Citation Generator
A citation generator turns a source's title, author, and publication details into a correctly formatted bibliography entry and in-text citation. This tool covers seven styles — AMA, ACS, IEEE, Turabian, CSE, ASA, and Vancouver — using the same open Citation Style Language engine that powers Zotero. Formatting itself runs entirely in your browser; searching by title, DOI, or ISBN sends that query to a public lookup service (OpenAlex, CrossRef, Open Library, or doi.org), while pasting a URL sends it to Akmon's own page-lookup service. Prefer not to search? Enter the details by hand instead.
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Every academic discipline has its own citation style, and mixing them up costs points on a paper or gets a manuscript sent back by a journal editor. This citation generator exists because switching between AMA, ACS, IEEE, Turabian, CSE, ASA, and Vancouver by hand is slow and easy to get wrong. Medicine uses AMA or Vancouver, chemistry uses ACS, engineering and computer science use IEEE, history and the humanities use Turabian, biology uses CSE, and sociology uses ASA — seven distinct rule sets for the same basic job: telling a reader exactly where a claim came from. A single citation generator that covers all seven removes the guesswork of remembering which one applies.
This citation generator runs the same open citation-formatting engine that powers Zotero, entirely in your browser — nothing you search or type is sent to Akmon's servers for that step. Search by title, DOI, ISBN, or URL to pull in a match, confirm it's the right source, and this citation generator returns a correctly formatted bibliography entry plus an in-text citation example. Prefer to enter the details yourself? Skip the search, fill in the fields directly, and the citation generator still produces the same accurate output.
The seven styles this citation generator covers
Pick a style based on your discipline, journal, or instructor's requirements — this citation generator has a dedicated landing page with worked examples for each:
- AMA — medicine and health sciences.
- ACS — chemistry.
- IEEE — engineering and computer science.
- Turabian — history and the humanities.
- CSE — biology and life sciences.
- ASA — sociology.
- Vancouver — biomedicine and clinical journals.
APA, MLA, and Chicago author-date aren't covered by this citation generator.
How the search works
Type a title, a DOI, an ISBN, a webpage URL, or a few keywords into the search box. This citation generator detects which kind of query it is: DOIs resolve directly to a publisher-supplied record, ISBNs look up the book in Open Library, keywords or titles search OpenAlex's index of scholarly works (falling back to CrossRef if OpenAlex has no match), and a URL is fetched by Akmon's own page-lookup service, which reads the page's title, author, and publication date. The top few results appear as cards with the title, authors, year, and journal or publisher — click the one that's actually your source.
Search results are never inserted automatically by this citation generator, not even the top-ranked one. Academic databases sometimes return duplicate or mismatched records for the same source, so confirming the match before it's formatted avoids citing the wrong year or author list.
Why the citations are accurate
The formatting itself runs on Citation Style Language (CSL) — the same open, machine-readable style definitions that Zotero and most other reference managers use. Every field this citation generator renders (author order, italics, punctuation, date formats) comes from the style's own published rules, not from a hand-written template that can drift out of date.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which citation styles does this tool support?
Does it auto-fill from a DOI, ISBN, or URL?
Is my search or text sent to Akmon's servers?
Why does it ask me to pick a result instead of citing the first match automatically?
Can I switch styles without starting over?
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