InfoGuides: Citation Information: Online/Free Citation Generators

Last Updated: Apr 1, 2024 10:26 AM

Online/Free Citation Generators

There are several free, online citation generators. Some are better than others! We recommend the following:

RIT Library highly recommends the new, free, ad free site, BibGuru, and provides a helpful infoguide that will assist you in learning about its many tools.

With BibGuru you can:

Search for website, article, and book sources and add them to a bibliography with one click.
Add citations for more than 60 other source types.
Create bibliographies in APA, MLA, and thousands of other citation styles.
Export your citations as a Word file or copy them into Google Docs.
Sign-up to save your citations and organize them into projects and folders.

Bibme
Bibme 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.
Knight Cite
KnightCite is a free site that automatically produces MLA, APA, and Chicago style citations for 25 different sources. Developed at the Heckman Library at Calvin College.
Citation Machine
Citation 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.