EasyBib

This website used to be a good resource for creating citations and bibliographies for research projects, but now it is complete garbage. The greedy scumbags behind this website took note of the high amount of traffic from students, and took advantage of them all by placing as many advertisements as they possibly could on the website.

"Well, that's understandable, they're just trying to make some money. What's so bad about that? If you don't want the ads, use adblock!"

You see, that's where the biggest problem with the scummy greediness of the website comes in. The slimy rich $#*!s behind this website thought that the huge amount of ads on their website weren't enough, and added a script that detects if an adblocker is running on the webpage, and limits you to ONE CITATION until you turn the adblocker off.

That's the definition of greed and exploitation of resources. There is no way in hell that the owners of the website need the amount of money that they are getting from the mind-boggling number of advertisements on the website, and it's truly sickening.

The adblocker I use (uBlock Origin) detected and blocked 49 ADVERTISEMENTS on ONE REFRESH. 49. That wasn't even enough, as their partner, Grammarly, had taken up all of the advertisement spots and shoved their download link into my face multiple times on the one visit I gave it. It's truly infuriating that nobody cares about the greed that the domain's holders have, and the fact that they're most likely sitting in a mansion without a care in the world.

Don't use this website, it's the epitome of greed and scum.

I have no problem with ads being present. What I do have a problem with is when there are so many that are refreshed so frequently that it makes using easybib incredibly slow, makes everything I try to do on my computer slow while easybib is open, and makes for just an overall irritating experience, as I'm just trying to get my sources cited for an essay. I wish I'd looked into other sites to use much sooner, and saved myself the headache. I don't think I'll continue to use easybib, and I would encourage others to look into different sites to use as well, because I wouldn't wish the sort of frustration caused by easybib on anyone.

I use the free version of Easybib and it's always worked pretty well for me. I've used it for writing English papers, history papers, and pretty much any other papers I write(usually MLA format). The reason I put 4 stars instead of five, though, is because often I have found that Easybib can't find the information for citations and neither can I, and also because sometimes MLA format can be shown in slightly different ways and Easybib sometimes writes it in a way slightly different from how the teacher/professor wants it. Other than minor problems, it's been a great resource for me and saves me a ton of time.

I'm a professor whose students often use EasyBib. EasyBib works just fine for most citation tasks However, EasyBib handles one task very, very poorly, and, unfortunately, this is the one task for which my students use it most often: if you use the "Website" option and enter a URL, EasyBib will_never_ give a correct entry for an article in an online newspaper or magazine, and it will only give a correct entry for another webpage if whoever published the website coded it correctly, using the work's actual title as the HTML title (and that doesn't even get into other details, like the publication date).

In short, though I know it's tempting to do the easy thing and just plug in the web address, it's just not gonna work, and you're better off just doing it by hand.

As I prepare for my second stint as a doctoral student in the Fall, I realize that life is now easier for students with sites like EasyBib. According to my friend Judy, who told me about this, EasyBib compiles your bibliographies and citations for you. Having spent now too many years in school, I cannot tell you the number of hours I've spent formatting for APA and compiling my bibliographies - particularly when I've got several dozen up to a hundred or so sources. Not to mention how many times I've nearly gone crazy. I'm a fan of paying for convenience - and if I can relieve the stress of the bibliography, I might just employ these guys soon.

I was working on a massive research project, and thought easybib was the best way to help me keep the hundreds of sources I had organized. Formatting in MLA is free, but the night before I had to turn it in, my professor told me that the department wanted it in APA. Easybib converts from one format to the other easily, however, APA cost money. At the time they had a 3 day free trial. I could sign up, convert to APA, save it to my harddrive, print it out, and then cancel it the next day. I logged on the next day to cancel, and it said I had to go to paypal and cancel my subscription there. I did so, and I even removed my bank account from paypal to be extra sure. Today I got a statement from my bank, and it seems my account wasn't cancelled and they had been taking money from me for three months. I checked paypal, and it said I had no subscriptions to easybib, and no transactions in the last three months. I contact easybib, they told me I had never cancelled, and that they would not refund me. I asked them to cancel mt account, and they told me to cancel it on paypal. I told them I had done this three months ago, and they said they would take care of cancelling it for me if I really had a problem.

I don't get it. How can they cancel it for me if it is up to paypal to cancel it? They have no access to my paypal account. Also, if they could take care of it on their end, why don't they? Why do they make us go through paypal?

I am still trying to get a refund, but they keep telling my that my not cancelling my subscription is no reason to give me a refund. I keep telling them that I did cancel it through paypal, and sent them a screen shot from before I emailed them that I have no subscriptions. But they don't listen. Greedy f***ing b*****ds. It is college students who use this service most often, and they think they can just screw us over, like the rest of the world does.