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Citation Generator
Build a basic APA-style and MLA-style citation from an author, title, and year you provide — a simple 3-field formatter, not a full citation manager.
How to Use Citation Generator
- 1Enter Author, Title, Year separated by commas
- 2View the generated APA and MLA citations
- 3Copy the one you need and add any missing publisher/source details
Frequently Asked Questions
Comma-separated: Author, Title, Year — e.g. "Smith, J., The Great Book, 2020". Missing fields fall back to generic placeholders like "Author, A." or the current year.
No — this is a simple 3-field (author/title/year) formatter. There's no separate handling for publisher, journal name, volume/issue, URL, or DOI, so it isn't a substitute for a full citation manager like Zotero or a style-specific generator for edge cases.
Because publisher isn't one of the 3 collected fields — the word "Publisher." is a fixed placeholder in the APA-style output regardless of the actual source, so you'll need to manually replace it with the real publisher name.
Both an APA-style line and an MLA-style line are generated together from the same 3 fields, so you can copy whichever your assignment requires.
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