About
AllCitations is a free citation generator built for students and researchers who need reliable references without paywalls.
AllCitations exists to make accurate academic citations free and accessible for everyone. Whether you are a first-year undergraduate writing your first research paper or a doctoral candidate managing hundreds of sources, you deserve a tool that formats your references correctly without charging you for it.
We build and maintain a citation generator that supports over 30 citation styles, including APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE, Vancouver, Turabian, and many more. You can paste a URL, DOI, or ISBN and get a correctly formatted citation in seconds. Citations can be exported to BibTeX, RIS, or Word for use in any reference manager or word processor.
Beyond the generator itself, we publish detailed guides on our blog that walk through citation rules for every major style. These guides are written by our team with direct references to the official style manuals, so you can learn the rules and catch errors on your own.
Most citation tools on the market lock essential features behind paywalls. Exporting your bibliography, citing certain source types, or even using the tool more than a handful of times often requires a subscription. Students - the people who need citation tools the most - are the least likely to be able to afford them.
We built AllCitations to be different. Core citation generation, formatting, and export features are free. No registration required. No limits on how many citations you can create.
Citation formatting is governed by detailed rules published in official style manuals like the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, the MLA Handbook, and the Chicago Manual of Style. Our citation engine is built on these primary sources, and we update it when new editions are released.
We also cross-reference our output against real-world examples from university writing centers, published style guides, and official errata. When style manual publishers clarify ambiguous rules, we incorporate those clarifications into our formatting logic.
Have a question, suggestion, or bug report? We would love to hear from you. Visit our contact page to send us a message.
Free, accurate, and easy-to-use citation generator for students and researchers worldwide.
