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Citation Style Detector

Detect mixed citation styles in a reference list — APA, Vancouver, MLA, Chicago, IEEE

All Citation & References
Citation samples (one per line)

Detection results

Results will appear here after detection.

How it works

Uses pattern matching on structural markers: numeric prefixes, parenthetical year positions, DOI formats, and field ordering to identify APA, Vancouver, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and more.

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BibTeX Case Guardian

Wraps ALLCAPS tokens in braces so BibTeX preserves capitalisation.

Journal Field Stripper

Strips non-required fields from .bib entries for clean submissions.

Group Citation Sorter

Sorts grouped in-text citations numerically, e.g. [3,1,2] → [1,2,3].