About ReFindit
ReFindit searches several bibliographic databases at once and turns what you find into a ready-made citation.
- SearchType a few words, a whole citation, a DOI or a PubMed Central ID, or search by author, year, title and journal.
- CompareResults from all sources come together; a work found in several databases is shown once, with a badge for each source.
- CiteFormat any result in one of 2,400 citation styles, copy it, or download it as BibTeX or RIS for your reference manager.
Sources
| Source | What it covers |
|---|---|
| CrossRef | Journal articles, books and chapters with a CrossRef DOI |
| OpenAlex | An open index of scholarly works, with open-access and citation information |
| DataCite | Datasets, software and other research outputs with a DataCite DOI |
| PubMed | Biomedical and life-science literature, with links to free full text in PubMed Central |
| Mendeley | The Mendeley reference catalogue |
| BHL articles BHL books | Biodiversity Heritage Library: historical natural-history literature (search by author, year, title, journal) |
Where it is used
ReFindit is a standalone service at refindit.org and the reference search inside the ARPHA Writing Tool. Other applications can use the same search and formatting through the API.
