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Citation Generator: APA, MLA, Chicago and Harvard

A desk seen from above: two open books, a laptop, three highlighters, stacks of index cards and a cup of coffee on a navy cloth.

Pick a source type and a style, fill in what you know, and copy the citation. Your entries stay in this page's memory only: nothing is saved, tracked or sent anywhere, and the list is gone when you close the tab.

How to get a good citation

  • Copy details from the source itself (title page, article header, DOI), not from a search result snippet.
  • Check the result against your instructor's or journal's style guide: small rules differ between editions and institutions.
  • Harvard has no single official version. This tool follows the common Cite Them Right layout used by many universities; if your school's guide differs, follow your school's guide.

What it does not cover

Chapters in edited books, reports, social media posts, podcasts, theses and legal sources are not included yet. For those, use the official style guide for your style.