About this citation generator
A citation is a formatting problem, not a research problem: you already know the author, the title, and the year, and what you need is those pieces arranged the way your style guide wants them. This generator takes the fields and applies the rules, so author names invert correctly, a book title comes out italic while an article title takes quotation marks, and a missing date becomes n.d. rather than a blank. Switch between APA 7 and MLA 9 and the same input rearranges itself. Entries can be collected into a bibliography and copied as a block. Everything happens in your browser: nothing is looked up, so there is no autofill from a URL, and equally nothing you type is sent anywhere. One honest caveat: the clipboard carries plain text, so the italics shown in the preview have to be reapplied in your document.