A citation generator turns the details of a source (author, title, date, website or publisher) into a correctly formatted reference. You choose the style your teacher or university uses, and it puts every comma, full stop and italic in the right place.
Use the style your school, university or teacher asks for. APA 7 is common in education, psychology and the social sciences. MLA 9 is used in English and the humanities. Harvard is popular in UK and Gulf universities. Chicago is used in history and some humanities subjects.
The full reference goes in the list at the end of your essay. The in-text citation is the short version you put in your sentence, for example (Smith, 2023) in APA and Harvard, or (Smith) in MLA. Chicago uses footnotes instead.
Yes. It is completely free, needs no account and has no adverts. Your list is saved in your own browser, so nothing you cite is stored by us.
Yes. Type the author names and title as they appear in the source. If your teacher asks for an English translation of the title, add it in square brackets after the title.