Productivity
Cite any source, any style
Paste your source details, author, title, year, publisher or URL, and get correctly formatted citations in the style you need.
What is Citation Generator?
Citation Generator is a free AI productivity tool that formats the source details you provide into correct citations in APA, MLA, Chicago, or Harvard style. It runs on a pool of leading AI models, automatically selecting the best one for your specific request, and delivers accurate summaries, translations, action items, and structured knowledge from documents and audio in seconds. No account or subscription is required. Built for knowledge workers, students, and managers who process large volumes of information daily, it is private by default: nothing is stored after your session ends.
- ✦Open and use it — no account required for any text tool
- ✦Documents route automatically to a model suited to the task
- ✦Files and text are processed for your result, then cleared with the session
For the best results: Paste the source details you have — author, title, year, publisher or URL — and name the style you need. It formats what you give it; it does not find sources for you.
Use cases
What people use it for
Reference a mixed bag of webpages, reports and podcasts for one assignment in the required style.
Convert the references you collected in one style into the different style a second subject demands.
Cite a government report or piece of legislation correctly when your style guide's examples don't cover it.
Who uses Citation Generator?
How it works
- 1Paste the text, upload the file, or describe the task.
- 2The best-suited model extracts, transforms, or organises it.
- 3Copy the structured result into wherever the work happens.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Can it find sources for my essay topic?
Deliberately not. It formats the details you already have — author, title, year, publisher, URL — and nothing more. AI tools that 'find' references are notorious for inventing convincing papers that don't exist, which is exactly the failure this tool is designed against. Do your searching in a library database or Google Scholar, then bring the details here for formatting.
What if I don't have every detail for a source?
Missing fields come back as clearly marked placeholders instead of plausible-looking guesses, so the gap stays visible until you fill it. That's a feature: a citation with a silently invented publisher is worse than one with an obvious hole. Chase the missing detail on the source itself — publisher pages and journal sites usually list everything a citation needs.
Which citation style should I pick?
Whatever your marker or publisher specifies — check the unit guide or author instructions first, because the choice is theirs, not yours. As rough orientation: APA dominates psychology and the sciences, MLA the humanities, Chicago history and publishing, and Harvard is common across Australian and UK universities. When the guide names a style and edition, use exactly that.
Can it convert my existing reference list into a different style?
Paste your current citations in as the source details and ask for the new style — it will restructure author order, punctuation, capitalisation and italics to match. One caution: styles sometimes need a detail the old style omitted, and the tool can't conjure what isn't there, so scan the converted list for placeholder gaps before submitting.
How does it handle unusual sources like podcasts or legislation?
Give it whatever identifying details you have — host and episode for a podcast, jurisdiction and year for legislation — plus the source type, and it applies the closest template your chosen style defines. Rarer formats are where styles get fiddly and AI can slip, so for anything exotic, compare the result against your style manual's own example before it goes in.
What are the usage limits?
Text-based productivity tools are unmetered during the current free launch phase; audio-based ones share the audio fair-use limits since transcription costs real compute. Normal daily use never notices either. Paid plans with higher limits and priority model access are coming soon.
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