Finding, Editing, and Deleting Citations

Once you've added citations to your paper, PERRLA gives you tools to find, edit, and delete them directly from the References & Citations side panel.

Showing and Hiding Citations

By default, PERRLA hides citations inside their reference in the References & Citations side panel to keep the view clean and easy to navigate.

Click a reference to show or hide its citations. You can also click the three dots next to the reference and choose Show Citations or Hide Citations.

Finding a Citation in Your Paper

Once you have more than a few citations, it can be difficult to find where they are in your paper. PERRLA can find any citation for you. Here's how:

1. Click the three dots next to the citation you want to find. 
2. Click Show in Paper. 

PERRLA scrolls to that citation in your paper and highlights it.

Editing a Citation

Because citations are locked inside Content Controls, you'll need to edit them through PERRLA.

1. Click the three dots next to the citation. 
2. Click Edit Citation. 
3. Update the citation's information. 
4. Click Update Citation. 

PERRLA automatically updates your citation.

Note: In PERRLA Online, you can also right-click a citation directly in your paper to choose Edit Citation without opening the panel.

Deleting a Citation

You can also use PERRLA to delete citations from your paper. When you delete a citation through PERRLA, it's automatically replaced with the text "(CITATION DELETED)" so you always know where it was and don't accidentally plagiarize content.

1. Click the three dots next to the citation. 
2. Click Delete Citation. 

PERRLA deletes the citation and replaces it with the (CITATION DELETED) text.