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Citation Help

This guide explains MLA, APA, ASA, and Chicago Style citations.

Try these quick & easy citation-specific tools!

Just need a quick citation? Try these if you're citing fewer than 10 sources.

QuillBot Citation Generator
Search by title, URL, DOI, ISBN, or keywords to generate a citation, or cite manually by filling in the blanks. Use the dedicated APA, MLA or Chicago generators.
ZoteroBib
A free service to help create a bibliography in any citation style.
Grammarly Citation Generator
Fill in the blanks to cite in APA, MLA, or Chicago styles.

AI-Powered Large Language Models

These tools generate human-like text to answer questions or write documents based on user-provided prompts.
Find out more with our quick explainer chart on our Ethical AI research guide.

Use these power tools for big projects

For large or long-term projects, try one of these tools. You'll most likely need something this type of powerful tool for honors or research-based classes and when you move up to be a junior or senior.

Mendeley
A free reference manager and an academic social network. Includes a web browser plug-in to quickly add research results directly from your search.
Zotero
A free easy-to-use research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources and then share the results of your research.
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Automatically senses content in your web browser, allowing you to add it to your personal library with a single click. collects all your research in a single, searchable interface. You can add PDFs, images, audio and video files, snapshots of web pages, and really anything else. Zotero automatically indexes the full-text content of your library, enabling you to find exactly what you're looking for with just a few keystrokes.

Cite AI-Generated Content

Instead of citing AI-generated answers, best practice is to find corroborating sources. However, if you do cite an AI answer in your work, here's the pro guides to doing it correcty.