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APA 7 · MLA 9 · Chicago 17 · Harvard. Inline and bibliography formats for each.
All four styles at once for one source, plus a reference block for an entire source list. Copy inline or bibliography; works alongside the Essay Outline and Thesis generators.
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APA 7
Sentence-case titles, author-date, DOI as hyperlink. Inline: (Smith, 2024).
Smith, J. (2024). Heat stress and marine fisheries. Journal of Marine Climate, 44(2), 118–142. https://doi.org/10.1234/jmcc.2024.0042
MLA 9
Title case, author-page inline, quoted article titles. Inline: (Smith 134).
Smith, Jane. "Heat Stress and Marine Fisheries." Journal of Marine Climate, vol. 44, no. 2, 2024, pp. 118–142.
Chicago 17 · author-date
Year after author; good for humanities and history. Inline: (Smith 2024, 134).
Smith, Jane. 2024. "Heat Stress and Marine Fisheries." Journal of Marine Climate 44 (2): 118–142.
Harvard
Common in the UK and Australia. Clear author-date; explicit Online / Accessed tags.
Smith, J., 2024. Heat stress and marine fisheries. Journal of Marine Climate, 44(2), pp. 118–142. [Online]
APA 7, MLA 9, Chicago 17 (author-date), and Harvard. You can pick one or all — we return a separate formatted entry per style, each with inline and bibliography forms.
Yes. Use Smart parse and drop in whatever you have — a messy paragraph, a URL, a DOI, or an ISBN. We normalize the fields and produce clean citations. For best results, include at least author, title, and year.
Missing fields are flagged in brackets (e.g. [Year]) and listed under "missing" on each citation so you can fill them in. We will never invent authors, publishers, or dates.
Yes — every entry includes the style-appropriate inline form: "(Smith, 2024)" for APA, "(Smith 34)" for MLA, "(Smith 2024, 34)" for Chicago author-date, and "(Smith, 2024)" for Harvard.
All of them — plus news, video, podcasts, and more. Pick the source type hint for best formatting, or let the model infer from the content.
Each generated citation gets a short shareable URL that stays accessible for 30 days, tied to your session. We cache identical requests for a week to save credits. Public only if you share the link.
Very accurate for the fields you provide — style rules are encoded explicitly. When we guess (e.g. capitalization or author formatting), a short "note" explains what we did so you can double-check.
It handles fuzzy or messy input — you don't need to know which field is which. Paste anything and it extracts and formats. Works great for students, researchers, and writers doing lit reviews.
You can enter a DOI and we format a correct citation. We do not currently fetch the full record from CrossRef — so pair the DOI with whatever metadata you have for accuracy.
Yes — once on the result page, use "Copy all as Markdown" to grab every citation at once. Good for pasting into Google Docs, Notion, or Overleaf.