Correct APA, MLA, Chicago, and Harvard citations with live preview, in-text forms, and a bibliography that pastes into Word with the italics intact. No ads, no account, and what you cite stays on your device.
Citation formatting is a solved problem that somehow still costs students hours: which name comes first, what gets italicized, where the commas go, and why APA suddenly wants the date in parentheses. The big citation sites answer those questions between an ad, a popup, a paywalled "premium check," and an account wall. This one just formats your citations.
Pick a style, pick a source type, fill in the fields, and the reference entry builds itself in front of you with the punctuation and italics each style actually requires, alongside the matching in-text citation. Add it to your bibliography, keep going, and copy the finished, alphabetized list straight into your document.
Two honest reasons. First, auto-cite means sending every source you research to a server to be scraped, and your research trail is exactly the kind of quietly revealing data this site refuses to collect. Second, auto-cite is famously unreliable: scraped pages guess at authors and dates, and wrong auto-cited entries are a classic way to lose marks. Twenty seconds of typing into labeled fields produces a citation you can defend.
Pick Website as the source type, APA 7 as the style, and fill in the author, date, page title, site name, and URL. The generator formats the reference with correct punctuation and italics, shows the matching in-text citation, and adds it to an alphabetized bibliography you can copy into Word or Google Docs with formatting intact.
APA (used in psychology, education, and sciences) leads with the date and uses sentence case for titles: Author (2020). MLA (used in humanities) leads with the full author name, keeps titles in Title Case inside quotation marks, and cites pages instead of years in text. The generator handles both rule sets automatically, so the same source entry produces a correct reference in either style.
Auto-cite requires sending every URL you research to a server to be scraped, which is both a privacy leak of your research trail and famously error-prone: auto-cited entries with wrong authors and dates are a classic reason for docked marks. This tool keeps everything on your device and gives you clean fields that take about twenty seconds to fill correctly.
Yes. The Copy button places rich text on your clipboard, so italics on book, journal, and site names paste correctly into Word, Google Docs, and email. There is also an RTF download that opens directly in Word with hanging indents already applied.
The generator applies each style's rule: APA and Harvard shorten to the first author plus et al. from three authors, MLA uses et al. from three authors in both the works-cited entry and in text, and Chicago lists up to three in text before shortening. The full reference entry follows its own per-style author limits automatically.
Yes. Your bibliography is saved in your browser's local storage on your device, so it is still here when you come back. It is never uploaded: what you research is nobody's business, which is also why there are no ads following you around this page.