Generate a reference list
Build your full reference list from your library documents.
Select a folder of uploaded papers and Anara returns a formatted reference list in your citation style, built from the metadata of each document. Use it at the end of a paper when the only thing left is the bibliography.
Prompt
A PhD student in educational leadership needs an APA 7 reference list for the 60 papers in her dissertation folder.
Prompt
Generate APA 7 citations for all papers in my dissertation folder. Return the full reference list in alphabetical order by first author's last name. If any citation looks incomplete due to missing metadata, flag it separately at the bottom with a note on what is missing.What to add to your library
- Required: your library or the specific folder containing the papers you need cited.
- Optional: your preferred citation format (APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE, CSE, ACS, Vancouver, AMA, ASA). Anara uses your workspace default otherwise.
- Optional: a list of the papers you actually cited, so Anara generates only those.
What you get
- A formatted reference list, sorted alphabetically, one citation per paper.
- Incomplete citations flagged at the bottom with a note on the missing metadata.
- Citations grounded in your uploaded papers, not a model's memory of titles.
Follow-ups
Switch to a different citation style.
Prompt
Regenerate the same reference list in Vancouver format for a biomedical journal submission. Number the entries in the order they appear in the text.Export as BibTeX for a LaTeX document.
Prompt
Export this reference list as BibTeX. Return one entry per paper with the correct field names: author, title, journal, year, volume, pages, doi.Tips
- Name the style with its version: APA 7, not just APA. Anara applies whichever version you name.
- For numbered styles like Vancouver or IEEE, say whether to number by order of first citation. Otherwise Anara defaults to alphabetical.
- Before running a full folder, check the document details panel for papers with incomplete processing. Abstract-only imports and scanned PDFs produce sparse metadata.
- Spot-check five or six citations against the originals, focusing on page ranges and DOIs.