Effective date: 2026-08-05 · Applies to Bonsai Citations and this website.
The service is free and provided "as-is"
Bonsai is offered free of charge, with no warranty of any kind. It's a citation helper built by a student — useful, but not perfect.
Always check your citations
Citation styles have edge cases, and source pages don't always publish clean details. Bonsai does not guarantee that any citation is complete or correct. Treat every result as a strong first draft and verify it against your assignment's required style before you submit. You're responsible for the citations you turn in.
Please don't abuse the service
Use Bonsai for ordinary citation work. Don't try to break it, overload it, scrape it in bulk, or use it to do anything unlawful. The paste-to-cite feature relies on a shared public lookup (Wikimedia's Citoid) — automated or excessive use isn't fair to that service or to other students.
No accounts, nothing to terminate
There are no accounts and no logins, so there's nothing to suspend or delete. If you want to remove your data, clear your saved bibliography in the tool or remove the extension — everything is stored on your own device.
Changes
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