John B. Cade Library
Citations
Online Citation Generators
Citation creators or citation generators are online tools which facilitate the creation of works cited and bibliographies. Citation creators use web forms to take bibiographic information retrieved from information supporting your research and output the information according to guidelines and standards, such as the Modern Language Association (MLA), American Psychological Assoication(APA) The Chicago Manual of Style(CMS), Turabian, etc.,
Citation Generator Websites
- BibmeBibme is a free citation generator developed at Carnegie Mellon University that produces citations and bibliographies in APA, MLA, Chicago and Turabian styles. It has some features not found in other free citation generators, such as auto fill and the ability to switch between citation styles.
- Citation MachineCitation Machine is a free site that automatically produces MLA, APA, Turabian or Chicago Style Citations for a variety of sources (but not bibliographies). Users can copy and paste citations into Microsoft Word. Citation Machine is developed by David Warlick, an educator.
- Knight CiteKnightCite is a free site that auomatically produces MLA, APA, and Chicago style citations for 25 different sources. Developed at the Heckman Library at Calvin College.
- MendeleyA free reference manager and academic social network. Users can automatically generate bibliographies, and collaborate with other researchers online.
- StyleWizardThis free site automatically produces MLA, or APA style citations for 6 basic types of sources. There is excellent help on each screen to walk through the processing of citing a source.
- ZoteroZotero is a free open source utility that works in the Firefox browser to help users collect, manage and cite sources. It was developed at George Mason University.
- Create a Title PageUse to create a title page for your research paper. This cite will format MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian.