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This tool follows current official style guide conventions (APA 7th edition, MLA 9th edition, Chicago 17th edition author-date, and Harvard/Cite Them Right). Always double-check unusual sources - like sources with no author, no date, or multiple editors - against your institution's specific requirements, since some departments use slightly modified conventions.

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This tool handles individual citations. If you want every citation in your paper checked against your actual sources and formatted consistently, our editors do that as part of a full editing pass.