Collect your research. The references write themselves.
A research board for students. Paste in articles, images, quotes and videos, arrange them your way, and your Harvard bibliography is ready when the essay is.
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becomes
Smith, J. (2025) ‘Cargo bikes take over the school run’, The Guardian, 14 March. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/… (Accessed: 8 November 2026).
- Author
- Year
- Title
- Publisher
- Date
- Accessed
From open tabs to a finished reference list
Most referencing tools start when you’ve finished reading. Happy Citing starts the moment you find something.
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Paste what you find
Drop a link, a screenshot or a video onto your board. The card keeps the source, the image and the details for the reference, ready for you to check.
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Arrange it your way
Group cards into sections, link ideas with connectors, and build your own frameworks: a mood board, a positioning map or a grid of themes.
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Hand it in properly referenced
Copy your Harvard lists straight into your essay, or export the whole board as a PDF with every image credited.
Three lists, kept up to date for you
Harvard asks for different lists for different jobs. Happy Citing keeps all three, so nothing gets lost between your research and your final draft.
Bibliography
Everything you read along the way.
Jones, A. (2024) Streets for people. London: Island Press.
Reference list
Only the sources you actually quoted. Tick a quote as used and it moves here.
Smith, J. (2025) ‘Cargo bikes take over the school run’, The Guardian, 14 March.
List of illustrations
Every image you use, numbered and credited.
Figure 1: Cargo bike outside a primary school. Source: Smith (2025).
Know which sources will hold up
Each source gets a traffic light with its own shape, so weak evidence stands out before your marker spots it, whether or not you can tell the colours apart.
See your research, not just list it
Switch any board between views without losing where things are.
Read it your way
Choose your own board colour, a reading font such as Lexend, bigger text and wider spacing. Helpful for dyslexia and visual stress, and saved to your account.
Export a PDF for your portfolio
Boards, sections, all three lists and a source table, with every image kept and credited. Landscape for presenting, portrait for printing.
For lecturers and courses
Research boards make students’ thinking visible. Share a board with a group, set up a framework for a brief, and see sources and their quality before the deadline, not after it.
- Invite students to a board as editors or viewers.
- Build a framework once, such as stages, PESTLE or themes, and reuse it across a cohort.
- Traffic lights help students judge sources for themselves.
- Screenshots and images are saved with the board, so they’re still there when a website changes.
- Harvard style throughout, with consistent formatting for every source type.
Free to use. Kept going by people who find it useful.
Happy Citing is free for students. If it saved you an evening of formatting references, you can chip in towards hosting and new features. Pay what you like, as a one-off.