Supported Citation Styles

Referencing is an essential part of scholarly writing, providing credit where it's due, and linking together published research. Manually formatting references, however, can be incredibly time-consuming and very frustrating. SmartCite helps you make quick work of formatting your document in a fraction of the time to simplify this painstaking task for you.

While most journals and academic departments will guide you towards a specific formatting style for submissions, it's easy to get lost when trying to navigate the over 9000 available styles. Many may look similar to one another, but there are plenty of slight differences between them. The great thing about SmartCite, if you need to switch styles, you can do that at any time. ​

An easy way to think about citation styles is that most of the styles fall into a few main style categories: "author-date", "author" and "numeric styles." Below you will find general examples, popular styles from each category, plus links to a full list of styles of that particular type. All these styles are included in the export pane of the web/desktop app (right menu), within the PDF viewer in the left menu, and in SmartCite for Word and Google Docs.)