Precision tools
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It reads the bibliographic details out of your sources and formats them however you need — scholarly citation or wall label — so you stop retyping the same author and date in six different styles.
When to reach for it
Any time a source needs to appear in a bibliography, a footnote, a press release, or an object label — which, across a project, is constantly. The citation is never the interesting part of the work, but getting it wrong is one of the few things that reliably makes scholarship look careless. This is the tedium, handled.
Point it at a source
Choose a material and let it extract the bibliographic metadata — author, title, year, publisher, publication type — reading it out of the document rather than making you transcribe from the title page. It recognises what kind of source it is, so a journal article, a book, and a conference paper each get the fields that actually apply to them.
Extracted bibliographic metadata
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Give the extracted fields a glance before you format — a scan of an old catalogue can garble a date, and this is the moment to fix it once for every style.
Format it any way you need
From that one extraction, generate the citation in the format the moment calls for: APA, MLA, or Chicago for scholarly writing, BibTeX for a LaTeX bibliography, or the two curators actually live in — a press-release citation and a wall-label credit. The same source, correctly rendered for wherever it needs to appear.
One source, six citation formats
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Copy it where it belongs
Take the formatted citation straight into your essay, your bibliography, the exhibition graphics, or the release. Because it's generated from structured metadata, switching a whole project from one house style to another is a re-render, not a rewrite — the nightmare of reformatting a bibliography by hand simply doesn't happen.
Copying a formatted citation
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What it will — and won’t — do
It extracts the metadata and renders it correctly across six formats, turning an hour of finicky reformatting into a few seconds. It's not a substitute for your eye on the final proof — an OCR'd source can carry a wrong initial or a mis-scanned date, and the citation is only as good as the field it came from. Verify once at extraction; format freely forever after.
Extracting a source’s citation metadata costs roughly 1,000 tokens — and reformatting between styles afterward is effectively free.
What comes next
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Cite it once.
Format it anywhere.
Upload a source and get a clean citation in every format you need. Curatorial is free to start.
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