Last updated on 12 May 2026
RefMe is an online and mobile tool that makes it possible to create the world's simplest bibliographies for all your study or research documents.
RefMe is undoubtedly a good idea to save time in the always delicate exercise of bibliography. RefMe takes the form of a website and a mobile application. Ideal for use in the office, home or library. Registration is free and immediate and you can immediately create your first bibliography.
RefMe offers you an internal search engine that will explore several hundred bibliographic databases. A particularly fast and powerful search engine. Once you have identified your reference, all you have to do is click on it to add it to your own bibliography.
You can search for and add a complete book, chapter, passage, newspaper article, web reference, encyclopedia entry, blog, film or video ….and many other sources. And if you cannot find the reference in the search engine, you can always add it yourself by hand. Practical.
All the more practical as RefMe goes automatically format the quote. And if you don't like the style, you can always change it. RefMe offers no less than 3600 styles of different bibliographies.
Real added value of the service, the RefMe mobile app. It runs on iPhone, Android and even windowsPhone. It offers the same functions as the desktop app with which it will sync automatically. The most mobile is a scanner function. This will allow you to use it to scan the barcode of the book you wish to add to your bibliography. In project, the possibility to scan excerpts of … text
Once you have created your bibliography, all you have to do is export it and insert it in your publication.
RefMe is a free service.
Link: RefMe
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Thank you for this presentation of a tool that can relieve students who are not writing a dissertation. Just one remark: if I have seen correctly, there is no free search option. You must therefore know in advance whether you are looking for an article in a newspaper or in a book or whether you are looking for a book, etc.). There is also no possibility of classifying references into categories, and you cannot add keywords (you will tell me that there is Zotero if you want to do this kind of thing). If students want to use this tool, they must be encouraged to read the references that appear; the temptation will be great to trust the tool too much and no longer know how to write a reference without the help of these types of tools.
Hello Eva,
Your remark seems very correct to me. The limits you point to are quite real. The risks of trusting the tools too much too.
These tools must be there to facilitate, to enlighten …certainly not to annihilate reflection and critical sense.
Thank you very much for calling him back.