Citation Generator – APA, MLA, Chicago & Harvard Free

Generate properly formatted citations in APA, MLA, Chicago, and Harvard styles for any source type – books, websites, articles, and more – in seconds, completely free.

Citation Style Notes

APA: Author, A. A. (Year). Title. Publisher.
MLA: Author. Title. Publisher, Year.
Chicago: Author. Title. Place: Publisher, Year.
Harvard: Author (Year) Title. Place: Publisher.

What is this tool?

A Citation Generator is a free academic tool that creates correctly formatted citations and bibliographies in the world's most widely used academic styles: APA 7th edition, MLA 9th edition, Chicago 17th edition (Notes-Bibliography and Author-Date), and Harvard. It eliminates the tedious manual formatting of author names, publication dates, titles, URLs, and punctuation rules that differ between styles. Students and researchers use it to build reference lists quickly, avoid accidental plagiarism from mis-cited sources, and submit assignments with confidence that citations meet style-guide requirements.

How to use this tool?

1. Select the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Chicago, or Harvard. 2. Choose the source type: book, journal article, website, YouTube video, newspaper, thesis, or other. 3. Fill in the source details – author(s), title, publication year, publisher, URL, access date, etc. 4. Click "Generate Citation" – the tool formats everything according to the selected style guide. 5. Copy the formatted citation with one click and paste it into your paper's reference list or footnote. 6. Repeat for each source in your paper to build a complete, consistently formatted bibliography.

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