Fix reference formatting
ResearchStudy
Reformat a reference list to APA 7th, MLA or IEEE and get back only the result.
Fill the blanks and it copies as you filled it
[Paste your reference list]
Reformat the list above to .
- Leave a blank where information is missing and mark what's missing
- Give me the reformatted list only, no commentary0 of 1 blanks filled · anything left blank copies with its brackets
Bounding the output keeps unrequested commentary from being appended (all three vendor guides agree).
What this prompt does
Compared with asking the same thing without the length and format lines.estimate
Estimated output tokens
700
Asked loosely
180
This prompt
Energy (Wh)
1.215
Asked loosely
0.423
This prompt
Tokens estimated from characters; energy measured by Jegham et al. 2025.
What that saves
15.8 Wh · 5.54 gCO₂e · 74 mL — assuming 20 uses a day — the global average is 3.7 (Chatterji et al. 2025)
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Reported backfire — Specifying output lengthSpecifying a length longer than needed backfires (a 34% increase in 11% of scenarios)
Where these figures come from
Published figures for the rule itself — not what this prompt saves.
Specifying output length
38.7%mean reduction · 95% CI 29.7–47.7%
Podder et al. 2026 BP#5 · 18 use cases / 57 prompts
by modelGPT-4o 35%Command R+ 49%Mistral-7B 32%
Reduced in every scenario. No backfire reported