diff --git a/src/backend/langflow/components/chains/RetrievalQAWithSourcesChain.py b/src/backend/langflow/components/chains/RetrievalQAWithSourcesChain.py
index 3c46cd8bd..4ec1ce886 100644
--- a/src/backend/langflow/components/chains/RetrievalQAWithSourcesChain.py
+++ b/src/backend/langflow/components/chains/RetrievalQAWithSourcesChain.py
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 from typing import Optional
 
 from langchain.chains import RetrievalQAWithSourcesChain
-from langchain.chains.qa_with_sources.base import BaseQAWithSourcesChain
 from langchain.chains.combine_documents.base import BaseCombineDocumentsChain
+from langchain_core.documents import Document
 
 from langflow import CustomComponent
-from langflow.field_typing import BaseLanguageModel, BaseMemory, BaseRetriever
+from langflow.field_typing import BaseLanguageModel, BaseMemory, BaseRetriever, Text
 
 
 class RetrievalQAWithSourcesChainComponent(CustomComponent):
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ class RetrievalQAWithSourcesChainComponent(CustomComponent):
         chain_type: str,
         memory: Optional[BaseMemory] = None,
         return_source_documents: Optional[bool] = True,
-    ) -> BaseQAWithSourcesChain:
-        return RetrievalQAWithSourcesChain.from_chain_type(
+    ) -> Text:
+        runnable = RetrievalQAWithSourcesChain.from_chain_type(
             llm=llm,
             chain_type=chain_type,
             combine_documents_chain=combine_documents_chain,
@@ -40,3 +40,19 @@ class RetrievalQAWithSourcesChainComponent(CustomComponent):
             return_source_documents=return_source_documents,
             retriever=retriever,
         )
+        if isinstance(inputs, Document):
+            inputs = inputs.page_content
+        self.status = runnable
+        input_key = runnable.input_keys[0]
+        result = runnable.invoke({input_key: inputs})
+        result = result.content if hasattr(result, "content") else result
+        # Result is a dict with keys "query",  "result" and "source_documents"
+        # for now we just return the result
+        records = self.to_records(result.get("source_documents"))
+        references_str = ""
+        if return_source_documents:
+            references_str = self.create_references_from_records(records)
+        result_str = result.get("result")
+        final_result = "\n".join([result_str, references_str])
+        self.status = final_result
+        return final_result