Chicago 18th edition (notes and bibliography) references and footnotes from a DOI, ISBN, URL or title, with the rules explained. Export the list to Word.
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Paste a DOI, an ISBN, a link or a title and the tool finds the publisher's own record for it and formats it in Chicago 18th edition (notes and bibliography) — the notes system used in history, art history, classics, theology, philosophy and much of publishing. The bibliography entry and the footnote come together, and the rules are those of the The Chicago Manual of Style, 18th edition (2024), published by the University of Chicago Press. The 18th edition was published in September 2024; the 17th (2017) is still widely in use and is also in the style picker.
The manual's Q&A and the Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide at chicagomanualofstyle.org show the note and bibliography forms side by side for each source type.
Three steps, about twenty seconds a source.
A DOI, an ISBN, a PubMed or arXiv ID, a web address, or a title. Chicago is already selected on this page. The tool works out what you pasted and asks the right catalogue — Crossref, OpenLibrary, PubMed, DataCite or Semantic Scholar — for the record.
Each source gets a card showing what the catalogue held and what the tool changed to fit Chicago: a DOI reduced to its bare form, a page range tidied. Every change can be undone with one click if the record was right as it was.
Copy the list with its formatting into Word or Google Docs, or download a .docx with the hanging indent and spacing already set. BibTeX, RIS and CSL-JSON exports carry the same data into Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote or LaTeX.
The rules the tool applies, from the The Chicago Manual of Style, 18th edition (2024).
Six real sources — two journal articles, a book, a chapter, a web page and a conference paper — formatted by the same engine that runs the generator above. Nothing here was typed by hand, so what you see is what you get.
AI Writing Assistant. “Free AI Writing Tools: What Each Does and When to Use It.” AI Writing Assistant. Accessed September 18, 2026. https://www.aiwritingassistant.net/tools.html.
Footnote: AI Writing Assistant, “Free AI Writing Tools: What Each Does and When to Use It,” AI Writing Assistant, accessed September 18, 2026, https://www.aiwritingassistant.net/tools.html.
Golder, Scott A., and Michael W. Macy. “Diurnal and Seasonal Mood Vary with Work, Sleep, and Daylength Across Diverse Cultures.” Science 333, no. 6051 (2011): 1878–81. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1202775.
Footnote, citing page 1880: Scott A. Golder and Michael W. Macy, “Diurnal and Seasonal Mood Vary with Work, Sleep, and Daylength Across Diverse Cultures,” Science 333, no. 6051 (2011): 1880, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1202775.
Grice, H. Paul. “Logic and Conversation.” In Syntax and Semantics, Volume 3: Speech Acts, edited by Peter Cole and Jerry L. Morgan. Academic Press, 1975.
Footnote, citing page 45: H. Paul Grice, “Logic and Conversation,” in Syntax and Semantics, Volume 3: Speech Acts, ed. Peter Cole and Jerry L. Morgan (Academic Press, 1975), 45.
Kahneman, Daniel, Jack L. Knetsch, and Richard H. Thaler. “Anomalies: The Endowment Effect, Loss Aversion, and Status Quo Bias.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 5, no. 1 (1991): 193–206. https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.5.1.193.
Footnote: Daniel Kahneman et al., “Anomalies: The Endowment Effect, Loss Aversion, and Status Quo Bias,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 5, no. 1 (1991): 193–206, https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.5.1.193.
Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 4th ed. University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Footnote, citing page 12: Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 4th ed. (University of Chicago Press, 2012), 12.
Vaswani, Ashish, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, et al. “Attention Is All You Need.” Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 30, 2017, 5998–6008.
Footnote: Ashish Vaswani et al., “Attention Is All You Need,” Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 30, 2017, 5998–6008.
Five errors markers see most often, and what the tool does about each.
Chicago has two systems. If your department wants notes and bibliography, an in-text (Kuhn 2012, 12) is the author–date system and will be marked as the wrong one. The author–date variant has its own page.
The place of publication was dropped in the 18th edition. Older guides and generators still print it.
Since the 17th edition the manual prefers a shortened citation — Kuhn, Structure, 14 — to ibid., and the tool prints shortened forms.
A note uses commas and natural name order; a bibliography entry uses periods and inverts the first name. Copying one form into the other is the commonest Chicago error.
Chicago gives the bare number: (University of Chicago Press, 2012), 12. Neither notes nor the bibliography use p. or pp.
If your handbook names one of these instead, its page opens the generator with that style selected.
Same manual, different system: the citation goes in parentheses as (Kuhn 2012, 12), and the reference list moves the year to just after the author. Sciences and social sciences that use Chicago usually use this one. Open the Chicago Author–Date page.
MLA also serves the humanities but cites in parentheses by page, with no notes and no year in the text. Open the MLA page.
Yes. Every style, every source type and every export is free, with no account and no daily allowance, because the formatting runs in your browser rather than on our servers. Your list is saved in this browser and never sent to us.
The 18th edition (2024) is the default here. The 17th edition, which some departments have not yet moved from, is in the style picker as Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition (notes and bibliography); the visible differences are the publisher's place, which the 17th still gives, and a few rules on capitalisation.
Chicago cites in footnotes rather than in parentheses. A superscript number in the text, and a footnote or endnote with the same number carrying the citation. The tool prints the full footnote under each entry in the bibliography pane, and the export keeps it.
Paste the address and the tool reads the page's title, author, site name and date where the page declares them, then formats it. The Chicago form of a web page with an organisation as author and no date is: AI Writing Assistant. “Free AI Writing Tools: What Each Does and When to Use It.” AI Writing Assistant. Accessed September 18, 2026. https://www.aiwritingassistant.net/tools.html. Check the author and date on the card — pages often leave them out, and the style has a rule for each case.
Yes. Your sources are stored as data, not as formatted text, so choosing another style in the picker re-formats the whole list at once — APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE, Vancouver, or any of the 10,000 Citation Style Language styles the picker searches.
From the The Chicago Manual of Style, 18th edition (2024), published by the University of Chicago Press, as encoded in the open Citation Style Language style the tool uses. The manual's Q&A and the Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide at chicagomanualofstyle.org show the note and bibliography forms side by side for each source type. Where your department's own guide differs on a detail, the department's guide is the one your marker reads.
Check the essay's grammar, tighten the wording, or summarise a source before you cite it. One plan covers every tool.
Each page opens the generator with that style already selected, shows what the tool prints for six real sources, and explains the style's rules. The picker above the list reaches more than 10,000 styles in all.
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