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Settings & Privacy

Open RefCopy’s settings from the gear icon. Everything here is optional — the defaults are sensible, and you can change any of it whenever you like.

The side panel

Side panel controls whether RefCopy appears beside academic pages. Leave it on for the usual one-click experience; turn it off if you’d rather keep RefCopy tucked away and open it only when you want it.

Google Scholar

Two toggles control the Google Scholar features:

  • Beautification — refine the results page and highlight your search terms.
  • One-click citation — add copy buttons to each result. After changing this one, refresh the Scholar tab for it to take effect.

Crossref Polite Pool email

This optional field takes an email address, and it’s worth a word of explanation. Crossref — the service RefCopy queries for article details — offers a faster, steadier lane for requests that include a contact email, which it calls the polite pool. Adding yours can make metadata load more reliably.

Your address stays on your device. RefCopy never collects or stores it; it travels only to Crossref, attached to each request so they can reach you if they ever need to. Leave the field blank and RefCopy simply makes ordinary requests.

Dark mode

RefCopy follows light and dark themes, so it sits comfortably alongside whatever you’re reading.

Your data

There’s no account and no sign-in, and your use of RefCopy is anonymous. Your settings and your chosen citation style stay on your own device — not on a server somewhere.

Next: Put it all together in the Quick start, or browse the FAQ.