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Sharly is a research instrument, not a source. Cite it when it did work you report in your methods — screening literature, extracting data, content analysis in a review. Cite the documents you read, not Sharly, for the findings themselves.

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Cite Sharly

APA (7th ed.)
BibTeX
  • In text: (Macario, 2026) · Sharly AI (Macario, 2026)
  • The DOI above always resolves to the latest version of the note. To cite the exact version you used: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22803981 (version 2026.09).
  • The citation file for Zotero, Mendeley and EndNote is on the citation page.

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Disclose your use of Sharly

Most journals and universities require authors to declare any use of AI tools. Adapt one of these two sentences and record the software version you used. The version is shown at the bottom of every citations list in Sharly, next to How to cite Sharly.
Methods section
AI-use statement

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Frequently asked

Yes, as an instrument, the way you cite VOSviewer, NVivo or SPSS. Not as an author, and not as a source of facts.
Most now require it. COPE and ICMJE state that AI tools cannot be listed as authors and that their use must be disclosed. The sentences above are written for that.
The DOI above resolves to the latest version of the note. If your work depends on the exact behaviour you used, cite that version’s DOI from the Zenodo record.
No. Sharly finds and extracts what your documents say. Cite the document for the finding.

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The technical note

The technical note describes Sharly as a research instrument: what it accepts, how documents are processed, how answers and citations are produced, the research workflows it supports, and its limitations. Reviewers and librarians can check it.

Technical note on Zenodo

Macario, S. (2026). Technical note, software version 2026.09. CC BY 4.0.
Eighteen published works from 2024 to 2026 refer to Sharly; the list is on the citation page.