Paste the contents of your .ris file — TY - JOUR blocks ended with ER - — and get a clean APA 7 reference list back. Works with EndNote, RefWorks, PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and most library database exports.
Tip: paste up to 100 entries at once. Plain-text references should be separated by blank lines. Try an example:
The Bulk Citation Converter handles every direction between major styles — and any of the 10,000+ CSL styles in between. A few of the most common conversions writers run into:
Switching disciplines or moving from a humanities course to a
social-science journal? Paste your MLA Works Cited list (in plain
text, BibTeX, or RIS) and the converter rewrites every entry as
APA 7 — author initials, sentence-case titles, italicized journal
names, and full https://doi.org/ links — in one click.
Going the other way? Drop in your APA reference list and get a properly formatted MLA 9 Works Cited, with full first names, title case, and the MLA container model applied to journals, anthologies, and websites.
Chicago notes-and-bibliography and Chicago author-date entries both convert cleanly to APA 7. The tool also handles APA → Chicago for history, theology, and humanities papers that require notes-and-bib formatting.
Harvard and APA share an author-date system but differ in punctuation, ampersand use, and DOI formatting. Paste a Harvard reference list to get a clean APA 7 version — or convert APA to Harvard if your institution uses the Harvard variant.
Export from Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote, or Google Scholar and paste
the file contents directly. The converter auto-detects BibTeX
(@article) and RIS (TY - JOUR) and
renders them in your target style.
Click More in the style picker for AMA, Vancouver, IEEE, Optica, ACS, Nature, Cell, and 10,000+ other journal styles backed by the Citation Style Language (CSL) registry.
Need a single citation rather than a bulk conversion? Paste a DOI, ISBN, URL, or title into the Citation Generator and get one fully formatted reference in any style.
Before converting a list, make sure every reference is real. The Citation Checker verifies each entry against Crossref, Semantic Scholar, and PubMed.
Missing a citation entirely? Find Source searches academic databases for peer-reviewed papers that support a claim.
Not sure which style your assignment wants? Compare APA vs MLA, APA vs Chicago, MLA vs Chicago, and Harvard vs APA.
The in-depth guides on APA, MLA, Chicago, and Harvard cover the rules behind each format the converter outputs.
Send a converted list straight to your Works Cited library to keep every project's reference list in one place — and re-export later in any style.
Same converter, different style pair. Pick the direction you need:
Paste a .ris file → MLA 9 Works Cited list.
Paste a .bib file and get APA 7 references back.
Switch an MLA Works Cited list to APA 7 in one paste.
Switch a Chicago bibliography (NB or author-date) to APA 7.
Switch a Harvard reference list to APA 7 in one paste.
RIS is the default export format for EndNote, RefWorks, and basically every library database — PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, ProQuest, JSTOR. If you've ever hit a 'Save citations' or 'Export' button in a database and gotten a .ris file, you know the format. The structure is line-oriented: TY - JOUR opens an entry (the type), AU - lines list authors, TI - is the title, JO - the journal, and ER - closes the entry.
Paste your .ris file contents directly — the whole file, or just the entries you want — and the converter parses every TY block into structured fields and renders each one in APA 7. TY - JOUR (journal article), TY - BOOK, TY - CHAP (book chapter), TY - CONF (conference paper), TY - THES (thesis), TY - RPRT (report), and the long tail of RIS reference types are all recognized.
.bib file from Zotero, Mendeley, JabRef, or Overleaf and paste the contents in. @article, @book, @inproceedings, @misc, and the long tail of BibTeX entry types are all recognized.TY - JOUR block and every entry parses.Most online tools handle one citation at a time. Fine if you have one reference. Nightmare if you have eighty. The Bulk Converter runs the whole list as a single pass, which is what gets you consistency: same date format, same author rule, same DOI prefix, same italicization across every entry. That's the thing reviewers actually notice. A list that's almost consistent reads worse than one that's clearly wrong.
Submitted to Nature, got a desk reject, redirecting to Cell? Different style guide. Paste the original reference list and reformat in the target journal's style without rewriting a single entry by hand.
Universities each have their own thesis style guide. Convert your finished bibliography from APA, MLA, or Chicago into your institution's required style in one paste.
Export .bib or .ris from your reference manager and convert the contents to a clean Works Cited list in your manuscript's style — no plug-in, no Word-add-in setup.
Co-authoring across fields? The medical co-author wants AMA, the engineering co-author wants IEEE, the humanities co-author wants Chicago. Convert each section into the agreed-on house style for the target venue in one click.
Re-using a reference list from an earlier paper but the journal has updated to APA 7? Bulk-convert APA 6 → APA 7 to pick up the sentence-case titles, full DOI URLs, and updated author conventions.
Have a reading list in BibTeX from a course? Convert it to APA or MLA so you can drop it into your own bibliography as you write — no transcription, no errors.
Yes. EndNote's default RIS export is the canonical form and parses cleanly. PubMed RIS exports include MeSH terms and other NLM-specific tags that get ignored (they don't affect the citation). Scopus and Web of Science exports include extra fields like affiliations and abstract — also ignored, also no effect on the output.
DOI fields (DO - or DI - ) get rendered in APA's https://doi.org/ URL format. URL fields (UR - ) appear as-is when there's no DOI — APA prefers DOIs over URLs, so when both are present the DOI wins. Bare DOIs (no https://doi.org/ prefix) get the prefix added automatically.
Yes — the parser is style-agnostic. Click any pill in the target style picker before converting. Or use the RIS to MLA converter if you want MLA specifically.
Harvard and APA share an author-date system but disagree on punctuation, ampersand use, the order of elements, and whether DOIs come as bare strings or full URLs. Paste any Harvard list and the converter normalizes to APA 7. APA to Harvard works the other way if your institution uses one of the Harvard variants (Cite Them Right, Anglia Ruskin, others).
Yes. Export from Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote, JabRef, Overleaf, or any database that supports BibTeX or RIS, and paste the file contents in. The converter auto-detects the format — looking for @article or @book on the BibTeX side, TY - JOUR on the RIS side — and renders the entries in your chosen style.
Click More in the style picker. You'll get AMA, ACS, IEEE, Vancouver, Optica, Nature, Cell, JAMA, BMJ, plus 10,000+ other journal- and discipline-specific styles. All backed by the Citation Style Language (CSL) registry, the same registry Zotero and Mendeley use under the hood.
For well-formatted bibliographies in any major style, accuracy sits in the high 90s. Edge cases that sometimes want a touch-up: very old reference lists with hand-typed inconsistencies, non-Latin-script entries (Cyrillic, Chinese), house styles that mix numbered and author-date conventions in the same list. The converter shows you the parsed fields alongside the formatted output, so you can catch an entry that looks off before it ships.
Practically no. Lists of 100+ entries are routine. For very long bibliographies (500+), break them into batches of a few hundred. The response stays snappy and you can spot any parser hiccups before they propagate. Each batch is independent — no ordering or consistency penalty for splitting.
No. Pasted bibliographies live in memory while the request runs and are gone once the response returns. We don't retain the input, the parsed records, or the formatted output beyond the active session. Nothing trains a model. The privacy policy spells the specifics out.
The converter runs on the citation processor itself — no AI credits required. Conversion is free. You may see a prompt to sign in if you want to save converted lists to your Works Cited library, but the conversion stays free either way. Top-up packs for the AI-powered tools live on the pricing page.
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