📖 AI Citation Generator

Source Information

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What is the AI Citation Generator?

The AI Citation Generator turns raw source details — author, title, publication, year, or a URL — into a properly formatted citation in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, or Vancouver style. Select the source type, whether it's a book, journal article, website, newspaper article, YouTube video, or podcast, and it applies that style's specific rules for author order, punctuation, italics, and date placement.

How to Use It

Paste whatever source information you have — even incomplete details work — into the text box. Choose the citation style your assignment requires and the source type, then click "Generate Citation." The tool returns a full, correctly formatted citation and notes any details it had to assume, which you should verify against the original source.

When to Use It

Use it whenever you're building a bibliography, works cited page, or reference list and need a citation formatted to a specific academic style without memorizing each style's punctuation and ordering rules.

Who Benefits

Students writing research papers, graduate researchers preparing manuscripts, and anyone assembling a reference list across multiple citation styles will save time compared to formatting citations by hand.

Frequently Asked Questions

Check your assignment instructions or ask your instructor. APA is common in the sciences and social sciences, MLA in humanities and literature, and Chicago in history and some publishing fields — using the wrong one is a common avoidable mistake.

Enter whatever information you have — the tool will generate the best citation it can from partial details and flag any fields it had to assume, so you know exactly what to double-check.

Yes. Always verify author names, publication dates, and titles against the original source before submitting, especially for less common source types like podcasts or YouTube videos.

📖 AI Citation Generator