How it works
Add each source as a row with authors, title, publisher, year and URL. The generator outputs the full list in your chosen style - markdown for web articles, APA/MLA/Chicago for academic work, IEEE/Vancouver for technical and medical, and BibTeX for LaTeX pipelines. Copy the whole block into your article's references section.
Why well-formed references matter
- Confidence boost. Assistants check for a reference list before quoting a page - it flags the content as sourced.
- Clean parsing. Consistent formatting lets the retrieval layer match authors and publishers to its entity graph.
- Year signals. A visible year per reference is a recency anchor the model can use when comparing sources.
- Cross-format output. One input, nine outputs - re-use the same source list across web, academic and technical pieces.
Pair with
Use the Citation Builder for per-claim inline citations, the Source Formatting Tool to clean raw source text before you paste, and the Citation Schema Generator to wrap the whole list in schema.org markup. Background: how AI assistants choose citations.