About FreeCitationGen
Free citation and bibliography generator supporting APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE, and Vancouver. Auto-fill from URL, DOI, or ISBN — all running in your browser.
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Citation Formats
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Source Types
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Supported Formats
APA 7th
American Psychological Association format for social sciences.
MLA 9th
Modern Language Association format for humanities.
Chicago 17th
Chicago Manual of Style — notes-bib and author-date.
Harvard
Author-date format widely used in UK and Australian universities.
IEEE
Numbered reference style for engineering and computer science.
Vancouver
Numbered reference style for medicine and health sciences.
Key Features
Auto-fill from URL, DOI, ISBN
Paste a URL, DOI, or ISBN to automatically fetch title, authors, publication date, and more.
Bibliography Manager
Collect citations, reorder them, and export as plain text, HTML, BibTeX, or RIS.
8 Source Types
Website, book, journal, newspaper, conference paper, thesis, report, and patent.
In-text Citations
Get both parenthetical and narrative in-text citation formats alongside your reference.
Your Privacy Matters
All citation formatting runs entirely in your browser. URL auto-fill uses a lightweight proxy to fetch page metadata, but no data is stored. DOI and ISBN lookups go directly to free public APIs (CrossRef and Open Library). Your bibliography is saved in your browser's local storage only.