RefineMyDraft started with two jobs: reviewing essays paragraph by paragraph, and reshaping any document to an exact word count. Then came the personal statement generator, and with it a simple idea: if you are applying for something, we should help with the whole application, not just the writing part. Today that idea gets two new tools. The Cover Letter generator writes a tailored letter from your CV and the job description, and the Citation generator formats references in APA 7, MLA 9 and Harvard.
Here is what each one does, why it works the way it does, and how to get the most out of it.
The Cover Letter generator
The Cover Letter generator works exactly like the personal statement tool, because application letters follow the same discipline. You paste your CV, paste the job description, choose a target length between 150 and 450 words, and pick a tone: professional, warm, confident or concise. The letter is written to that exact word count, within 10%, with one automatic rewrite if the first draft misses.
Two rules keep the output honest. First, nothing is invented. Every claim in the letter has to be traceable to your CV, so the letter survives the interview questions it invites. Second, the job description is treated as the specification. The tool matches your real evidence to the skills, responsibilities and values the role actually asks for, which is exactly what the recruiters in our cover letter guide say separates the letters that get read from the ones that get skipped.
You also get three free extras with every letter: a summary of what the letter does and how it was tailored, specific advice for strengthening your CV against this particular role, and five likely interview questions with STAR-method hints. The letter downloads as a .docx with a clearly marked section for those extras, so you can delete them before submitting without hunting through the file.
The Citation generator
Citations are the most mechanical part of academic writing, and the most reliable way to lose marks. So we built the formatting in code, not in an AI model. The free citation generator takes a few details about a source, and returns the full reference and in-text forms in APA 7, MLA 9 and Harvard at once. Books, journal articles, websites, book chapters, newspaper articles, theses and reports are all covered. No sign-up, no credits, no catch.
Formatting in code matters because consistency is the point. A reference built by a model can vary between attempts; a reference built by the same deterministic rules never does. What you type is what gets formatted, which is also why the form asks for the details rather than trying to read your mind.
For messier material, the dashboard also includes an AI clean-up mode. Paste a reference list copied from a website, a PDF or an old bibliography, and the AI reads each entry and extracts the source details. The same deterministic formatter then turns them into clean, consistent citations. The AI does the reading; the code does the formatting.
Why these two?
Both tools complete the application suite that the personal statement generator started. A student applying for a job now has the statement, the cover letter, the CV advice and the likely interview questions covered. A student finishing an essay has review, reshaping, paraphrasing, summarising and now correct references. Every AI tool uses the same simple billing, one word credit per word, with automatic refunds if a job fails, and the free citation formatter stays free.
The other thing they share is the no-invention rule. Whether the tool is writing a letter or reading a reference list, it only works with what you give it. That is what keeps the output usable: a letter you can defend in an interview, and a reference list you can stand behind.
Try them
The free citation formatter is live now at refinemydraft.org/citations, no account needed. The Cover Letter generator and the AI citation cleaner live in the dashboard, alongside the personal statement tool, essay review and WordShaper. Every account starts with a free 30-day trial, so you can run a full application through the suite before deciding whether to subscribe.
If you are new to writing application letters, start with the two guides that pair with these tools: how to write a cover letter that actually gets read, and how to stop losing marks over citations. The tools make the formatting effortless; the guides make the strategy clear.
Turn good writing into submission-ready work
Improve any draft with explained, paragraph-level feedback. Generate a personal statement or cover letter adapted to your application. Format references correctly. Reshape to an exact word count. One account, one suite.