Cital focuses on creating properly formatted academic citations from paper identifiers. It is catalogued under Reference management & literature discovery on PulseGate.

Cital is a consumer product built for students, researchers, and academics.

What platforms does Cital run on?

Cital runs on the web and embeddable surfaces.

Is Cital still maintained?

Unverified. Cital has not been re-checked since it entered the index, so there is no finding either way — and only a positive finding would say otherwise.

Cital is developed by Sumit Banik.

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Cital

Name: Cital
Author: Sumit Banik

mozilla.orgReference management & literature discovery

Cital is a Firefox browser extension that generates citations from a paper's DOI. It supports APA, BibTeX, MLA, Harvard, and Vancouver formatting styles for students and researchers.

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Overview

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Cital is a Reference management & literature discovery project. It focuses on creating properly formatted academic citations from paper identifiers. It is built as a consumer product for students, researchers, and academics. Cital costs nothing to use. It ships for the web and embeddable surfaces.

Behind Cital is Sumit Banik, and it first shipped in 2020. Key capabilities include DOI lookup, APA citations, and bibTeX citations. The interface is available in 32 languages, including Czech, German, and Greek.

Summary written by a language model from the project’s public pages.

DOI lookup
APA citations
BibTeX citations
MLA citations
Harvard citations
Vancouver citations

Built with & integrations

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Trust & compliance

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Indexing history

What PulseGate has recorded for this listing

Indexed9 Sept · 23:11 UTC
Cital - Citation Generator verified via Firefox Add-ons
Source: Firefox Add-ons · Open

Frequently asked questions about Cital

What is Cital?: Cital focuses on creating properly formatted academic citations from paper identifiers. It is catalogued under Reference management & literature discovery on PulseGate.
Who is Cital for?: Cital is a consumer product built for students, researchers, and academics.
Does Cital have a free plan?: Yes — Cital is free to use.
What platforms does Cital run on?: Cital runs on the web and embeddable surfaces.
Is Cital still maintained?: Unverified. Cital has not been re-checked since it entered the index, so there is no finding either way — and only a positive finding would say otherwise.
Who develops Cital?: Cital is developed by Sumit Banik.
How long has Cital been around?: Cital first shipped in 2020.
What languages does Cital support?: The interface is available in 32 languages, including Czech, German, and Greek.

At a glance

Pricing: Free
Platforms: Web
First seen: 9 Sept 2026
Built for: students, researchers, and academics
Model: B2C
Solves: Creating properly formatted academic citations from paper identifiers.

Registered as

Firefox Add-ons: cital-citation-generator

Developer

Sumit Banik

Index record

Indexed: 9 Sept 2026
Lifecycle: Alive
First seen: Sept 2026
Last seen: 9 Sept 2026

Identity audit (13)

Slug: cital-citation-generator-mozilla-org
Lifecycle state recorded: 9 Sept 2026
Verification state: Indexed for public listing
Listing state: Listed: yes
Index status: Included in index
Latest evidence snapshot: 9 Sept 2026
Timeline basis: Indexed-at chronology (no inferred launch/funding milestones).
Name from: Derived from the project's own page and URL.
Category from: Assigned by a language model.
Summary from: Written by a language model from public pages.
Languages from: Detected by a language model, checked against the page's own declaration.
Last updated: 9 Sept 2026
Canonical URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cital-citation-generator

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