Citation Guides & Tips
Expert guides to help you cite sources correctly in any academic style.
AllCitations vs BibMe: Editions, Price, and Styles
BibMe's own guides still teach APA 6 and MLA 7. This AllCitations vs BibMe comparison checks editions, styles, exports, and cost.
AllCitations vs Cite This For Me: What's Actually Free
Free users get Harvard referencing only from Cite This For Me, while AllCitations covers 30 styles with no account. Costs and editions compared.
How to Use an APA 7th Edition Citation Generator
The eight checks that catch what an APA 7th edition citation generator gets wrong: sentence case, DOIs, issue numbers, author counts, and in-text forms.
How to Cite a Movie in APA 7th Edition
The APA 7 film format with worked examples: streaming originals, foreign films, TV episodes, timestamps for quotes, and the mistakes that cost marks.
Bluebook Citation Format: How to Cite in Bluebook Style
Worked examples for cases, statutes, books and websites, plus signals, typefaces and what the 22nd edition changed in Bluebook citation format.
APA Paper Format: How to Set Up Your Paper (7th Edition)
Complete APA paper format rules from the 7th edition manual: title page, running head, headings, page order, and the exact Word and Google Docs setup steps.
ACM Citation Format: How to Cite in ACM Style
Worked ACM citation format examples for journal articles, conference papers, books, arXiv preprints, and websites, plus the alphabetical numbering rule.
How to Cite a Lecture in APA 7: Slides, Notes, Recordings
Worked examples for Canvas slides, Zoom recordings, and transcripts, plus the retrievability rule that decides how you cite a lecture in APA 7.
MLA Paper Format: How to Set Up Your Paper (9th Edition)
Every MLA paper format rule from the 9th edition Handbook: margins, font, the four-line heading, running head, and title, plus exact Word and Google Docs steps.
How to Format References in APA, MLA, Chicago, and Harvard
One book formatted four ways, the page rules for each style, and how to format references in Word without faking the hanging indent.
How to Cite the CDC in APA 7: Webpages, Reports, and Data
Worked examples showing how to cite the CDC in APA 7 across webpages, MMWR articles, reports, and data sets, plus the in-text and date rules.
Leeds Harvard vs Cite Them Right: What Actually Differs
Side-by-side book, journal and website formats for Leeds Harvard referencing and Cite Them Right, with a conversion checklist between the two.