The citation tool for students. Mark any claim in your draft with [src]. ZeroCite searches PubMed, arXiv, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, and CrossRef, ranks the best matches, and builds a full references page for you.
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ZeroCite is built for the boring last mile of writing: turning a finished draft into a properly cited paper without disappearing into Google Scholar for two hours.
Paste your draft. Add [src] after any sentence that needs a citation.
Claude reads each claim in context, builds a targeted academic query, and pulls the best peer-reviewed match.
Review ranked results. Approve, skip, or swap. Get APA, MLA, Chicago, or IEEE formatted automatically.
Run by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and considered the gold standard for biomedical research, indexing 35M+ peer-reviewed citations. Best for medicine, biology, nursing, public health, neuroscience, and psychology papers.
A Cornell-hosted preprint server where papers are moderated but not peer-reviewed, so results are cutting-edge but unsettled. Best for CS, machine learning, physics, math, and statistics — fields where the freshest work lives here before formal publication.
A trusted cross-field index by the Allen Institute for AI covering ~200M papers; the index is reputable, but any individual paper's credibility still depends on its venue. Best for general academic search, finding highly-cited work, and tracing citation graphs.
An open, fully-curated catalog of the global research system (successor to Microsoft Academic Graph) with strong metadata and broad non-English coverage. Best for humanities and social-science searches and finding open-access versions outside the major Anglo-American journals.
The official DOI registry for scholarly publishers, making it authoritative for publication metadata — if a paper has a DOI, CrossRef knows about it. Best for humanities, history, literature, religion, and law journal articles and for verifying exact citation details.
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