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About this tool

Format a source in APA, MLA, Chicago or Harvard — missing details flagged, never invented.

There is one thing a citation tool must never do, and AI tools are notoriously bad at it: making up the missing pieces. A fabricated DOI or an invented publisher completes the pattern beautifully and constitutes academic misconduct.

This uses only the details you supply. Anything absent comes back marked as [missing: field] so you know exactly what to go and find, rather than producing a citation that looks finished and is not. You get the full reference entry and the matching in-text citation, plus a note on which edition of the style was followed, since APA 6 and APA 7 differ in ways that cost marks. Check the output against your institution guide — house styles vary more than the official manuals suggest.

How to use

  1. Paste whatever source details you have — author, title, year, publisher, URL — then choose the style and source type
  2. Press Generate and give it a few seconds.
  3. Copy what you need, or generate again for a different take — every run is fresh.

Frequently asked questions

No, and this is the most important thing about it. Missing fields come back as [missing: field]. A fabricated citation can be treated as academic misconduct, so it refuses to guess.

It states the edition it followed in the output. Confirm against your institution guide, since departments often apply house variations on top of the official style.

One source at a time gives noticeably more reliable results. Batching several increases the chance of details being crossed between entries.

No. Your input is sent to the AI provider this site is configured to use purely to generate your result, and is not stored here afterwards. There is no account for it to be attached to. Even so, keep passwords, financial details and other people's private information out of it.

The site owner selects one model that powers every tool here, so there is nothing for you to configure. Describe what you need, press Generate, and read the result before you use it.