Free Online Bibliography Generator

1. Pick your citation style: APA, MLA or Chicago.
2. For each source, choose a type, fill in the fields and click 'Add to bibliography'.
3. Watch the list build and re-sort alphabetically by author surname.
4. Switch styles any time to re-format the whole list, then 'Copy all' into your document.

A bibliography (called a Reference List in APA or Works Cited in MLA) is the alphabetised list of every source a paper draws on, placed at the end of the document. Where a single citation tool formats one source at a time, a bibliography generator manages a whole set: you add each source once, and the tool keeps them together, sorts them and re-formats them as a group.

All three major styles — APA, MLA and Chicago — alphabetise entries by the first author's surname and apply a half-inch hanging indent, where the first line sits flush left and subsequent lines indent. They differ in the details each entry shows and in punctuation, which is why this tool lets you switch styles instantly: enter your sources once, then toggle between APA, MLA and Chicago to see the entire list re-formatted without re-typing anything.

Keeping the bibliography consistent is what graders and editors check first, so the value of a generator is uniformity across dozens of entries. The hanging indent itself is applied in your word processor — paste the list into Word or Google Docs, select it, and set a 0.5-inch hanging indent. Add, remove and re-sort sources freely; everything stays in your browser and is never uploaded.