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CITATION FORMATTER

Research plan · Citations

View an example formatted reference list

How does citation formatting work?

  1. 01Paste in the messy references

    Drop your whole reference list in — out of order, uneven punctuation, English/Japanese/Chinese mixed; the tool parses each one.

  2. 02Pick the target format

    Choose one of APA / MLA / Chicago / Vancouver; selecting it highlights the matching official style-guide link on the right.

  3. 03Reformat by the rules

    The tool rebuilds each entry to the target format's rules — author separators, year position, punctuation, numbering — handling Japanese and English entries by their own rules, using only the facts you gave.

  4. 04Copy the result

    Output is one entry per line, ready to copy as a consistent list, with the official guide linked for your final pre-submission check.

WORKFLOW

Citation formatting workflow

4 steps

From choosing a citation style and pasting your list to a one-entry-per-line result you check and copy.

  1. 1Choose the citation styleAPA / MLA / Chicago / VancouverDone
  2. 2Import the reference listPaste the list while keeping its current order and contentCurrent step
  3. 3Apply the formatting rulesParse each entry and rebuild it in the selected style“Import the reference list” not filled in yet
  4. 4Review and copy the resultCheck the one-entry-per-line output before copying“Apply the formatting rules” not filled in yet
Official manuals
  • APA 7th apastyle.apa.org
  • MLA 9th style.mla.org
  • Chicago 18th chicagomanualofstyle.org
  • Vancouver NLM nlm.nih.gov
1

Choose the target format

Picking one lights up its manual on the right and shows that style's official entry below.

APA 7th · journal article entryPublication Manual 7th ed. · apastyle.apa.org
EN

Watson, J. D., & Crick, F. H. C. (1953). Molecular structure of nucleic acids: A structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid. Nature, 171(4356), 737–738. https://doi.org/10.1038/171737a0

JA

Itō, Y., Sagara, J., Ikeda, M., & Kawaura, Y. (2003). Shukanteki kōfukukan shakudo no sakusei to shinraisei, datōsei no kentō [Reliability and validity of Subjective Well-Being Scale]. Shinrigaku Kenkyū, 74(3), 276–281. https://doi.org/10.4992/jjpsy.74.276

Japanese sources: the title is transliterated (Hepburn, sentence case) with an English translation in square brackets; the journal name and volume are transliterated and italicized, while the bracketed translation stays roman. The original script never appears in the entry.

2

Paste your references

Mixed EN/JA/ZH, out of order, uneven punctuation — all fine; each entry is parsed.

Drop a file, or click to chooseSupports Word (.docx), text-based PDF, TXT and Markdown. Text is extracted locally into the editable field below.
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Senpai tips

Still hand-typing author, title, volume and pages into little boxes, then matching the punctuation by eye?

Old citation generators make you break every reference into author, year, journal, volume, pages, and DOI — one box at a time. Slip on a single comma or drop a space and that entry is off. But you already have the information; what's missing is just the step of turning a messy format into a consistent one. Paste it all in, pick the target format, and let the tool do the rest.

Pick the style the program or journal requires

standards are not interchangeable.

Japanese and English sources differ

name order and joining marks change under one style.

Do not guess a missing author, year, or page

mark the gap and go back to the source.

Cross-check in-text citations against the list

orphan entries get noticed first.

Disambiguate same-author, same-year works

order the list by rule, not by habit.

Mark secondary citations honestly

listing a source you never read shows up fast.

Formatted result

Formatting only unifies the layout; it never invents missing fields.

Paste your references first, then pick a format.

APA 7th · nothing pasted yet