How do I cite a website?

Enter the page title, author (if any), the site name, the URL, and the publication and access dates, then pick BibTeX, APA, or MLA. This generator formats the citation instantly. To skip the typing, the ClipCite browser extension reads those fields from the page automatically.

Is this citation generator free?

Yes. It runs entirely in your browser, needs no account, and shows no ads. It is made by ClipCite, a browser extension that captures quotes and citations while you read.

Free citation generator

Paste a DOI or fill in a web page's details, and get a ready BibTeX, APA, or MLA citation. No sign-up, no ads. Everything runs in your browser.

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How to cite a website

A complete web citation needs five things: who wrote it, when, the page title, the site name, and the URL. MLA also wants the date you accessed it. The tricky part is that most pages hide these in their metadata, so people copy the URL and lose the rest. Fill the fields above once and this generator formats them into BibTeX, APA, or MLA for you.

BibTeX, APA, or MLA — which do I use?

BibTeX: for LaTeX / Overleaf. You paste the entry into your .bib file and cite it with \cite{key}. Web pages use @misc; journal articles use @article.
APA 7: most common in the social sciences, education, and the health fields.
MLA 9: the default in the humanities.

Need the edge cases (no author, no date, archived pages, GitHub repos)? See our guide on how to cite a website in BibTeX and APA citation for a web page.

Frequently asked questions

How do I convert a DOI to BibTeX?

Paste the DOI into the From a DOI tab. The generator fetches the publisher's own record from Crossref and returns a ready @article entry, plus APA and MLA. More detail in our DOI to BibTeX guide.

Is it really free?

Yes. No account, no ads, nothing leaves your browser except the DOI lookup to Crossref. It's built by ClipCite, a browser extension for capturing quotes and citations as you research.

Can it fill the fields automatically?

This page is manual by design so it works for any source. To capture the author, date and title automatically from the page you're reading, install the ClipCite extension. One click gives you the quote and the citation together.