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Chicago citation generator.
Chicago 18 bibliography, free.
Fill in what you know about your source and copy the citation, italics included. There are no ads and no account.
Your citation
In text:
How it works
What a Chicago bibliography entry looks like
Book: Kahneman, Daniel. Thinking, Fast and Slow. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
Journal article: Watson, James D., and Francis H. C. Crick. “Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids.” Nature 171, no. 4356 (1953): 737-38.
This generator writes the bibliography entry. Footnotes aren’t included, and the in-text form it shows is author-date. Chicago uses title case, so capitalize the main words yourself. Check the result against your source before you hand it in.
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Questions
Before you start.
Does it make Chicago footnotes?
No. It writes bibliography entries and an author-date in-text citation. Footnotes use a slightly different format, so check your instructor’s rules if they’re required.
Do I need the city of publication?
Not in the 18th edition, which no longer requires it. If your instructor still uses the 17th, fill in the optional City field.
What if my source has no author or no date?
Leave those fields empty. The title moves to the front. Look for an organization name first, since it can count as the author.
Will the italics paste into Word or Google Docs?
Copy citation is built to keep the italics. If your editor loses them, italicize the title by hand.
Is anything I type saved?
No. The citation is built in your browser and what you type isn’t stored.
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