Free Chicago Citation Generator
The Chicago Manual of Style supports two systems: notes-bibliography and author-date. This generator outputs the author-date system, most common in the sciences and social sciences.
About Chicago (17th Edition)
The Chicago Manual of Style supports two systems: notes-bibliography and author-date. This generator outputs the author-date system, most common in the sciences and social sciences.
Example Chicago citation format
Once you paste a DOI above, you'll see an example formatted in Chicago style. The same data can be rendered in APA, MLA, Chicago or Harvard with a single click.
When to use this style — and how to get it right
The Chicago citation generator outputs author-date references that comply with the 17th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style, the format used in history, the social sciences and many academic book manuscripts. In-text citations look like (Smith 2024, 42) and the bibliography is alphabetised by author. Need notes-bibliography (footnotes) instead? Each reference still copies as a clean source you can drop into a footnote.
Typical searches: Chicago author-date generator, Chicago book citation, Chicago journal article reference, Chicago 17 bibliography for a thesis, Turabian citation generator.
Frequently asked questions
Is this Chicago generator free?
Yes. The Citation Generator is free to use. You only need to sign up if you want to save citations into a Project.
Where does the data come from?
We query Crossref, the largest open registry of scholarly DOIs, and render the output through the official Citation Style Language.