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9 citation styles — APA · MLA · Chicago · IEEE · Vancouver · AMA · Harvard · Turabian · ISNAD·Writes in 50+ languages·8-language interface, full RTL·Scanned-PDF OCR·GDPR compliant
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Hours lost scanning sources

Finding the right passage across dozens of PDFs eats the time you meant to spend writing.

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AI that invents citations

General chatbots fabricate references that look real and fall apart under review.

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Formatting nightmares

Nine citation styles, footnotes, bibliographies — one wrong comma and the whole list is off.

Quilpen was built to end all three.

Plate I · The proof

Click a sentence. See the source.

Quilpen never invents a citation — it can't. Every [n] marker resolves to a highlighted passage in the PDF you uploaded.

Your draftFol. 12r

Myasthenia gravis is an antibody-mediated disorder in which autoantibodies block the acetylcholine receptor at the neuromuscular junction[3] , reducing the muscle's response to nerve signals.

Gilhus, N. E. (2016) Verified · p. 214

In the most common form of the disease, immunoglobulin G antibodies bind the acetylcholine receptor at the postsynaptic membrane, causing receptor loss and impaired neuromuscular transmission , which produces the characteristic fatigable weakness.

Real page numbers · printed-page aware · works on scanned books

Plate II · Source chat

Ask your library a question.

Not the whole web — your shelf. Quilpen answers from the PDFs you uploaded and shows you the page behind every line.

Ask your library4 sources open

What produces the fatigable weakness in myasthenia gravis?

Autoantibodies bind the acetylcholine receptor at the postsynaptic membrane, reducing the number of functional receptors [Gilhus 2016, p. 214]. With fewer receptors, repeated nerve stimulation exhausts transmission, so the weakness worsens through the day and eases with rest [Vincent 2010, p. 1801].

 Grounded in 2 of your sources · nothing invented

Plate III · Your shelf

Every source, read and indexed.

Drop in a PDF — born-digital, scanned, or Arabic-script. Quilpen pulls the metadata, reads the pages, and shelves it, searchable.

The librarySorted by author
Gilhus, N. E. (2016) N Engl J Med14 pp.IndexedEN
Vincent, A. (2010) The Lancet22 pp.IndexedEN
Ibn Sīnā (1025) Canon of MedicinescannedOCRAR
Drachman, D. B. (1994) N Engl J Med9 pp.IndexedEN

Metadata & a summary written for each · search your own shelf

Plate IV · The roadmap

Plan the whole thesis, chapter by chapter.

Lay out the argument as a table of contents, then draft into it. Quilpen keeps every chapter in order and tracks what is done.

ContentsA dissertation
iIntroduction✓ Drafted
iiLiterature reviewWriting…
iiiMethodsPlanned
ivResultsPlanned
vDiscussionPlanned
viConclusionPlanned

Specimen · The output

What comes out is submission-ready.

DOCX or PDF in a thesis format, with the bibliography built for you — in whichever of the nine styles your department wants.

…the weakness characteristically worsens with sustained activity and improves after rest, a pattern that distinguishes it from most other neuromuscular disorders [3].

References

[3]  Gilhus, N. E. (2016). Myasthenia gravis. New England Journal of Medicine, 375(26), 2570–2581.

Gilhus, Nils Erik. “Myasthenia Gravis.” New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 375, no. 26, 2016, pp. 2570–2581.

APA · MLA · Chicago · IEEE · Vancouver · AMA · Harvard · Turabian · ISNAD

How it works

Three steps to a cited draft

I

Upload your PDFs

Drop your sources into the library. Quilpen extracts and indexes every one, scanned or born-digital.

II

Draft with citations

Give it a topic or a roadmap. It writes from your sources and cites each claim as it goes.

III

Export with bibliography

Verify the citations, then export to DOCX or PDF with the reference list built for you.

Who it's for

Built for real academic work

Master's & PhD thesis

Keep a long project organized chapter by chapter, with every source traceable to its page.

Journal article

Draft to a target style and export a submission-ready manuscript with a clean bibliography.

Literature review

Synthesize across many papers at once, with each claim anchored to the study it came from.

Pricing

Simple, credit-based pricing

One subsection draft is about 600–750 credits. Pick the allowance that matches how much you write.

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What's a credit? One subsection draft ≈ 600–750 credits. A full book runs about 27,000.

Questions

Questions, answered

No — it's structurally impossible. Quilpen only cites passages retrieved from the PDFs you uploaded, and every citation links to the exact page so you can verify it yourself.

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