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CiteFormat is a citation converter that takes a reference in any common style and reformats it into APA 7, GB/T 7714, BibTeX, or MLA. You reach for it whenever a manuscript, thesis, or bibliography needs to switch style guides without re-typing every entry. It is aimed at students and researchers who move between formatting rules.
The target selector offers APA 7, GB/T 7714, BibTeX, and MLA. The input is tolerant of messy source text, so you do not need a perfectly formatted starting reference. If your field uses one of these four styles, CiteFormat covers the round trip between them.
Yes. CiteFormat returns copy-ready text with the punctuation and ordering correct for the chosen style, so you can paste it straight into a reference list. No login is required to convert a single citation, which keeps the step fast.
Batch conversion of many references at once is on the roadmap and not yet available in the free single-reference flow. Today you convert one reference per run; the Plus tier is where batch and Zotero import are planned. For a long bibliography, convert entries one at a time for now.
No account is required to convert a single citation — you paste, pick a style, and copy the result. This keeps the tool usable in a moment of need, such as right before a submission. Account-based tiers add batch and import features on top.
It is for students and researchers who switch between style guides — APA for one venue, GB/T 7714 for a Chinese journal, BibTeX for LaTeX, MLA for another. If you maintain a bibliography by hand or fight formatting errors before deadlines, CiteFormat removes that chore. It suits anyone who cites sources and hates manual reformatting.