Citation Generator

APA 7th edition, MLA Handbook 9th edition, and the Chicago Manual of Style 18th edition in both author-date and notes-and-bibliography forms. The edition in use is shown under the style buttons.

When you press Look up, only the DOI is sent to Crossref — the main DOI registration agency for journals and books — or to DataCite if Crossref has no record. The details that come back fill the form, marked with where they came from, and you can edit everything. Nothing else you type leaves your browser.

APA uses sentence case for titles of articles, books and web pages: only the first word, the first word after a colon and proper nouns are capitalized. Publisher records are often in title case. Use the “Sentence case” button, then re-capitalize any names.

No. If a source has no date, the style shows “n.d.”; if there's no author, the style moves the title or organization forward. Nothing is guessed or invented — add only what you can see in the source.

Yes. “Copy all” pastes with italics into Word and Google Docs, or download a .docx file with the hanging indent already set. BibTeX (.bib) works with LaTeX, and RIS imports into Zotero, Mendeley and EndNote.

With citeproc-js, the same open-source Citation Style Language processor used by Zotero and Mendeley, and the official CSL style files. Always check the result against your instructor's or publisher's guidelines.

Only if you tick “Keep this list on this device”, which stores it in this browser. Otherwise it's gone when you close the page. Nothing is stored on our servers.

APA is common in psychology, education and the social sciences and puts the year up front, as in (Smith, 2020). MLA is used in literature and the humanities and cites author and page, as in (Smith 23). Chicago is popular in history and publishing and comes in two forms: footnotes with a bibliography, or author-date like APA. Use the one your instructor or journal asks for.

Yes. Every reference shows its matching in-text citation for APA, MLA and Chicago author-date, or the footnote for Chicago notes and bibliography, with its own copy button. Add page numbers yourself when you quote a specific passage.

Journal articles, books and web pages. If a DOI points to something else, such as a book chapter, conference paper or dataset, it is filled in as the closest of those three with a note asking you to check the fields. Other source types, such as videos, interviews or court cases, have no form of their own.

Most journal articles print the DOI on the first page or on the article's web page; it always starts with 10., for example 10.1037/ppm0000185. You can paste it on its own, with doi:, or as a full https://doi.org/ link. If you can't find one, search the title on Crossref or enter the details by hand.

The form fills in today's date for web pages, and you can change it. Whether it appears depends on the style: APA 7 only includes a retrieval date for pages that are designed to change over time, while MLA 9 recommends one, especially when a page has no publication date.