Citeory Support

the theory behind citations

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Getting started with the Word add-in

After installing Citeory from the Office Store, a Citeory button appears on Word's Home tab. Click it to open the task pane.

Choose your citation style: APA 7, MLA 9, Turabian 9 (Notes–Bibliography), or AMA 11.
Paste any of the following into the box: a rough citation, a DOI (e.g. 10.1177/1524838017742386), a doi.org link, or the web address of your source.
Press Normalize. Citeory parses your input, verifies it against scholarly registries and the source page where possible, and shows rule checks for anything missing.
Click Insert reference to place the formatted entry at your cursor — with true italics, Times New Roman 12, double spacing, and a hanging indent — or insert the matching in-text citation (full-note text for Turabian).

Using the website

The same engine runs at citeory.cksites.dev with no installation: normalize a citation, review the rule checks, open Why does it look like this? to learn the rules behind the result, and use Copy for Word to paste it with formatting intact. See how it works.

What Citeory can cite

The engine recognizes these source types. Pick one yourself with the source-type selector, or paste your source and let Citeory identify it and tell you which signals it used.

Journal article
Book
Chapter in an edited book
Web page
Report
Dissertation or thesis
Conference paper
Newspaper article
Magazine article
Dataset
Video
Review
Bible or sacred text
Wikipedia entry
Encyclopedia or reference entry
Dictionary entry
Continuously-updated database entry
Podcast or podcast episode
Film
Television episode
Social media post
Software or mobile app
Song or album
Artwork
Map
Brochure or pamphlet
Press release
Speech, lecture, or slides
Preprint
Patent
Personal communication (in-text only)

In Bluebook, Citeory also formats court cases, codified statutes, and constitutional provisions.

Common questions

Why does Citeory say a page couldn't be fetched?

Some publishers block automated readers or require a login. Citeory explains the reason it was refused; you can still fill in the fields manually and format the citation.

Why does a citation look different from what my instructor expects?

Citeory follows the published style manuals for APA 7, MLA 9, Turabian 9, and AMA 11 (any deliberate deviation is documented in the in-app rules digest). Always verify citations against the applicable publication manual and your instructor's guidance — Citeory is an aid, not an authority.

Does Citeory read my document?

No. The add-in only inserts text at your cursor when you click Insert. See the privacy policy.

Do I need an account?

You can try Citeory as a guest with a daily limit. Creating an account starts a free trial and unlocks paid plans; manage your plan any time from Account & billing.

Does Citeory use AI to write citations?

No. Every formatted citation is produced by a deterministic, rule-based engine: the same input always yields the same output, and each formatting decision maps to an explicit style rule you can inspect. See the AI Use Policy.

How does Citeory check that a source really exists?

Citeory verifies DOIs against their registrar — Crossref or DataCite — and cross-checks the record against OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, and PubMed. Books are checked against Open Library, Google Books, the Library of Congress, and Project Gutenberg. The reference-list checker flags any entry it cannot find in any of them.

Contact support

If something is broken, formatted incorrectly, or unclear, email citeory@clearkey.solutions. Please include the citation style you selected, the exact text you pasted, and what you expected — that is everything needed to reproduce and fix an issue.