APA, MLA, Chicago and more. Turn DOIs, ISBNs and links into correctly formatted citations in APA 7, MLA 9, Chicago 17 (author-date or notes and bibliography), Harvard (Cite Them Right) or IEEE.
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| Prompt | Tool | Expected |
|---|---|---|
| Cite this in APA 7: 10.1038/nature14539 | create_citation | LeCun, Y., Bengio, Y., & Hinton, G. (2015). Deep learning. Nature, 521(7553), 436–444. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14539 (journal and volume in italics), with (LeCun et al., 2015) in text. |
| Chicago author-date citation for ISBN 9780262033848 | create_citation | Cormen, Thomas H., Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, and Clifford Stein. 2009. Introduction to Algorithms. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press. In text: (Cormen et al. 2009). |
| Harvard references for 10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2 and ISBN 978-0-374-53355-7 | create_citation | Sorted list: Jumper, J. et al. (2021) ‘Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold’, Nature, 596(7873), pp. 583–589, then Kahneman, D. (2013) Thinking, fast and slow, flagged as missing its place of publication. |
| IEEE reference for https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762 | create_citation | [1] A. Vaswani et al., “Attention is all you need,” 2017, arXiv:1706.03762. (8 authors, so et al.) |
| MLA citation for https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-armstrong-celebrates-80-years-of-flight-innovation/ | create_citation | Whiting, Teresa. “NASA Armstrong Celebrates 80 Years of Flight Innovation.” NASA, 28 Sept. 2026, www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-armstrong-celebrates-80-years-of-flight-innovation/. (site name dropped from the title, author and date read from the page). |
| Find me five peer-reviewed sources about climate change and coral reefs. | none | Finding sources is research, not formatting citations the user already has. |
| Summarize the paper "Attention Is All You Need". | none | Summarising a paper needs no citation formatting. |
| What is the difference between APA and MLA style? | none | A general question about styles, answerable without formatting any source. |