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Cite 14 types of source: journal articles, books, book chapters, web pages, reports, theses, conference papers, newspaper and magazine articles, videos, podcasts, software and apps, datasets, legislation and court cases, and interviews. Search by title, DOI or ISBN, confirm the details in a guided form, and build a bibliography you can switch between APA 7, MLA 9, Harvard, AMA 11 and Vancouver in one click.
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Completed citations appear here, formatted in the style you choose. They are saved in this browser only.
Check capitalisation: APA, AMA and Vancouver use sentence case for article titles, and MLA uses title case. Crossref records keep the capitalisation the publisher supplied. For AMA and Vancouver, use the journal abbreviation from the NLM Catalog.
Search by title, DOI or ISBN, paste a web address, or enter the details yourself.
Check the fields filled in from Crossref; fields your style needs are highlighted.
It joins your bibliography, which you can edit, re-style, copy or download for Word.
Each style follows the published examples in its guide: how many authors to list (APA up to 20; AMA up to 6, otherwise the first 3 and et al; Vancouver the first 6 and et al), how editors, organisations and missing authors are handled, and punctuation, italics, page ranges, dates and DOI format for each source type.
Details from Crossref come from publishers and may need correcting, especially the capitalisation of titles and journal abbreviations. Web pages cannot be looked up automatically, so add the author, date and site name shown on the page. Always check references against the version of the style your journal or institution requires.
Journal articles, books (including edited books), chapters in edited books, web pages, reports, theses and dissertations, conference papers and posters, newspaper and magazine articles, videos (such as YouTube), podcast episodes, software and mobile apps, datasets, legislation and court cases, and interviews.
APA, AMA and Vancouver treat an interview you conducted yourself as a personal communication: it is cited in the text only, and the tool shows you the in-text form. MLA and Harvard list personal interviews in the reference list.
APA, AMA and Vancouver use US legal citation (the Bluebook), so enter the official citation, such as 347 U.S. 483. Harvard follows UK practice, such as Data Protection Act 2018, c. 12. MLA follows its own template, naming the government body as author and where you read the law or judgment.
Tick Published in conference proceedings and add the proceedings title, editors, publisher and pages. APA, MLA and AMA then treat it like a chapter in an edited book, as their guides advise.
Harvard is a family of author-date styles, and institutions differ. This tool follows Cite Them Right, as set out in the Open University's guide; check which version your institution or journal expects.
Leave the contributors empty. The title then moves to the start of the reference, as each style requires.
Yes. Add an annotation under More options and it appears below the reference in your bibliography and in the Word download.