Citations
Insert verified citations in the Dock Editor. Add a source by DOI or search, format in seven citation styles, and switch the whole document between styles in one move.
Citations are the reason a lot of people write in Dock. You add a real source, a marker appears at your claim, and the reference flows into the list at the end. Because every source is stored as structured data, you can reformat the whole document between styles without retyping a thing.
Put your cursor where the claim is, then open the citation search from the footer toolbar or press Cmd+Shift+C. From there you can:
- Paste a DOI to pull the exact reference for a paper.
- Search sources by title, author, or keyword across academic databases.
- Pick from your library of sources you have already saved.
Choose a source and Dock inserts the in-text marker where your cursor is and adds the full reference to the document. The citation and the writing are one motion, so a cited paper comes together as you write it rather than being assembled afterward.
The source search reaches across academic indexes, so the reference behind a claim is a record that exists, not a guess. You search, see the matching papers with their authors and years, and insert the right one. The same source can then be reused anywhere else in the document.
Dock formats citations in seven styles:
- APA
- MLA
- Chicago
- Harvard
- IEEE
- AMA
- Vancouver
Each style has its own rules for in-text markers and the reference list. Dock applies them so you do not have to format by hand.
Sources do not change between styles, only the formatting does. Because every reference is stored as structured data, you can switch the entire document from one style to another in a single action, and every marker and list entry reformats. When a journal wants a different style than your draft used, you change it once, not citation by citation.
- Save and organize sources in the Citation Library.
- Import an existing library from Zotero and Mendeley.
- Generate the reference list with Bibliography.