Citations

About this app

Citations’ user interface was designed to be simple and easy to use. Just pick a format from the sidebar, fill out the fields, and tap one button to format the website citation properly. The entire process is seamless and quick, with zero latency or load times. It’s designed beautifully for Apple platforms following Apple Human Interface Guidelines and has support for the latest Apple technologies. Citations runs without an internet connection, too. This means you can cite your sources wherever you may be without worrying about page load times. It works, always. And the best part: Citations is free forever, with no ads, trackers, analytics, or paywalls. It’s made to help you do your best work, and that’s it. It prioritizes simplicity, beauty, and versatility. It’s privacy-conscious in every way — your citations are yours and yours only. Citations isn’t a reference manager, it’s purely a citation creator that generates citations quickly, so its user interface feels un-cluttered and intuitive. It puts privacy and simplicity above all else. Citations is made by an independent developer, with no VC backing, tip jars, or creepy upsells. Beautiful, simple, powerful, and made to help students — that’s Citations. Available on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro.

This release includes important updates to improve the reliability and accessibility of Citations. Here’s what’s new. - You can now copy a citation using a keyboard shortcut: Shift-Command-C. This shortcut works when the finished citation is displayed. On iPadOS, it is also displayed in the menu bar. This shortcut doesn’t interfere with Command-C, the system copy command. - User input is now trimmed of whitespace automatically before creating a citation. This means that if you have spaces or tabs before or after text you enter, they will be automatically removed when the citation is created. You will no longer have to do this manually. - The Clear button now resets the Date Published field. - The beginning of each word in the Website Title field is now automatically capitalized. - Reduced the size of the app by a few megabytes. - The author’s first name and last name fields have now been modified to improve autocorrect’s reliability. - Buttons throughout the app have been updated for better VoiceOver accessibility. - Support for large Dynamic Type sizes has been improved in the Welcome to Citations screen and privacy policy. - Auto-capitalization and autocorrection have been disabled in the URL field. - Added a VoiceOver label to the Create button to clarify how to enable it. - Reduced the number of VoiceOver swipes necessary to progress through the Welcome to Citations screen. - Added an explanatory tooltip to the No Publication Date toggle for clarification on iPadOS. - Modified some verbiage in the Welcome to Citations screen for clarity. - Removed the VoiceOver label for the Citations icon in the About screen. - For power users: The fields now support adding custom Markdown, such as links, italics, and boldface. Just enter the Markdown in the text field, and it will be properly rendered and copied to your clipboard. - Many, many changes internally to help the app run more reliably years into the future. These changes will help me add more features quickly, too. (Nerds: I completely rewrote the citation formatting engine.) This update was quite a lot of work to put together, so if you find Citations useful, feel free to leave a rating. Thanks for using Citations!

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