Citation Generator

Because URL auto-fill is where big citation sites quietly fail: they scrape the page for author and date, guess wrong on both (bylines picked up as authors, site names as titles, missing dates filled with today), and students submit the errors. Thirty seconds of typing the five real fields produces a citation you can trust — and teaches the format, which is the assignment's actual point.

The reference list entry is the full record at the paper's end; the in-text citation is the short pointer in your sentence — APA uses (Author, Year), MLA uses (Author Page). Both are generated here. The matching rule graders check: every in-text citation must resolve to a reference entry, and every entry must be cited somewhere in the text.

Enter them the way your style wants, because generators can't reliably fix case (they can't tell proper nouns from ordinary words). APA reference lists use sentence case for article and page titles — capitalize only the first word, the first word after a colon, and proper nouns — while journal and book names keep their capitals. MLA uses title case throughout. This is the single most common thing citation tools silently get wrong.

Whichever your instructor assigned — APA dominates the sciences and social sciences, MLA the humanities. These implement APA 7th edition (2020) and MLA 9th (2021), the current handbooks. The honest disclaimer every citation tool owes you: edge cases (no author, corporate authors, translated works, 21+ authors) have special rules, so check anything unusual against your school's style guide or the OWL at Purdue.