Free citation tool

Cite as you research.

Turn any page you read into a verified, correctly formatted reference — filed into your bibliography automatically.

Check my referencing Install Solas

Free during the research preview. Runs locally in your browser.

See how Solas works
While you research

You read it. Solas references it.

Open a journal, book or article and Solas appears in the corner — ready to turn whatever you're reading into a complete, correctly formatted reference.

Reference ready

One click. No citation clean-up.

No hunting for authors, dates or publishers. No wrestling with Harvard formatting — just a finished reference, ready to use.

Checked, not guessed

Verified before you cite it.

Solas checks the author, date, publisher and DOI against trusted academic databases — helping stop broken or fabricated references from slipping into your work.

From here on

Your bibliography builds itself.

Every source you open is captured, verified, and filed in your library as you read — so by the time you start writing, your reference list is already taking shape.

The Chrome extension

Right where you're reading.

Open a journal, book, or article and Solas appears in the corner. One click writes a perfect reference — and checks it before it ever reaches your essay.

Add to Chrome — free Works on 40+ academic publishers

Interactive example

What is Solas?

Cite without breaking flow

Generate references directly from the page you're reading.

Check the source before you use it

See whether the source is current, relevant, authoritative and accurate.

Save everything as you research

Build your reference list automatically instead of rebuilding it at the end.

What Solas checks
Word documents PDFs Harvard (Cite Them Right) Single-author and multi-author citations Institutional acronyms (ONS, OECD, IMF…) Same-year disambiguation (2023a / 2023b)
The framework

Know what to trust.

Every source is scored against the four pillars markers care about. The grading you'll have to defend in your essay — done before you cite.

Currency

How recent is the source, and is its evidence still standing? Solas weights currency against source type.

Relevance

Does the source speak to its claim? Subject area, publisher specialisation, and editorial intent.

Authority

Who wrote it and who published it? Cross-checked against recognised publishers and predatory databases.

Accuracy

Retraction records, citation counts, and Unpaywall verification. Concerns surface as plain annotations.

How it works

Three steps. Page to citation.

1

Open Solas on any page

Side panel or in-page Glance bar. Works on news sites, journal databases, books, theses, and PDFs.

2

Click Cite this page

Solas extracts the metadata, cross-references it, and writes a verified Harvard reference.

3

Save to your project

File the citation under a project. Highlight passages to save quotes alongside, clickable back to the source.

Free during the research preview

Catch them before they catch you.

No card. No usage limits. No waitlist.