Most references get typed in Word, not a reference manager. The CiteStamp add-in
puts the literature search inside Word, and checks a whole bibliography for citations that were
never written — both free, unlimited, with no account. A Pro key adds the
part that writes: the citation at your cursor, and the references list at the end.
Your draft never touches our servers. Search goes straight from the task
pane to OpenAlex, citation-health to OpenAlex, Crossref, and CiteStamp’s public graph, and
citations are written into your local Word document through Office.js. The same client-direct
design as the web picker and the Overleaf wrapper.
What it does
Search and stage — search open scholarly metadata, click a result, and it is staged with
a correctly-formatted citation like (Curie et al., 1898) ready to read
off. Free.
Check a bibliography — paste your references and see, per entry, whether it resolves to
a real work, whether it has recorded refutations in the graph, and whether it is marked
retracted. Free, unlimited, and identical to what a Pro key gets.
Write into the document — drop the in-text citation at your cursor, and a formatted
References section at the end. This is the part that is
Pro, at $35 a year.
Install it (developer sideload)
The add-in is not in the Office store yet — install is by sideload, which takes about a
minute. It opens its panel as soon as you add it, and searching and checking work immediately —
there is no account to create. Writing into the document asks for a Pro key, which you paste into
the panel.
In Word (desktop), go to Insert → Add-ins → My Add-ins → Upload My Add-in,
and pick the manifest.xml you downloaded.
In Word on the web, use Home → Add-ins → More Add-ins → My Add-ins →
Upload My Add-in.
The CiteStamp panel opens on the right. Search a work in the Cite tab and click it to
stage it; paste a Pro key under References to write it at your cursor. The Check tab
never asks for one.