Citation guides
How to cite anything, in four styles
Short, plain-English guides to MLA 9, APA 7, Chicago 17, and IEEE — each with a live generator built right into the page. Free, no login, nothing uploaded.
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MLA citation generator
Author–page in-text and a hanging-indent Works Cited entry.
APA citation generator
Author–date in-text and a References entry.
Chicago citation generator
Full and short footnotes plus a bibliography entry.
IEEE citation generator
Bracketed numbers in text and a numbered reference list.
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