Generador de Citas
Genera una cita correctamente formateada en estilo APA 7.ª edición, Harvard, MLA, Chicago o Vancouver. Introduce un DOI para obtener automáticamente los datos de la fuente, o completa los campos tú mismo para un libro, informe o cualquier fuente sin DOI.
Nuestro equipo ayuda a formatear listas de referencias completas y a preparar manuscritos para su envío a la revista que elijas.
Cómo funciona
- 1Elige tu estilo de citación.
- 2Introduce un DOI y haz clic en Buscar, o completa manualmente el autor, el título y los datos de publicación.
- 3Haz clic en Generar Cita para ver el resultado formateado.
- 4Cópiala directamente en tu lista de referencias.
Para quién es
- ✓Elaborar la lista de referencias de una tesis, disertación o manuscrito para una revista.
- ✓Formatear rápidamente una sola fuente que estás a punto de citar en medio de un borrador.
- ✓Convertir una cita de un estilo exigido a otro.
- ✓Comprobar tu formato manual comparándolo con una referencia generada.
What Is a Citation Generator?
A citation generator takes the details of a source — an author, a title, a publication date, a journal or publisher — and arranges them into the exact format a given style guide requires: correct punctuation, order, italics, and abbreviations. It removes the need to memorize the many small formatting rules that differ between styles and even between source types within the same style.
Consistent citations matter because they let a reader trace every claim in your work back to where it came from. A missing page number, a wrongly ordered author list, or an inconsistent reference list can make a paper look careless even when the underlying research is sound, and it can blur the line between your own analysis and material you're drawing from someone else. Formatting citations correctly is one of the simplest ways to keep that line clear.
Choosing the Right Citation Style
Citation styles exist because different academic communities prioritize different information. APA (7th edition) emphasizes publication date, which suits fast-moving fields like psychology and the social sciences where recency matters. Harvard, a similar author-date system, is widely used across business, education, and many UK and Australian universities. MLA favors page numbers and author names inline, reflecting the humanities' focus on close reading of specific passages in literature and language studies. Chicago offers both a notes-and-bibliography format favored by historians and an author-date format used more broadly, giving it flexibility across history and some social sciences. Vancouver, a numbered citation system, is the standard in medicine and many biomedical journals, where compact in-text numbers keep dense scientific writing readable.
If you're unsure which to use, check your assignment brief, your department's style guide, or the target journal's author guidelines — that will settle it faster than general convention.
DOI Lookup vs Manual Entry
A DOI (Digital Object Identifier) is a permanent identifier assigned to most journal articles, and it links directly to a record in CrossRef's database containing the author list, title, journal, volume, issue, and publication date. When you have a DOI, lookup is almost always the faster and more reliable option — it pulls those details automatically and avoids typos or misremembered author orders that creep in when copying information by hand.
Manual entry is necessary whenever a DOI doesn't exist or isn't registered, which is common for books, government or institutional reports, websites, news articles, theses, and older or non-journal sources. In those cases you'll need to enter the author, title, publisher or site, and date yourself. It's worth double-checking whatever a lookup returns against the actual source page too, since database records occasionally have gaps or errors of their own.
Why Accurate Citations Matter
Citing sources correctly is how academic writing gives credit to the people whose research, data, or ideas you're building on. It's also what allows a reader — a professor, a peer reviewer, another researcher — to find the original source and check it for themselves, which is a basic part of how scholarship holds itself accountable.
This is a completely normal and expected part of writing at any academic level, not a sign of a paper's weakness. But a well-formatted citation only reflects the source correctly if you've actually read and understood it; formatting is not a substitute for engaging with the material itself, and no tool can verify that the citation matches your own understanding of what the source says. Getting the format right takes one kind of care; using sources honestly and accurately takes another, and both are needed.
Preguntas frecuentes
De CrossRef, el registro público estándar que las editoriales utilizan para registrar metadatos académicos: los mismos datos en los que se basan la mayoría de los gestores de citas.
Utiliza los campos de entrada manual: los libros, informes y muchas fuentes antiguas o que no son revistas no tienen DOI, y la entrada manual funciona para los cinco estilos de citación.
Sí. El formato automático es un excelente punto de partida, pero compara siempre el resultado con la guía de estilo específica de tu institución o revista antes de enviarlo.