Citation Formatter — APA, MLA and Chicago bibliography — OnePassApps
Format manually entered books, web pages and journal articles using supported APA 7th, MLA 9th and Chicago 17th bibliography style subsets.
Citation Formatter builds an alphabetised bibliography from source details you enter yourself. It supports standard authored books, ordinary web pages and journal articles using limited, versioned subsets of APA 7th, MLA 9th and Chicago 17th bibliography styles. It does not look up sources or invent missing authors, dates, publishers or other metadata.
What you can do
- Enter personal or organisational authors and supported publication, container, DOI, URL and accessed-date details.
- Preview and edit saved entries, switch styles and resolve any newly required source fields.
- Copy text, download text or HTML, print a bibliography, and export JSON for an editable backup.
Limitations
- The session supports 100 sources and up to ten authors per source. It excludes in-text citations, notes, legal sources, editors, translators and editions.
- Chicago uses notes-and-bibliography bibliography formatting, not author-date. Check institutional requirements and unsupported cases yourself. Leaving or reloading clears the session unless you export a backup.
Is Citation Formatter free, and do I need an account?
Yes, it is free. Citation Formatter runs in your browser with no account or payment details, and it never uses OnePassApps credits.
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