Create and manage citations in Google Docs

October 16, 2020

Google has announced a feature that will help you add, manage, and format academic citations in Google Docs. You can easily insert in-text citations and create a bibliography in the MLA, APA, or Chicago (author-date) styles. Source types supported include books, book sections, websites, journal articles, and newspaper articles.

Google Doc showing an essay with the title "Report"; on the right side, there is the Citations menu where you can select a Format style and Add citation sources

To access the citations features, click Tools, and select Citations from the drop-down menu.

To learn more about using citations in Google Docs, see Google’s Add citations and a bibliography.

According to Google, this feature began showing up in U-M Google on October 15, 2020 and should take 3 days or longer to become fully visible.