How to use the Chicago Citation Generator
- Choose the source type — book, journal article, web page, newspaper or chapter.
- Fill in the authors, title and publication details.
- Copy the reference (with italics) and the in-text citation, or add it to your reference list.
What does this tool do?
Chicago style is used in history, the arts and many publishers' house styles. This generator produces notes-bibliography entries — inverted first author, full names, place of publication and publisher — with author-date in-text citations.
In-text citations follow the Chicago pattern: (Author Year, page). Saved sources stay in your browser only; nothing is uploaded.
Why use it?
- Books, articles, web pages, newspapers and chapters.
- Copies with italics for Word and Google Docs.
- Builds a full reference list across tools.
Example
Walker, Matthew P., and Robert Stickgold. “Sleep, Memory, and Plasticity.” Annual Review of Psychology 57 (2006): 139–166.
Accuracy and limits
- Always check against your instructor's or publisher's guidelines — local variations of each style are common, and titles keep the capitalisation you type.
Privacy
The calculation happens instantly in your browser. The numbers you enter are not sent to our servers or saved. There's no account to create and nothing to install.
Last reviewed by the M2Toolkit team.