Citation Generator

Citation formatting rules are fussy on purpose - italics in one place, a comma instead of a period in another, author names inverted only sometimes - which is exactly why they're so easy to get wrong by hand and so tedious to check manually against a style guide.

Pick the source type - a website, book, journal article, newspaper piece, video, podcast, or government document - enter whatever details you have (author, title, date, publisher, URL), and choose a citation style: APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE, or Vancouver. The tool builds a correctly formatted citation for both your reference list and the matching in-text citation.

It's built for the reality of research, where you don't always have every field a "perfect" citation needs. If something's missing, it tells you what to track down rather than silently guessing or leaving a gap in your bibliography.

It's meant for students and researchers assembling a reference list under deadline, not as a replacement for your institution's official style guide - when an edge case comes up, that guide is still the final word.