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abc.net.au/news/reef-recovery

Northern reef shows signs of recovery

Sarah Chen · ABC News · 14 March 2026

Fast-growing branching corals had returned to several key monitoring sites. Researchers cautioned that the recovery remains fragile.

Traced Chen, S. (2026, March 14). Northern reef shows signs of recovery. ABC News.

Three steps. You already do the first one.

  1. 1

    Copy

    Select any sentence and press ⌘C — or Ctrl+C on Windows — exactly like you always do.

  2. 2

    It's saved

    Trace keeps the quote and writes its citation. A small tick tells you it worked.

  3. 3

    Check and paste

    Open your bibliography, check it, and paste it into your essay — formatted.

See your bibliography before you hand it in.

Every source, in order, formatted the way your teacher expects. Trace marks the ones worth a second look — like a page with no author — so you fix two, not twenty.

Switch between APA, MLA, Harvard and Chicago in one click, then paste it into Word or Google Docs, or download it for Word.

References

3 sources, 1 to check

Chen, S. (2026, March 14). Northern reef shows signs of recovery. ABC News.

CSIRO. (2024). State of the climate 2024.

Decidr. (n.d.). The state of AI in Australian business.

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Questions

Does Trace read everything I copy?

Only sentences of a few words or more, and never on sites you've switched it off for. What it saves stays on your computer.

What if a page has no author or date?

Trace uses the organisation as the author and writes "n.d." for a missing date. It flags those entries so you can check them before you hand anything in.

Is this different from MyBib or Zotero?

Those make you click a button on every page you want to cite. Trace works from the copy you were already making.