Citation Library
Save and organize sources in the Dock Editor. Build a personal citation library, group sources into collections, deduplicate, and add sources by PDF upload and extraction.
The citation library is your personal store of sources. Save a reference once and reuse it across documents, group related sources into collections, and add new sources by uploading the PDF itself. The library panel sits beside your writing so a source is always one click from the page.
Any source you find through the citation search can be saved to your library. A saved source carries its full structured record, so it formats correctly in any of the seven citation styles and is ready to insert into any document without searching again.
Group sources into collections to keep a large library navigable, for example one collection per paper or per topic. A source can belong to a collection without being locked to it, so the same reference can support more than one project.
When you save a source that is already in your library, Dock recognizes it rather than creating a second copy. Deduplication keeps the library clean, so a paper you cite in three documents is one record, not three.
You can build the library from PDFs you already have:
- Upload a PDF of a paper, and Dock extracts its reference details so you can cite it.
- The extracted record joins your library like any other source, ready to insert and format.
This is the fast path for sources that live on your disk rather than in a database.
Open the citation library panel from the editor to browse, search, and insert your saved sources. Because the panel is alongside the document, you can pull a source into a claim without leaving the page. To insert a citation, see Citations.
If you already keep references in a reference manager, you do not have to rebuild them here. See Zotero and Mendeley to import an existing library.