Citation Generator

No. There is no network request anywhere in this page, so it cannot fetch metadata and it never sends your source details to a lookup service. You type what is on the title page or the article header. The trade-off is a little more typing in exchange for a tool that works with the connection off and leaks nothing about what you are reading.

Because the clipboard receives plain text, and plain text has no way to carry italics. The formatting shown on screen tells you exactly which words need italicising — the book or journal title — so apply it by hand in your word processor after pasting. Nothing else about the reference changes.

Notes and bibliography, the system used in history and the humanities. You get the bibliography entry and the numbered footnote form. The author-date system used in the sciences cites much like Harvard and its bibliography entries are punctuated differently, so check which one your department asks for before using these.

No, deliberately. APA wants sentence case for the title of a book or article and MLA and Chicago want title case, but no program can reliably tell a proper noun from an ordinary word, and lowercasing someone's name is a worse error than an over-capitalised title. Type the title the way your style needs it and it is used exactly as typed.

It differs by style, which is the rule most often got wrong. APA lists up to twenty names in the reference and switches to "et al." in the text from three authors, while MLA switches from three in both. Chicago is two rules rather than one: a footnote shortens to “et al.” from four authors, while the bibliography entry lists every author up to ten and only past ten gives the first seven followed by et al. IEEE lists up to six. All of it is handled from the same set of names you typed once.

Yes. There is no account, no daily cap, no file-size tier and no watermark, because there is no server cost to recover. The site is funded by clearly disclosed partner recommendations on the Partners page, never by metering the tools.

No. Everything is processed by JavaScript running in your browser, on your device. You can verify it: open your browser's developer tools, switch to the Network tab, and use the tool. You will see no request carrying your data — because there is nowhere for it to go.