Citation Generator

Generates properly formatted citations for scholarly sources across major citation styles (APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard). It serves students, researchers, librarians, and instructors who prepare manuscripts, assignments, and bibliographies and require dependable, standards-compliant references.
The tool accepts source type, authors, year, title, container, volume/issue, pages, publisher, location, DOI/URL, access date, and style, then formats the output accordingly. It normalizes author names, applies appropriate capitalization and punctuation, and italicizes titles as required by each style.
Core features include support for books, articles, websites, chapters, and editors/translators; optional locale settings; and export options such as BibTeX and RIS for reference managers. The system resolves DOIs when possible to enrich metadata and ensure accuracy, while gracefully handling missing fields with style-appropriate fallbacks.
This tool is valuable for students drafting papers, researchers compiling literature reviews, librarians curating bibliographies, and instructors preparing reading lists, offering consistent, standards-compliant citations with minimal manual effort.