Type a source in by hand and get it formatted in APA 7, MLA 9, Chicago 18, Harvard, IEEE or Vancouver style, with italics and a hanging indent on screen. Build a full bibliography on the page and switch styles without re-typing.
Your files are processed in your browser, on your own device. Nothing is uploaded to a server.
This Citation Generator formats sources you type in by hand into APA 7, MLA 9, Chicago 18, Harvard, IEEE or Vancouver style, in your browser with no account. It shows the bibliography entry with italics and a hanging indent, the matching in-text citation, and a list you can build on the page.
This is a manual entry tool, and the page says so plainly. There is no DOI, ISBN or URL lookup here, because those lookups need outside services. You type the details of the source yourself, and the tool puts them in the right order, with the right punctuation, capitals and italics for the style you picked.
The output is more than the bibliography line. You get the matching in-text citation for the same source, and for the Chicago notes-and-bibliography style you get the footnote form too. The fields cover the full shape of a source: year, title, journal or site or book name, publisher, editors for chapters, volume, issue, pages, edition, DOI and URL. Leave a field empty and the entry is built from what is there, which is why a careful read of the result matters.
The seven styles cover the lists most students and researchers actually hand in. APA 7 serves the social sciences. MLA 9 serves language and literature work. Chicago 18 comes in both its forms, author-date for the sciences and notes-and-bibliography for history and the humanities. Harvard, IEEE and Vancouver cover the numbered and author-date lists common in engineering, medicine and UK university work.
The bibliography builder is the part that saves real time. Add sources one by one and the list stays in alphabetical order as you build it. Switch the style and every entry re-renders in the new style without re-typing a single field. IEEE and Vancouver lists renumber themselves to match the new order. Copy the list as plain text, or download it as an HTML file. The HTML file keeps the italics and the hanging indent. Plain text cannot hold italics, and the page says so up front, so the HTML download is the right pick when the formatting itself is being marked. The bibliography lives on this page until you leave it. Close the tab and the list is gone, so download before you go.
Correct formatting of wrong details is the central failure of every citation tool, this one included. Type the wrong year, a misspelled author or a made-up volume number, and the tool will format that error beautifully. Garbage in means garbage out. The generator cannot verify that a source exists, that a DOI resolves, or that a page range is real.
The defence is a two-minute habit. Check every entry against the source itself and against your style guide before you hand the work in. Style guides settle edge cases that no form can guess, like editors with two roles or a journal that changed its name. The formatting here is the mechanical part, done fast and done the same way every time. The accuracy of the details stays with you, because it can only ever stay with you. Nothing you type is uploaded or stored. Entries are formatted in this tab, and the list exists only while the page is open.
No. Entry is manual by design. DOI, ISBN and URL lookups need outside services, so you type the source details yourself and the tool formats them. A DOI or URL you type is printed into the entry, nothing more.
Seven: APA 7, MLA 9, Chicago 18 in author-date form, Chicago 18 in notes-and-bibliography form, Harvard, IEEE and Vancouver. Switch styles on a built list and every entry changes without re-typing.
Four: a book, a journal article, a web page, and a chapter in an edited book. Each type shows the fields that type needs, including editors and page ranges for chapters.
Write each author as Last, First, and separate one author from the next with semicolons in the authors field. The tool then orders and punctuates the names for the style you picked.
Yes. Download the list as an HTML file and the italics and hanging indent travel with it. A plain text copy cannot hold italics, so titles lose their slant in that format.
No. It formats the details you give it and cannot verify that a source, a DOI or a page range exists. Check each entry against the source and your style guide before handing work in.
Same rules as this one: free, in your browser, with nothing uploaded.
Words, characters, sentences and reading time, live.
UPPER, lower, Title and sentence case in one click.
Characters with and without spaces, counted as you type.
Count sentences and check how long they run.
Count paragraphs, lines and words in one paste.
Count letters alone, with spaces and lines shown too.
Headlines capitalized the way style guides ask for.
How many minutes your text takes to read or say aloud.