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Sharly helps with four citation tasks:

Check a source

See the exact text and page behind every answer.

Cite this paper

Copy an APA or BibTeX citation, or export it to your reference manager.

See what a paper cites

Browse the paper’s own reference list.

Cite Sharly

Disclose your use of Sharly in your paper.

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Check where an answer comes from

Click Citations under any answer. Each source card shows the exact text from your document, with its page number.
  • Click Open page to jump to that page in the document viewer.
  • Mathematical formulas in excerpts are displayed as formatted math.
  • When you and a colleague upload the same paper, citations always open your own copy.

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Cite this paper

For published journal articles, each source card has a Cite button.
The Cite menu on a source card, with Copy APA reference, Copy in-text citation, Copy BibTeX and Download RIS fileThe Cite menu on a source card, with Copy APA reference, Copy in-text citation, Copy BibTeX and Download RIS file
From the paper’s DOI record opens the paper’s official record.

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Add it to your reference manager

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Which papers get a Cite button

The Cite button works with published journal articles that print their DOI on the first page. Sharly checks the title and authors against the DOI record before offering it.
Books, chapters, preprints, reviews, commentaries, corrections, retracted papers, and scanned documents without a DOI.

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See what a paper cites

Open the Insights tab next to the document viewer and expand Citations. It lists the references from the paper’s own bibliography, in APA and MLA. If the paper has no bibliography, Sharly shows No reference list found.

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Cite Sharly

At the bottom of every citations list, How to cite Sharly opens the citation page, with the version of Sharly you are using. For ready-made methods and AI-use sentences, see Cite Sharly in your paper.