Tuesday Tech Tools: 13 Citation Generators
/If you are one of the many students getting your school start at the end of this month, here are some tools (apps and online) that will help you edit your writing (or the writing of others) especially when it comes to figuring out how to make citations. Don’t just assume the citations created by these tools are correctly done—double-check them yourself. There are more writing tools at the tech tools site. If you have other suggestions, feel free to send them my way.
Academic Help
Citation generator for MLA, APA, and Chicago formats. Basic but free.
BibMe
The free version lets you create citations in MLA, APA, and Chicago formats. It also offers some writing suggestions. Similar to Citation Machine. A paid account for $9.95 a month you get more writing suggestions and a plagiarism checker.
Citation Machine
Popular, user-friendly citations generator. Chicago, MLA, APA, and 13 other styles. Free version, $9.95 gives you grammar and plagiarism checkers. ations, etc.
Cite Fast
Cite sources in APA, MLA, or Chicago styles. Free but create an account to return to your information.
Cite This For Me
Simple layout. Create citations and bibliographies in APA, MLA, and Harvard formats for over 30 types of sources. Premium account for $15 a month gives you a plagiarism checker and Chrome extension.
Easybib
Auto-formatting of citations for research papers but MLA is the only available format from the free version. $4.99 a month for the paid version to get more styles, in-text citations, etc.
EditTeach
Resources for editing professors, students and working professionals to help strengthen the craft of editing and support the work of editors.
Opendemia
Stores notes on sources, helps to create works cited pages and in-text citations as well as auto-generate citations in various formats. There is a free version. $10 a year for no ads and more citations allowed per project.
OttoBib
Chrome extension for citing books using an ISBN. Formats include MLA, APA, AMA, and Chicago. Free.
Paperpile
Chrome extension to search and cite books using Chicago. Automatically creates a citation for a book searched in Amazon. Free.
Purdue Writing Lab
Writing and formatting help.
SuperSummary Academic Citation Resources
Links to style guides, FAQs, tutorials, quizzes, sample papers, and tools to help students' citation and research processes.
Zotero
Cite sources directly in a Word or Google document in thousands of formats. Organize your research by tagging sources with keywords and saving them to collections. Free.