How to Generate Citations
Upload Your Source
Just copy and paste the link to the article. The Citation Generator reads your source material directly and pulls every detail it needs (author, date, title, publisher) without you lifting a finger.
Generate With One Click
Select your citation style and hit generate. The tool instantly produces a perfectly formatted citation that follows the exact rules of your chosen style guide without the need of extensive manual verification.
Copy and Use
Your citation is ready the moment it generates. Copy it directly into your document, your reference list, or your bibliography. Formatted correctly, no cleanup needed, nothing left to fix.
All Features
Submit Without the Last-Minute Panic
The hour before a deadline is not when you want to be manually checking whether a journal title should be italicised or whether the volume number comes before or after the issue. Generate every citation in advance and submit knowing the reference list is already done.
Switch Courses Without Learning a New Style From Scratch
One semester it's APA, the next it's Harvard, the one after that your engineering module wants IEEE. Instead of relearning the rules every time, just change the format selector and get the same source cited correctly in whichever style your current course demands.
Build Your Entire Bibliography as You Research
Most students leave citations to the end. Generate each one the moment you use a source and by the time you finish writing, your bibliography is already complete — in the right order, in the right format, ready to paste.
Switch Between Citations Effortlessly
The Citation Generator is built to handle every major academic referencing format used in universities, research institutions, and journals worldwide.
Social sciences standard, perfected
Generate fully compliant APA 7th edition citations for books, journals, websites, and more. Every in-text reference and reference list entry follows the latest Publication Manual rules exactly.
Pricing Plan
The Citation Generator is free to use. When you need unlimited citations and advanced source handling, Chatly Pro is available at a single flat rate.
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What Researchers Are Saying
Here is what people are doing with the Citation Generator across every level of academic and professional work.
My clients send me papers in every citation style imaginable. I use this to verify references quickly before I return a manuscript. It has caught formatting inconsistencies that would have embarrassed the author in peer review.
I used to lose an easy ten marks every assignment just on referencing mistakes. Since I started using this free citation generator I haven't had a single comment from my tutors about formatting.
I teach my students to use this before they even think about submitting an essay. The MLA citation generator output is clean, it formats the Works Cited page correctly, and it actually helps them understand what information a citation needs.
When you're managing 200 sources across a dissertation, manual citation is not an option. The APA and ACS outputs are accurate enough that I trust them without checking.
AMA referencing is brutally specific and our professors check everything. The AMA citation generator on Chatly gets the superscript numbering, journal abbreviations, and page range format right every time.
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