Chicago Citation Generator

Paste DOIs and copy references in Chicago Manual of Style, 18th edition.

Paste one or more DOIs and the tool formats them in Chicago Manual of Style, 18th edition using the official Citation Style Language style, with metadata from Crossref, PubMed and OpenAlex. You can switch to any other journal style on the same page.

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Questions

What does a journal article look like in Chicago style?

For the AlphaFold paper the generator gives: Jumper, John, Richard Evans, Alexander Pritzel, et al. “Highly Accurate Protein Structure Prediction with AlphaFold.” Nature 596, no. 7873 (2021): 583–89. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2.

How do in-text citations work in Chicago?

Chicago notes and bibliography style puts a numbered footnote in the text and the full source in the note: John Jumper et al., “Highly Accurate Protein Structure Prediction with AlphaFold,” Nature 596, no. 7873 (2021): 583–89. Pick Chicago author-date under Change if your field uses (Jumper et al. 2021) instead.

How many authors do I list in Chicago?

In the bibliography, list up to 6 authors. With 7 or more, list the first 3 followed by et al.

How do I cite a DOI in Chicago?

Paste the DOI, one per line, and press Continue. The generator reads the publisher's Crossref record and formats it in Chicago Manual of Style, 18th edition. Paste up to 50 DOIs to build a whole reference list.

Can I format for a specific journal instead?

Yes. Press Change above the results and search by journal name or abbreviation. The list covers more than 10,800 journal styles from the Citation Style Language repository used by Zotero and Mendeley.

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