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Citation Generator

Generate APA, MLA, Chicago, or Harvard citations, and build a reference list

Citation Style

Source Type

Author Last Name

Author First Name

Title

Year

Site Name

URL

Access Date (leave blank for today)

APA citation

Smith, J. (2025). Understanding Climate Change. National Geographic. https://example.com/article

What is this tool?

Generates properly formatted citations in APA, MLA, Chicago, or Harvard style for websites, books, and journal articles, and builds an alphabetized reference list as you add sources.

How to use it

Choose your citation style and source type, fill in the source details, and the formatted citation appears instantly. Add it to your running reference list and copy the full list when you're done.

Double-check author name formatting and capitalization against the original source before finalizing — citation generators handle the structural formatting reliably, but the accuracy of the underlying details is still on the person entering them.

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