CitePlex is a web-based citation generator and writing toolkit for academic and legal work. It creates references in 11 styles, including APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian, Harvard, IEEE, AMA, ACS, CSE, ASA, and Bluebook. It can retrieve title, author, date, publisher, and journal details from URLs or DOIs, and supports websites, books, journals, dissertations, case law, statutes, newspapers, videos, and PDFs. For legal work, it supports Bluebook 22nd Edition citations for cases, statutes, and regulations. The toolkit also includes annotated bibliography, thesis and essay-outline help, grammar and punctuation tools, plagiarism checks, paraphrasing, summaries, and text counts. Citation generation happens client-side in the browser. Users can generate and copy citations without an account or ads. The Free plan includes unlimited generation and copying, but limits saved citations to 20 per month and projects to two, and has no Word, BibTeX, or RIS export. Pro costs 78.96 USD per year, billed annually; Team costs 198.96 USD per year, billed annually. CitePlex recommends reviewing citations before submission.
Who it is for
CitePlex suits students, writers, and legal researchers who need references across academic and legal styles. Its extra writing tools may also suit people working with outlines, grammar, summaries, or plagiarism checks.
What is good
- Eleven citation styles, including Bluebook
- Retrieves metadata from URLs or DOIs
- Supports legal materials, videos, and PDFs
- Generate and copy without an account
- Citation generation runs in the browser
What to know first
- Free plan saves 20 citations per month
- Free plan allows two projects
- Free plan has no Word, BibTeX, or RIS export
- CitePlex recommends checking citations before submission
Verdict
CitePlex offers broad source coverage and citation generation without requiring an account. The free tier limits saved work and export formats, while Pro and Team add expanded capabilities for annual fees.
CitePlex plans and pricing
All plansCompared on AI citation generators
- Free plan
- Yes
- Paid from
- $6.58/mo
- Source inputs
- mixed
- Citation styles
- 11
- In-text citations
- Yes
- Bibliography export
- Yes
- Document integrations
- word
- Citation formats
- multiple
