Rephrasa and EasyBib side by side
| Rephrasa | EasyBib (as published) | |
|---|---|---|
| Styles | APA 7, MLA 9, Chicago 18 and 17, Harvard (Cite Them Right), IEEE, AMA 11 | "thousands of styles, including MLA, APA, Chicago and Harvard" |
| How you add a source | DOI, URL, ISBN, manual form (9 source types) | Guides for website, books, journal articles, YouTube and more |
| Advertising | No ads at launch, no advertising cookies | Consent centre lists targeting cookies from advertising partners |
| Export | Copy with formatting, .txt, .ris, .bib | Google Drive or Microsoft Word |
| Paid plan | Citations free; Premium only for paraphrasing | Price not shown on the fetched page |
MLA works cited, the easy way
Most EasyBib users start with MLA. Rephrasa uses the official MLA 9th edition CSL style: paste an ISBN, DOI or URL, check the core elements, and add the entry. Sort the list A to Z and copy it into your essay with italics intact. The works cited generator page shows the page layout; the MLA citation generator page explains the core elements.
Privacy and storage
At launch Rephrasa has no advertising partners, and your citations never reach analytics. The bibliography lives in your browser on this device; nothing is uploaded. That also means you should export or copy it before you clear your browser data.
When EasyBib may suit you better
- You need a style beyond Rephrasa's six families.
- You cite source types such as images, films or interviews with a guided form.
- You want to save to Google Drive, or you already use EasyBib's other writing tools.
Rephrasa fits better if you want MLA and APA citations plus IEEE or AMA, free and without ads at launch, with a paraphraser for the writing step.
Paraphrase, then cite
After you cite a source, you usually write about it. The free paraphrasing tool rewrites your notes in Academic, Simple or Formal mode while keeping citations in place, so the in-text citation you copied stays exactly where you put it.
From EasyBib habits to Rephrasa
If you are used to choosing a source type first, open the manual form and pick one of nine types. If you are used to pasting a link, paste it in the main box; the generator detects DOIs, ISBNs and URLs automatically. Either way you see the formatted reference before you add it, and the list under the tool works like a project: sort it, edit an entry, or clear it.
There is no folder system and no cloud sync, because nothing leaves your device. For long-term projects, export .ris and keep the file with your drafts.
Choosing between MLA and APA
Humanities courses usually ask for MLA; psychology, education and many social sciences ask for APA. The two differ in where the date goes (end in MLA, after the author in APA), how titles are capitalised and how the in-text citation looks: (Gleick 23) in MLA, (Gleick, 1987, p. 23) in APA. Switch styles in the menu and compare both before you decide.
Citations and academic integrity
A formatted reference list shows your reader where your ideas came from. It does not replace in-text citations, quotation marks for copied words, or your own analysis. Rephrasa does not offer plagiarism checking or AI detection; it helps you cite correctly and write clearly.
Citing on a phone between classes
The generator works the same on a phone. Copy a DOI from a library app or a URL from your browser, paste it into the box, glance at the preview and add it. Your list waits in that phone's browser until you open it again; to finish the essay on a laptop, export the list or copy it into a shared document.
Small screens make long references hard to proofread, so do the final check of author names and years on the computer where you write the essay.
Group projects
Because the list lives on one device, group members cannot edit it together. A simple routine works: each person cites their own sources, exports a .ris file, and one person imports all files into a shared reference manager, or everyone pastes formatted entries into the shared document and sorts the final list once.