Referencing & Citation Help
Referencing is the cheapest grade you will ever recover. It is mechanical, it is worth real marks, and almost nobody checks it properly. Our tools are free and unlimited — no account, no paywall.
Short answer
What is referencing & citation help?
Referencing help covers generating correct citations, checking an existing reference list against the official style manual, and fixing in-text citation errors. The most common causes of lost technical marks are missing in-text citations for paraphrased ideas, inconsistent author formatting, and reference lists that do not match the in-text citations.
Our free generators cover Harvard, APA 7, MLA 9, Chicago 17, Vancouver, OSCOLA, IEEE and AMA.
What you get
Included in every engagement
- Free citation generators for eight styles, with no sign-up
- Reference list audit against the official manual for your style
- In-text citation check: every claim that needs a source, sourced
- Paraphrase attribution review — the single biggest cause of accidental plagiarism
- Similarity report interpretation, so you can fix causes rather than chase a percentage
- Style migration when a module switches you from Harvard to APA mid-degree
How it works
The process
Generate
Use the free tools for the citations you are creating as you write.
Audit
Send us the finished list and we check it line by line against the manual.
Reconcile
We match in-text citations to the reference list in both directions and flag orphans.
Learn
You get the three rules you keep breaking, so next assignment you do not need us.
Coverage
Referencing styles
- Harvard
- APA 7
- MLA 9
- Chicago 17
- Vancouver
- OSCOLA
- IEEE
- AMA 11
- MHRA
- McGill Guide
Frequently asked questions
Are your citation generators really free?
Yes — unlimited, no account, no card. They exist because they are genuinely useful and because students who trust our free tools sometimes become tutoring clients. That is the whole business model.
Which Harvard should I use?
There is no single Harvard. Cite Them Right, Leeds Harvard, Coventry Harvard and AGPS Harvard all differ. Always use the guide your own institution publishes — our tool lets you pick the variant.
Does a citation generator count as cheating?
No. Citation formatting is clerical work, and universities supply these tools themselves. What matters academically is that you read and understood the source you are citing.
How do I fix a high Turnitin similarity score?
Find what is matching. Quoted material that is properly cited is fine. The problems are uncited paraphrase, over-quotation, and recycled work of your own. Fix those causes; do not chase a number.
Localised
Referencing by country
- Referencing in AustraliaAGLC4 is the Australian law standard and one of the most technically unforgiving styles in use anywhere.
- Referencing in United KingdomOSCOLA for law and Cite Them Right Harvard dominate UK institutions, and they are the two we get asked to audit most.
- Referencing in New ZealandAPA 7 is the default across most New Zealand universities, with the NZ Law Style Guide for law papers.
- Referencing in CanadaThe McGill Guide governs Canadian legal citation, alongside APA 7 and MLA 9 elsewhere.
- Referencing in United StatesAPA 7, MLA 9 and Chicago 17 cover most US coursework, with AMA 11 in health sciences and Bluebook in law.
By country
Referencing in the five markets
Same teaching, different rules. Each market sets its own referencing conventions and has its own regulator, and the law on what a service may provide is not the same in all five.
| Country | What is different there | Common referencing | Integrity regulator |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | AGLC4 is the Australian law standard and one of the most technically unforgiving styles in use anywhere. | APA 7, Harvard (AGPS) | TEQSA — Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency |
| United Kingdom | OSCOLA for law and Cite Them Right Harvard dominate UK institutions, and they are the two we get asked to audit most. | Harvard (Cite Them Right), OSCOLA | OfS — Office for Students · QAA academic integrity charter |
| New Zealand | APA 7 is the default across most New Zealand universities, with the NZ Law Style Guide for law papers. | APA 7, Harvard | NZQA · Universities New Zealand |
| Canada | The McGill Guide governs Canadian legal citation, alongside APA 7 and MLA 9 elsewhere. | APA 7, MLA 9 | Institution-level academic integrity offices (no federal statute) |
| United States | APA 7, MLA 9 and Chicago 17 cover most US coursework, with AMA 11 in health sciences and Bluebook in law. | APA 7, MLA 9 | ICAI — International Center for Academic Integrity · institutional honor codes |