Citation machines are online programs designed to generate citations, or entries for work cited and bibliography pages. Different websites offer slightly different citation programs which adhere to different styles. Whether citations are needed in MLA, APA, Chicago or some other format there is a citation machine to create each entry. Son of Citation Machine is the updated version of the original
Read more.... citation machine created and funded by the Landmark project. The machine generates citations, both intext and works cited page entries, in accordance with MLA (7th edition), APA (6th edition), Turabian, and Chicago style guidelines. The goal of the citation machine is to help students and professionals give credit for the research elements they use in an appropriate manner. To generate a citation, select the style you want your citations in and then enter all the relevant information including author, title, publication date, page numbers and more. After hitting enter both citations will be given at the bottom of the page. The son of citation machine is located at http://citationmachine.net/. Make citation is another citation machine available online. It is truly the most comprehensive machine on the web. It can generate citations in accordance with MLA, APA, Turabian, Harvard, Vancouver, Chicago, IEEE, ASAS and SSF styles. After selecting a citation format, a form appears at the right of the screen. This form is filled in with all the information about the source that is cited, Clicking the "make citation" button at the bottom of the form prompts the program to generate the requested citation. The limitation of the Make Citation program is that it only gives the citation needed for the works cited page or bibliography. It says in the instructions that "For in-text citation just use "last name" and year of publication example (Last Name, Year)." but this formatting is not correct for all style guides.