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Every piece of academic writing — a paper, thesis, or article — needs a correctly formatted bibliography citing its sources, in whichever style your instructor or journal requires. But each style, like APA, MLA, and Chicago, has its own rules for punctuation and the order information appears in, which is easy to mix up when citing several sources. This tool lets you pick a style and source type (website or book), then fill in the author, title, and publication year — it formats the citation correctly for that style instantly. Add multiple citations to a running list, then copy them all into your paper at once. It's a handy way to draft a first-pass bibliography quickly.
How to use the citation generator
Pick a style and source type
Choose APA, MLA, or Chicago, and website or book
Fill in the source details
Enter author, title, publication year, and so on
Copy into your paper
Build up a running list, then copy it all at once
Why use this tool
All 3 popular styles
APA, MLA, and Chicago in one tool
Formats automatically
No need to memorize each style's punctuation rules
Builds a single list
Add multiple sources and copy them all together
Example use cases
Citing a website source in a research paper
Enter the author, page title, site name, and URL — the tool formats it correctly in APA, MLA, or Chicago style.
Building a bibliography for a thesis
Add every source you've cited one at a time, then copy the whole list into your works-cited page at the end.
Switching citation style to match a journal's requirements
Different journals or assignments require different styles — switch the style dropdown and the same source info reformats instantly.
Citing a book
Select "Book" as the source type to get fields for publisher and city of publication instead of a URL.