Paste any messy reference list — RefRight parses it, applies the right style for APA, MLA, Vancouver, IEEE, AMA, Chicago, Harvard, or any of 54 journal-specific profiles, verifies every DOI against CrossRef, and flags retracted papers before you submit.
1. Smith J. Title of paper. Nature. 2020;580:100–5.
2. Brown R, Lee S. Comparative review of citation styles. Cell. 2019;178:720–35.
3. Wei X, et al. Disputed findings. The Lancet. 2018;391:105–10. Retracted
4. Incomplete — missing journal & year.
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Three core capabilities, designed for researchers, postdocs, medical writers, and editing professionals.
8 base styles (APA, MLA, Vancouver, Chicago, IEEE, AMA, Harvard) plus 54 journal-specific profiles — Nature, Cell, NEJM, Lancet, JAMA, IEEE Trans, and more. Switch between styles in one click.
See all styles →Auto-fill DOIs from CrossRef, flag missing fields with one-click fixes, and check every reference against the Retraction Watch database before you submit.
How it works →Install RefRight from Word's Add-ins Store on desktop or Word for the web. Find your bibliography automatically, format inline, see a side-by-side diff with the journal's style, and accept or reject changes per reference.
Get the add-in →Each journal has its own quirks: italicized titles in Nature, full first names in JAMA, square-bracketed citations in IEEE. RefRight encodes 54 of them as profiles you can apply in one click.
RefRight is available from the Add-ins Store in Microsoft Word for Microsoft 365 on Windows and Mac, supported desktop Word 2021/2024 versions, and Word for the web in Microsoft 365. Open it as a task pane to find and format references without leaving your document.
Paste journal or book references, choose a citation style, check DOIs and append a bibliography from the RefRight sidebar. A verified RefRight account is required.
The add-on is currently in testing. Public Google Workspace Marketplace installation is not yet available.
Google Docs helpPaste, drop, upload, or look up by identifier. Export to text, document, structured XML, or LaTeX-ready BibTeX.
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Paste a raw citation. RefRight expands abbreviated journals, applies the right title casing, preserves proper nouns and acronyms, and emits whatever output your workflow needs.
<ref id="ref1">
<mixed-citation publication-type="journal">
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<name><surname>Smith</surname><given-names>JA</given-names></name>
<name><surname>Jones</surname><given-names>KB</given-names></name>
</person-group>
<article-title>mRNA vaccine efficacy against COVID-19 ...</article-title>
<source>N Engl J Med</source>
<year>2022</year>
<volume>387</volume><issue>14</issue>
<fpage>1302</fpage><lpage>1315</lpage>
<pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1056/NEJMoa2209521</pub-id>
</mixed-citation>
</ref>
@article{smith2022mrna,
author = {Smith, John A and Jones, Karen B},
title = {{mRNA} vaccine efficacy against {COVID-19}
in sub-{Saharan} {Africa}: the {Alzheimer's}
comorbidity challenge},
journal = {N Engl J Med},
year = {2022},
volume = {387},
number = {14},
pages = {1302--1315},
doi = {10.1056/NEJMoa2209521}
}
Output as .docx with proper hanging indent, italic journal title, and clean Unicode dashes — ready to drop into the bibliography section of your manuscript.
Plus 54 journal-specific profiles. See all available styles →