Citation Tools
Crossref FEATURED Citation Tool. Search the metadata of journal articles, books, standards, datasets & more. To cite, click on ACTIONS, then the style—APA, Harvard, MLA, Vancouver, or Chicago.
Citation Guides and Citation Generators
- EasyBib Citation Guides Guides for APA, MLA, and Chicago/Turabian
- EasyBib: Free Bibliography Generator Generate citations in MLA format for your bibliography
- Grammarly Citation Generator APA, MLA, and Chicago
- Mendeley Citation Hub APA, MLA, and Harvard guides. Plus, the Ultimate Citation Cheat Sheet.
- NCSU Citation Builder
- NoodleTools Express MLA, APA or Chicago.
- Quillbot Create Accurate Citations for free. (Create article citations with the DOI...)
- Scribbr Citation Generator AMA, ACS, APA, Chicago, CSE, Harvard, MLA, Turabian, Vancouver, Journal of Forensic Science
- ZoteroBib zoterobib, fast, free bibliography generator, MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard citations
Tip: Use automatically generated citations with care. Edit, as needed. Check punctuation and capitalization, etc.
Citation Reference Managers
- Mendeley Desktop "Free reference manager and academic social network. Make your own fully-searchable library in seconds, cite as you write, and read and annotate your PDFs on any device." Tip: If you use both the Mendeley Desktop and Zotero, then you can setup Mendeley Desktop to sync with Zotero.
- Mendeley Web Importer Browser plug-in; Mendeley Web Importer is compatible with Science Direct, Google Scholar listings, PubMed and many many other online catalogs.
- PaperShip the app for iPad, iPhone, and MAC. Works with Mendeley and Zotero.
- Sciwheel citation manager from Sage Journals/Sage Knowledge. Chrome extension, Word add-in, Google Docs add-on.
- Zotero download Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. Zotero: a Guide for Librarians, Researchers and Educators by Jason Puckett
Choose the version of Zotero that works best for you (and keep them in sync).
Zotero for your web browser:
- runs as an extension within your Firefox web browser.
- add a plugin for their word processing program.
Zotero standalone for your desktop:
- runs as a separate program on your computer.
- add a plugin to their web browser (Chrome, Safari, Firefox).