Citation Generator
Build MLA 9, APA 7, Chicago, and Harvard citations — with in-text citations and a sorted works-cited list.
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How to use
Pick a style, pick a source type, then fill in what you know. The citation builds as you type — you never have to press a "generate" button. Leave a field blank and it is simply left out, so a source with no author or no date still produces a usable entry.
Enter authors as Last, First and separate several with a semicolon: Gillespie, Paula; Lerner, Neal. The tool applies each style's own rules from there — MLA collapses three or more authors to "et al.", while APA 7 lists up to twenty.
Copy citation copies with the italics intact, so pasting into Word or Google Docs keeps the formatting instead of dropping it. Add to list collects entries into a works-cited list that stays alphabetised and survives a page reload.
Capitalisation is left to you
Titles are used exactly as you type them. That is deliberate: MLA and Chicago want title case ("The Rise of the Novel") while APA wants sentence case ("The rise of the novel"), and no automatic converter can tell a proper noun from an ordinary word — it would quietly turn "Shakespeare" into "shakespeare". The hint under the title field tells you which case the current style expects.
Which edition?
MLA is 9th edition (2021), APA is 7th edition, Chicago follows the 17th-edition notes-and-bibliography system, and Harvard follows the widely used Cite Them Right pattern — Harvard is not a single governing standard, so check your department's handout if it differs. For Chicago, the second box shows a footnote rather than a parenthetical, because that is how the notes system cites in the text.
Check before you submit
Every citation generator, this one included, is only as good as what it is given. Confirm author spelling, page ranges, and dates against the source itself, and give the finished list a read — an instructor will spot a wrong volume number faster than any tool will.