Cite effortlessly and format your bibliography—right where you are writing.
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Lean Library Workspace makes referencing simpler for researchers, students, and academic writers. With the Lean Library Workspace add-on for Google Docs™, you can easily cite references saved to your Workspace projects, choose from over 7,000 citation styles—including APA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE, MLA, and Vancouver—and generate a bibliography effortlessly. 

It’s a powerful, time-saving tool for anyone writing research papers, theses, or funding proposals. 

Features include: 
- Search for references in your Lean Library Workspace projects and easily insert them into your document 
- Add project notes alongside your references 
- Edit citation details manually if needed  
- Format your bibliography using thousands of citation styles 

New to Lean Library? Download the browser extension at https://www.leanlibrary.com to unlock the full experience.

Don’t have a Lean Library Workspace account? Sign up at https://workspace.leanlibrary.com
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Celise Dawnson
August 23, 2025
While i find the main site really good in organization, I am also after the intext citation formatting which seems to onIy be available in the add-on. But, I cannot sign in and use the add on at all in G-docs. First, even if I manually input my registered account's email and pass, nothing happens and it just stays on the add-on's sign in page. Second option for linked google accounts is It keeps saying I still have multiple accounts even if I logged out and even thought of deleting the other accounts, but sadly that is not self-done and there's no option for account deletion in the main website. Exact phrase is: "this action is not supported while logged into multiple accounts in the same domain or multiple consumer accounts. Please log out and try again." Last option is SSO, tried adding the gmail but nothing happened again. This might be due to the new rebranding, but I hope it gets fixed. I believe in this add-on and the main websites potential (suggestion: a summarize AI table verview of abstract, main methods, and concludsion would be a great addition for the main website which was also adapted by sites like Scispace, Elicit, and Ai2)
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Abiodun Ismail
August 25, 2024
Fantastic
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