Citation Generator
APA, MLA, Harvard and Chicago references for websites, books and journal articles — free, private and copy-ready.
Choose your citation style
- APA citation generator — APA 7th edition
- MLA citation generator — MLA 9th edition
- Harvard citation generator — Harvard (Cite Them Right)
- Chicago citation generator — Chicago 18th edition, notes and bibliography
Each style page has the same generator plus that style's rules and worked examples. If your teacher has not named a style, ask: APA is common in psychology, education and the social sciences; MLA in English and modern languages; Chicago in history; and Harvard across many UK courses.
How to cite a source in four steps
- Pick the style and source type. Websites, books and journal articles are supported.
- Enter what you can find: authors (or an organisation), title, date and the details for that source type. Leave out what does not exist — no date and no author are both handled.
- Copy the reference and the in-text citation. Italics are kept when you paste.
- Add it to your list to build an alphabetised reference list you can copy in one go.
The same source in four styles
APA
Grady, J. S., Her, M., Moreno, G., Perez, C., & Yelinek, J. (2019). Emotions in storybooks: A comparison of storybooks that represent ethnic and racial groups in the United States. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 8(3), 207–217. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000185
MLA
Grady, Jamie S., et al. “Emotions in Storybooks: A Comparison of Storybooks That Represent Ethnic and Racial Groups in the United States.” Psychology of Popular Media Culture, vol. 8, no. 3, 2019, pp. 207–17. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000185.
Harvard
Grady, J.S., Her, M., Moreno, G., Perez, C. and Yelinek, J. (2019) ‘Emotions in storybooks: A comparison of storybooks that represent ethnic and racial groups in the United States’, Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 8(3), pp. 207–217. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000185.
Chicago
Grady, Jamie S., Malina Her, Geena Moreno, Catherine Perez, and Jillian Yelinek. “Emotions in Storybooks: A Comparison of Storybooks That Represent Ethnic and Racial Groups in the United States.” Psychology of Popular Media Culture 8, no. 3 (2019): 207–17. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000185.
Check before you submit
- Names and titles are copied exactly — the generator formats them but cannot correct spelling.
- APA and Harvard want sentence-case titles: if you typed every word with a capital, change it.
- Every in-text citation has a matching entry in your list, and vice versa.