BibTeX for LaTeX Users
One click copies a BibTeX entry with a citation key for any result, ready for a .bib file in LaTeX or Overleaf.
Cite a single source in detailCollect as You Search
Add results to a reference list that follows you to the bibliography generator, where you can sort, restyle and export everything you found. Use it to find citations for a whole reading list in one sitting.
Open DOI to BibTeXHow to Find Citations in 3 Steps
Step 1: Search
Type a title, a few keywords with an author’s surname, or paste a full reference, then press Find. Short, distinctive words work best: the main noun phrases of the title and one author surname.
Step 2: Pick the Right Match
Compare titles, authors, years and journals. The citation count and DOI link help you confirm you have the right work.
Step 3: Copy or Collect
Choose your style and copy the reference or BibTeX, or add the work to your list to build a full bibliography later.
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Find Citations FAQ
- How to find a citation for a website?
- Look for the author, page title, site name and date, usually under the headline or at the foot of the page. Then paste the page URL into our citation generator, which reads these details from the page and formats them for you.
- How to find citations of a paper?
- To see who has cited a paper, use the Cited by link in Google Scholar, or Scopus and Web of Science if your library subscribes. This tool shows the Crossref citation count for each result, which is usually lower than Google Scholar’s because it counts only works with DOIs.
- How to find citations?
- Search by the title or a few keywords plus an author, open the best match, and copy its reference in your style. To find citations for a topic rather than a known work, start with Google Scholar or a subject database, then bring the titles here to cite them.
- How to find a citation for an article?
- Search for the article title and choose the match with the right authors and journal. Find Citations gives you the full reference with volume, issue, pages and DOI, formatted in the style you pick. If the article has several versions, such as a preprint and a journal article, cite the version you actually read.
- How to find APA citations?
- Leave the style set to APA 7 and search for the work; each result is shown as an APA reference ready to copy. For the in-text citation, open the source in the APA citation generator.
- How to find a source from a citation?
- Paste the whole reference into the search box. The closest match usually comes first with its DOI link, which opens the source on the publisher’s site. If nothing matches, search the exact title in Google Scholar or your library catalogue.
- How to find citation in Google Scholar?
- Search for the work, then click the quotation-mark Cite icon under the result. Scholar offers MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard and Vancouver, plus a BibTeX link. Scholar records can contain errors, so check the details against the source.
- What if I can't find an author for APA citation?
- Use the organisation that published the work as the author. If there is none, start the reference with the title and use a shortened title in the in-text citation, for example ("Climate Report," 2023).
- How do you find citations on Mendeley?
- Use Mendeley’s search to find a paper and add it to your library, then insert it with the Mendeley Cite add-in for Word. If a paper is missing there, find citations here and import the BibTeX file into Mendeley.
- How to find DOI for citation?
- Search the title here: each result links its DOI. You can also find the DOI on the article’s first page, its publisher page or its database record. Books often have no DOI; use their ISBN to find citations for them in the citation generator instead.
- How to find a citation for a quote?
- Put a distinctive phrase from the quote in quotation marks and search Google Scholar or Google Books, which index full text. Once you know the title, search it here to copy the full reference.
- How to find BibTeX citation?
- Search for the work and press BibTeX on the result to copy an entry with a citation key. Add as many as you like and paste them into your .bib file.
- Can it find citations for a sentence or piece of text?
- Not directly. The search matches titles, authors and journals, not the full text of papers. Search a key phrase in Google Scholar first, then find citations for the works it suggests here.
- Does this tool use AI to find citations?
- No. It searches Crossref’s index of real, registered works, so every result exists and has a DOI. AI chatbots can suggest references that do not exist; always check any AI suggestion in a search like this one.
- Can I paste a whole reference to find the original?
- Yes. Paste the full reference in any style, as it appears in a bibliography, and press Find. Crossref matches it against its records, so you can recover the DOI and a clean citation even from a messy reference.
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