How do I cite a source by DOI in Google Docs?

Install Refwell, open Extensions > Refwell > Add a source or cite, paste the DOI (or the article's web address) and press Look up. Refwell fills in the details from Crossref, you check them, and Save and cite puts the in-text citation at your cursor in APA, MLA, Chicago, IEEE or Harvard.

How do I make a hanging indent bibliography in Google Docs?

With Refwell, click where the reference list goes and press Insert bibliography. Refwell writes the References or Works Cited page with hanging indents and the spacing your style asks for, sorted and numbered as the style requires, and keeps it up to date as you add or remove citations.

How do I set up an APA title page in Google Docs?

On Refwell's Paper tab, choose APA 7 student or professional paper, type your title, name, affiliation, course, instructor and date, and press Format paper. Refwell adds the title page, 1 inch margins, double spacing, first-line indents, APA heading levels and, for professional papers, the running head. Then add page numbers with Insert > Page numbers.

Can I switch my paper from APA to MLA?

Yes. Choose the new style on Refwell's Style tab and every in-text citation, note and the bibliography are rewritten, including the reference list's title (References, Works Cited, Bibliography).

Citations and APA/MLA paper formatting for Google Docs

Paste a DOI, ISBN, PubMed ID or link, cite at your cursor, and get a reference list that keeps itself right. Six styles, switch any time, and a paper setup that does the title page, margins and spacing for you.

Email us to get Refwell See pricing The Refwell sidebar in Google Docs after looking up a DOI: the source's authors, title and journal filled in from Crossref, ready to save and cite.

Find a source in seconds

DOI

From Crossref, and DataCite for datasets, Zenodo and arXiv. Paste a journal's web address and Refwell finds the DOI in it.

ISBN

Book details from Open Library, ISBN-10 or ISBN-13, with or without dashes.

PubMed ID

Article details from NCBI.

Title or reference

Paste a title or a whole reference and pick the right match.

Anything else

A short form with the right fields for 15 source types, from web pages to films and datasets.

A whole list

Paste DOIs or ISBNs one per line, or import BibTeX and RIS from Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote or Google Scholar.

Citations that keep themselves right

Cite at your cursor with page numbers: (Grady et al., 2019, p. 55), or in the sentence: Grady et al. (2019). Edit a source and every citation and the reference list change with it. Delete a citation and it leaves the list. Same author, same year? You get 2019a and 2019b.

The Cite tab with two sources ticked to cite together at the cursor; the Doc shows author-date citations in the text.

An APA References page in Google Docs with hanging indents, double spacing, italic titles and live DOI links.

Six styles, switch any time

Style	In the text	The list
APA 7th	(Ray, 2004, p. 33)	References
MLA 9th	(Ray 33)	Works Cited
Chicago 18th author-date	(Ray 2004, 33)	References
Chicago 18th notes and bibliography	superscript note numbers, full first note, short notes after	Notes and Bibliography
IEEE	[1], [2, p. 7], numbered in the order you cite	numbered References
Harvard (Cite Them Right)	(Ray, 2004, p. 33)	Reference list

Switching rewrites every citation, note and the reference list. Formatting comes from the official Citation Style Language styles, the same ones Zotero and Mendeley use.

The Style tab with IEEE chosen; the Doc's citations are now numbered [1] to [4].

Chicago notes and bibliography: a Notes section with a full first note and a shortened second note, followed by the Bibliography.

Paper setup in one click

APA 7 student paper

Title page with your title, name, affiliation, course, instructor and due date.

APA 7 professional paper

Title page, author note and the running head in the header.

MLA 9

The four-line heading, centered title and your last name in the header.

Chicago / Turabian

Title page with title, name, course and date.

Plus 1 inch margins, the font you pick, double spacing, 0.5 inch first-line indents and APA heading levels 1 to 5. Google doesn't let add-ons insert page-number fields, so the last step is yours: Insert > Page numbers. Refwell tells you when.

An APA 7 student title page made by Refwell's Paper tab: bold centered title, name, affiliation, course, instructor and date.

An MLA first page: four-line heading, centered title, double spacing and the student's last name in the header.

Built to answer what people dislike about other citation add-ons

It only asks for the Doc you open it in. No access to the rest of your Drive, and nothing runs when you're not using it.
Citations are ordinary text in your Doc. Nothing gets deleted or rearranged behind your back, and they survive a download to Word as text.
No separate account, no desktop software, no browser extension.
Your sources are saved in the Doc, so a co-author you share it with sees the same list. Export them as BibTeX or RIS whenever you like.
Refresh, editing and export keep working after a trial ends: your paper is never stuck half-formatted.
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Pricing

$12.95 / month

One Google account. Cancel any time.

$79.95 / year

One Google account. About $6.66 a month.

Free trial: 20 uses or 14 days, whichever comes first. No card needed to try it. One use is inserting a citation or a bibliography, formatting a paper, or switching style. Lookups, your source list, Refresh, editing or removing citations, export and import are always free.

The Refwell sidebar after the free trial ends, showing the price and that sources, Refresh and export stay free.

Renewals and cancelling

Subscriptions renew automatically at the same price, monthly or yearly, until you cancel. Cancel any time from Extensions > Refwell > Plans and billing (Manage billing); you keep access until the end of the period you've paid for, and you won't be charged again.

UK and EU customers: you have a 14-day right to cancel a new subscription and get a full refund. Email hello@greatwork.company within 14 days of buying. If you've used the add-on during those 14 days, the refund may be reduced in proportion to what you used, as the law allows.

Privacy

Refwell can only see the Doc you open it in (Google's "current document only" permission). Lookups send only the DOI, ISBN, PubMed ID or title you typed to Crossref, DataCite, Open Library or NCBI, never your writing. Great Work's licensing server receives your Google account email and a count of uses, nothing else. Read the privacy policy.

Credits and licenses

Citation formatting by citeproc-js: (c) Frank Bennett. citeproc-js implements the Citation Style Language. https://citationstyles.org/. Refwell uses citeproc-js unmodified under the Common Public Attribution License 1.0; its Source Code is available under the CPAL here: refwell-third-party-source.zip (the exact file Refwell ships, the license texts, the original style files and the full notices), and at github.com/Juris-M/citeproc-js. Refwell's own code is not covered by the CPAL.

Citation styles and locales from the Citation Style Language project by their listed authors, under CC BY-SA 3.0; Refwell converts them from XML to JSON and shares that version under the same license. Metadata from Crossref, DataCite, Open Library (Internet Archive) and NCBI.